Primary Mental Health Worker

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has a number of exciting opportunities for Band 6 (Band 5) Primary Mental Health Workers (CAMHS clinicians). These posts are available due to the expansion of the early intervention and prevention offers to children and young people across the County. The role will provide targeted 1:1 and group based evidenced based interventions to support those with moderate mental health needs, within the ‘getting help sector ‘of the Thrive model.

We are looking for enthusiastic clinicians who are committed to delivering innovative and transformational ways of working, to build on our successful core offers and involvement in national trailblazer programmes. 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 01-9 family hub models.

Our staff are based in Childrens Centres and work from a number of health bases across the County ( including Blyth, Ashington, Hexham, Hadstone and Berwick) to promote closer working with our universal services and future opportunities for co-delivery of programmes.

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

As a Band 6 you will demonstrate an ability 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, 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 including access to local CYPIAPT programmes. High quality internal and external peer and individual clinical supervisions are provided.

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.

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 stigmatizing 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.