Primary Mental Health Worker

3 weeks ago


Blyth, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for 1 Band 5 Primary Mental Health Worker (CAMHS clinicians) to work into the West of the County (based in Hexham).

This posts is available due to the expansion of the early intervention and prevention offers to children and young people across the County. The role will provide initial assessments, targeted 1:1 and group evidenced based interventions to support those with moderate mental health needs, within the ‘getting help sector ‘of the Thrive model.

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinician who are committed to delivering innovative and transformational ways of working, to build on our successful core offers and involvement in national trailblazer programme. This includes supporting the delivery of our Be You Mental Health Teams in schools’ programmes in trailblazer sites and supporting early help prevention offers within the 0-19 family hub models.

Our staff are based in Children's Centres and work from a number of health bases across the County to promote closer working with our universal services and future opportunities for co-delivery of programmes. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

We support a blended /hybrid model of office and home working to promote flexible working recognising the value of home life balance.

To support and strengthen universal provision through building capacity and capability within the extended community services partnership of staff, (e.g. Health, Social Care, Education, Voluntary sector) in relation to early identification of and intervention with children’s mental health needs.
- To promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community, in line with national and local policy and guidance.
- To provide a direct service to children, young people and their families in an accessible and non stigmatizing environment.
- Build and maintain strong links with specialist CAMHS services, promoting good quality and appropriate referrals into this service.

To find out more information on the role of the primary mental health work role, please find some additional information from 2 of our current primary mental health workers on the links attached:
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

As a Band 5 you will be supported to develop your skills to deliver a direct clinical role, providing assessment and brief evidence-based interventions to children, young people, their families and carers, in an accessible and non-stigmatising environment.

With a strong emphasis on partnership working, this role will include building strong links with a range of universal, targeted and specialist services. Support, advice and education will also be provided to a range of universal services though a telephone and group-based consultation models, the Band 5 will support Band 6s to deliver teaching and training and multi-agency forums and pathways to improve access and capacity building across the wider system.

As a Band 5 Primary Mental Health Worker you will be supervised by a Band 6 Primary Mental Health Worker. We are also committed to promoting continued professional development through access to a range of training opportunities including access to local CYPIAPT programmes. High quality internal and external peer and individual clinical supervisions are provided.



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