Primary Mental Health Team Lead
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2025 |
| Location: | Blyth, NE24 1DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9319-25-0694 |
Summary
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.