Primary Mental Health Worker

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for 1 Band 6 Primary Mental Health Worker (CAMHS clinician) to join the Central locality based in Ashington and covering the Central locality .

The aim of this post is to expand our current early intervention and prevention service to children and young people within the County. The role will provide targeted evidenced based interventions to support those with moderate mental health needs, in the 'getting help sector 'of the Thrive model.

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinician who is committed to delivering innovative ways of working, building on the success of our PMHW core offers and our mental health in school teams across the County – both supporting our early help / prevention offers.

This posts will be based in the Family Hub in Hadston , to promote closer working with our universal services. 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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

As a Band 6 you will demonstrate an ability to deliver a direct clinical role, providing triage 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, teaching and training and multi-agency forums and pathways to improve access and capacity building across the wider system.

As Band 6 you will provide clinical and case management supervision to Band 5 Primary Mental Health Workers within the service. We are also committed to promoting continued professional development through access to a range of training opportunities. High quality internal and external peer and individual clinical supervisions are provided.

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.

To support and strengthen Universal services 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.

Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community, in line with national and local policy and guidance.

Provide a direct service to children, young people and their families in an accessible and non stigmatising environment.

Build and maintain strong links with specialist CAMHS services , promoting good quality and appropriate referrals into this service.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.