Primary Mental Health Team Lead

Integrated Care System; Blyth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System is seeking a Primary Mental Health Team Lead in Blyth, focusing on leading and supervising mental health clinicians to ensure quality and patient safety. The role involves overseeing service delivery for children and young people, managing clinical cases, and fostering collaboration among agencies. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and professional registration, with experience in mental health care and leadership. This full-time position offers flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible working

Compressed hours

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Requirement to hold a core professional qualification and professional registration.
• Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise clinicians in the PMHW and Mental Health Support Teams.
• Oversee mental health support provision in Northumberland.
• Provide clinical and case management supervision to clinicians.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Leadership

Mental health assessment

Education

Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience

Core professional qualification (1st level nurse, doctorate in clinical psychology, etc.)

Professional registration with a professional body (NMC, HCPC, etc.)

Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Recognized teaching/training qualification

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Mental Health Team Lead

The closing date is 04 August 2025

To line manage and clinically supervise the clinicians in the PMHW and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools ensuring quality and patient safety is paramount to service provision.

Support the service lead in the successful deployment of future MHST roll-outs ensuring the fidelity of the model

To work with the service lead to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.

To hold a clinical case load providing direct care to the client group.

To identify any gaps in service provision and to help to develop services to meet the needs of this client group.

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.

Main duties of the job

To oversee the delivery of mental health support provision for children and young people in Northumberland in line with the current Primary Mental Health Team and Mental Health Support Team offer and agreed clinical pathways. This includes working with partner agencies to ensure effective interface working across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland. It will also include provide supervision to clinicians in the team and working directly with children and young people providing 1:1 clinical interventions.

To work with partner agencies in relation to national drivers influencing service delivery. To ensure that the service SOPs and processes are maintained and improved to ensure patient safety and high quality care is maintained. This will include working with service senior leads in relation to service improvement and then being proactive in the implementation of an initiatives identified.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

To contribute to the development of provision at the interface of child and adolescent mental health services and schools and colleges in the trailblazer areas and liaising with other early help and prevention agencies across the boroughs within Northumberland.

To increase the awareness of the needs of this client group at primary care level through the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise using a model of consultation/liaison/teaching and training/research and development with primary care colleagues. This will also include awareness of the 3 core functions of the mental health support teams - the provision of 1:1 evidenced based interventions, consultation/ advise and signposting role and delivery of the whole schools approaches with school settings in the trailblazer areas.

To support schools and colleges and primary care colleagues in their clinical work with children and young people where they are considering making a referral into the specialist CAMHS getting more help service, the getting help Primary Mental Health Work and the mental health support teams in trailblazer schools for further mental health assessment.

To offer clinical and case management supervision to clinicians working into both the Primary Mental Health Service and Mental Health Support Teams. There will also be line management responsibilities.

To assess current services available for children and families within Northumberland and work with senior service leads and partner agencies in relation to implementation of service improvement initiatives.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience
• Requirement for post holder to hold a core professional qualification and professional registration/ i.e. 1st level nurse, doctorate in clinical psychology, qualified social worker, counselling, Occupational therapy
• Professional registration with a professional body eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP,Social Work England .
• Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
• Registered mentor if a registered Nurse or a willingness to complete this training, experience of delivery clinical supervision / CBT supervision or a qualification in supervision
• A recognised teaching and training qualification or experience of delivering teaching.
• Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality including aBABCP accredited CBT therapist / or other Psychological interventions including EMDR, CBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Full-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours