Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for 1 Band 5 Primary Mental Health Workers (CAMHS clinician) in the Central locality of Northumberland . This post 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 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 an enthusiastic clinician who are committed to delivering innovative and transformational ways of working, to build on our successful core offers and involvement in a 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 Childrens 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.

Main duties of the job

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

With a strong emphasis on partnership working, this role will include building strong links with a range of universal, targeted and specialist services. The role will provide support to the senior clinicians and universal services through the delivery of consultation models and 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 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.

To find out more information on the role of the primary mental health work role, please find some additional information on the links attached:

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/media-centre/news-and-blogs/blogs/day-life-primary-mental-health-worker#63665aff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxbz9OEBsmw

About us

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Nursing Registration
• Professional qualification ie: Qualified Nurse, O.T, Psychologist, social worker or a level 6 or above qualification appropriate to CAMHs eg, counseling, CYP IAPT or equivalent level of knowledge and or experience - such as qualified teacher status with post qualifying qualification / experience in children's mental health
• Registered Mentor. Mentorship Qualification, relevant equivalent qualification or an expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period).
• Degree in relevant subject

Desirable

• Specialist Post registration qualification in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Evidence of leadership skills

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashington Family Hub

Alexandra Road

Ashington

NE63 9EF

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319-6597256IO