Clinical Team Lead Single Point of Access - CAMHS

Job responsibilities

Consultation

The aim of the consultative role is to identify the child's mental health needs and to consider appropriate ways of meeting them in partnership with professionals already working with them. Consultation is offered through a range of initiatives, including telephone and face-to-face advice.

Liaison

The facilitation of collaboration between agencies to work towards defining the best approach to meet the mental health needs of the child. The liaison role includes networking and being a catalyst for effective multi-agency partnership working.

Training

Multi-agency training should be offered to a range of professionals in order to increase understanding of mental health issues and to consolidate existing knowledge through experimental learning, enabling them to recognise and manage child mental health problems at an early stage.

Supervision

The Team Lead will be required to provide Case Load Management to members of the CAMHS SPA Team and attend clinical supervision themselves.

Intervention

Undertake assessment of the level of mental health needs or to support the practitioner in work that they are already undertaking, or to provide education and support to partner agencies (such as social care) and carers about specific management techniques.

Direct intervention with children and families, where mental health needs have not been responsive to methods and interventions undertaken by universal professionals and the level of need is not appropriate for intervention within core extended CAMHS. Direct interventions should be tailored to the child and families identified needs. Direct work should be evidence based and drawn from a range of interventions, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy and systemic interventions.

Key duties and responsibilities.

Operational Leadership

The Team Leader will hold line management responsibilities for staff within the team and complete the appraisal process for these staff members.

The Team Leader will share in preparing and chairing the various CAMHS Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings.

To manage complaints raised by service users/stakeholders

To monitor the performance of staff via case management and clinical supervision sessions. The team leader will have a responsibility to facilitate either case management or clinical supervision sessions with the team

Financial

The Team Leader will facilitate learning and training opportunities for staff in the team.

The Team Leader will have the responsibility to effectively manage and sign off the travel claims and monthly expense claims.

Strategic

The Team Leader will take a lead on issues of service development and meeting the service specific objectives, as agreed with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

The Team Leader will help to implement the wider service objectives/strategy.

Clinical

To undertake complex mental health assessments of children and their families with a wide variety of mental health needs within a range of settings.

To plan and provide interventions for children and their carers that are evidence based.

To work alongside colleagues from other disciplines, such as social workers, support teachers, educational psychologists and other mental health professionals.

To ensure a multi-professional/agency approach to care is maintained and focused at providing the most appropriate care package for individual children and families most at risk.

To contribute to planning meetings, observations, assessments and reports relating to the post.

To ensure clear written communication with other agencies and referrers as required.

To promote clinical effectiveness using clinical protocols and guidelines.

To take the lead on developing reflective practice within the clinical area.

To attend and participate in the supervision systems, ensuring that supervision received is appropriate to the therapeutic task being undertaken.

To attend monthly CAMHS team lead meetings.

To consult and liaise with other related professionals in Education, Health, Social Services and the voluntary sector, as appropriate, on matters of mutual concern regarding CAMHS clients.

To chair both clinical and non-clinical multidisciplinary team meetings as required.

Electronic Health Record Keeping

Entering client information onto the electronic health record to include:

Entering appointments at least a week in advance within the diary section

Outcoming appointments

Creating contemporaneous progress notes

Completing risk assessments and care plans

Completing relevant reports using the naming convention procedures

Entering a provisional diagnosis where appropriate

Audit

To contribute in data collection returns of activity and clinical effectiveness in line with policies and procedures.

To take a lead in audit and outcome projects.

Continuing Professional Development

To ensure knowledge and skills are updated.

To undertake any training needs identified for professional and service development.

Professional

To ensure care is delivered in a person-centred manner ensuring the gender, ethnic, cultural and spiritual needs of service users inform practice.

To ensure children, young people and their carers/significant others are included in the planning, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of care.

To maintain registration with professional body and act in accordance with the code of professional conduct.

To act in accordance with legal requirements contained within the Mental Health Act 1983, the Children Act 1989 and other relevant legislation.

To comply with all Solent NHS Trust policies and procedures.

To participate in regular supervision systems and the Individual Performance Review.

To have knowledge of and act in accordance with Portsmouth City Safeguarding Children Boards.

To provide a service in accordance with Clinical Governance principles.

To adhere to the NHS Code of Conduct.

To ensure care is delivered to incorporate health and social care policy

Limits of Authority

May not dismiss or suspend staff under the disciplinary procedures.

May not take annual leave without prior agreement of the manager.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered social worker, nurse or equivalent
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality e.g master's degree or working towards postgraduate qualification related to CAMHS or specific treatment modality.

Desirable

• Certificate or diploma in leadership
• Practice assessor and supervisor

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable success at managing change, service development and continuous improvement
• Proven ability in making a significant contribution to the achievement of organisational objectives and key performance indicators
• Proven ability to work flexibility and to tight deadlines
• Experience of working in an autonomous role in designing the packages of care for young people presenting with sudden onset chronic and long-standing physical and mental health concerns
• Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Have experience of managing staff within a clinical environment.
• Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans
• Experienced in developing and delivering care and a range of therapeutic interventions to patients.
• Experience of early developmental trauma, mental health assessments and implementation of care and treatment plans.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources

Desirable

• Experience of managing a healthcare SPA service
• Experience of teaching and or training other professionals.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Skills
• Clinically competent at Band 7 level
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, Contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others; works within clear code of practice
• Skills in complex trauma and therapeutic treatment options.
• Problem solving skills
• Advocacy skills
• Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing/evaluating patients' conditions
• Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
• Ability to adapt to change within work situation
• There is a requirement for working in the community in a variety of settings, including patients homes.
• Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues
• Knowledge
• Has specialist knowledge across range of procedures underpinned by theory and professional knowledge acquired through post graduate qualifications plus relevant experience.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Educational Structures, National policies and frameworks
• A knowledge of and commitment to Equal Opportunities and Promoting Diversity
• Knowledge of specialist psychological and behavioural interventions children and young people
• Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
• Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
• Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional issues
• Values
• Is able to follow and demonstrate our Solent HEART values. You can find these on our website: https://www.solent.nhs.uk/about-us/our-values/
• Equality
• Be able to demonstrate and understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post
• Other
• Is able to work legally in the UK
• Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults
• Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton/Portsmouth/Hampshire as required for the role.
• For posts which require a professional registration, postholders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
• For posts where post holders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).