Primary Mental Health Team Lead
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 November 2025 |
| Location: | Blyth, NE24 1DX |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7532600/319-7532600LH-HAS |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To contribute to the development of provision of child and adolescent mental health services across the boroughs of Northumberland, including the development and provision of Mental Health Support Teams.
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 participate in service improvement projects to ensure the needs of children and young people are at the forefront of delivery. This will include consideration of service evaluation data and joint working with other agencies and partners across the system. Collaborative working across the emotional and mental health pathway is essential and coordination of resources to ensure efficient and equitable provision.
To support the development and continued provision of current Mental Health Support Teams and the successful deployment of future teams across Northumberland. This will involve service development and improvement projects, as well as collaboration with our partners i.e. schools, colleges, early help teams, universal services, specialist services.
To provide clinical and case management supervision to clinicians within the service, ensuring high quality care and patient safety is paramount to service provision. To contribute clinically, by way of holding a caseload of young people to which support is being offered and to support with the wider role in relation to offering advice, guidance and consultation.
To support the service leads to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources.
To identify any gaps in service provision and to help develop services to meet the needs of this client group.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of collective leadership culture within the service and Trust.
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.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025
To contribute to the development of provision of child and adolescent mental health services across the boroughs of Northumberland, including the development and provision of Mental Health Support Teams.
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 participate in service improvement projects to ensure the needs of children and young people are at the forefront of delivery. This will include consideration of service evaluation data and joint working with other agencies and partners across the system. Collaborative working across the emotional and mental health pathway is essential and coordination of resources to ensure efficient and equitable provision.
To support the development and continued provision of current Mental Health Support Teams and the successful deployment of future teams across Northumberland. This will involve service development and improvement projects, as well as collaboration with our partners i.e. schools, colleges, early help teams, universal services, specialist services.
To provide clinical and case management supervision to clinicians within the service, ensuring high quality care and patient safety is paramount to service provision. To contribute clinically, by way of holding a caseload of young people to which support is being offered and to support with the wider role in relation to offering advice, guidance and consultation.
To support the service leads to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources.
To identify any gaps in service provision and to help develop services to meet the needs of this client group.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of collective leadership culture within the service and Trust.
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.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025