Job summary
Accountable for:
Management and delivery of the Children's and Young People's (CYP) Management Services for NHFT, ensuring high quality, effective and efficient care for patients in receipt of CYP Mental Health Services from the Trust.
Delivery of integrated, seamless pathways across the Trust and partner organizations for patients primarily managed within the CYP Mental Health Services.
Overall operational management of the CYP Mental Health Services: -
o CAMHS Connect
o Core CAMHS
o CAMHS Crisis
o Intensive Outreach Team
o CAMHS Inpatient
o Children's Eating Disorders Team
o Paediatric Psychology
There is significant change and investment across CYP Mental Health Services to reflect a landscape of rising referral numbers and levels of acuity. The joining up of Community CAMHS services/Crisis/Intensive Outreach and Inpatient has never been more vital. A key element of the role will be monitoring and responding to surges in all of the areas to ensure safe, effective and person-centered care throughout the CAMHS journey.
Main duties of the job
To ensure effective and mutually beneficial partnership working within the accountable areas, all other Trust services and with external stakeholders to deliver continuous improvement and maximize the health outcomes of the populations/s served.
To work with medical, and other multi-disciplinary team colleagues, to ensure that resources are used, and allocated, to their maximum efficiency.
To deliver against all performance indicators for the accountable areas, ensuring that all contractual obligations are met
To provide effective and inspirational leadership to the accountable areas to achieve quality, clinical effectiveness and successful services
To provide and develop a positive working environment and open culture which fosters high morale and commitment amongst all staff and promotes their wellbeing, professional and personal developments
To ensure that services are developed in line with population needs, service demand and agreed national and local priorities
To be accountable for the direct delivery of clinical care across all services within CYP Mental Health Services
To maintain a high profile and visible role as a leader and champion of Quality. The post holder will be an exceptional individual who can influence, lead, support and motivate staff at all levels.
To work closely with corporate colleagues to ensure, there is appropriate liaison and facilitate prompt issues response.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse or ANP oQualification or significant Mental Health experience oEducated to Master's degree Level, working towards, or relevant equivalent experience
Desirable
- oRecognised Management Qualification/Be able to demonstrate a range of management experiences across a range of teams
Experience
Essential
- oSenior NHS Management experience within Mental Health Services and line management responsibility for multi-disciplinary teams oExperience of delivering cost improvement programmes oExperience of engaging with and incorporating patient/user views into the provision of services oImplementation and management of successful change/quality/practice development projects
Desirable
- oExperience in clinical governance, risk management and service improvement oExperience of developing teams/others oDemonstrate a good level of understanding of performance/compliance oExperience of conducting negotiations relating to complex matters with other senior managers both internal and external to the organisation
Behaviours
Essential
- oApproachable and accessible to colleagues and across the organisation. o Maintain and exhibit a professional approach to work acting as a role model for other staff in terms of standards of behaviour and conduct. oAbility to work in a flexible way and respond to change. oAbility to work in a fast paced and challenging environment. oReliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style with all team members, fostering this culture across the team. oLeading, motivating and inspiring the team on a daily basis, bringing all team members together in providing high standards in the provision of recruitment advice and leading further progression of the recruitment service.
Desirable
- oEncourage others to make decisions with application of knowledge and skills. o Ability to demonstrate independence of thought. o Ability to work effectively in periods of hostility and/or hostile environments.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oSkills in Information Management and Technology to support reporting and analysis. oAble to reason, including the ability to analyse, interpret, evaluate and draw assumptions from data and information. Able to utilise complex information to identify solutions by undertaking a comparison of a range of options oAbility to demonstrate excellent verbal communication skills, adjusting language, style and content as appropriate to the audience. This includes highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there may be barriers to understanding and will include understanding of non-verbal communication
Desirable
- oEffective written communication skills,oAble to plan, prioritise, meet deadlines and manage own workload, oAbility to delegate as appropriate. oIs emotionally resilient ,oAble to deal with conflict and issues of poor performance in an effective and non-confrontational manner
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse or ANP oQualification or significant Mental Health experience oEducated to Master's degree Level, working towards, or relevant equivalent experience
Desirable
- oRecognised Management Qualification/Be able to demonstrate a range of management experiences across a range of teams
Experience
Essential
- oSenior NHS Management experience within Mental Health Services and line management responsibility for multi-disciplinary teams oExperience of delivering cost improvement programmes oExperience of engaging with and incorporating patient/user views into the provision of services oImplementation and management of successful change/quality/practice development projects
Desirable
- oExperience in clinical governance, risk management and service improvement oExperience of developing teams/others oDemonstrate a good level of understanding of performance/compliance oExperience of conducting negotiations relating to complex matters with other senior managers both internal and external to the organisation
Behaviours
Essential
- oApproachable and accessible to colleagues and across the organisation. o Maintain and exhibit a professional approach to work acting as a role model for other staff in terms of standards of behaviour and conduct. oAbility to work in a flexible way and respond to change. oAbility to work in a fast paced and challenging environment. oReliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style with all team members, fostering this culture across the team. oLeading, motivating and inspiring the team on a daily basis, bringing all team members together in providing high standards in the provision of recruitment advice and leading further progression of the recruitment service.
Desirable
- oEncourage others to make decisions with application of knowledge and skills. o Ability to demonstrate independence of thought. o Ability to work effectively in periods of hostility and/or hostile environments.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oSkills in Information Management and Technology to support reporting and analysis. oAble to reason, including the ability to analyse, interpret, evaluate and draw assumptions from data and information. Able to utilise complex information to identify solutions by undertaking a comparison of a range of options oAbility to demonstrate excellent verbal communication skills, adjusting language, style and content as appropriate to the audience. This includes highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there may be barriers to understanding and will include understanding of non-verbal communication
Desirable
- oEffective written communication skills,oAble to plan, prioritise, meet deadlines and manage own workload, oAbility to delegate as appropriate. oIs emotionally resilient ,oAble to deal with conflict and issues of poor performance in an effective and non-confrontational manner
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).
Additional information
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).
