Job summary
Are you a motivated individual, with a background in inpatient MH / CAMHS experience looking for a new challenge?The Croft child and family unit provides intensive assessment and treatment for children up to 13 years of age with complex mental health and developmental concerns. The unit is family focussed and also provides parenting capacity assessments and intensive parenting interventions.We have a full time Ward manager vacancy, due to internal promotion, therefore are looking for a motivated ward manager to provide positive and compassionate leadership to support our team in providing high quality care to our patients. You will need to have strong role modelling behaviours and organisational skills; promoting growth and development of staff to support retention, while providing operational management to a specialist in-patient and day patient unit.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the care pathway for children and families at The Croft from referral to discharge. To include; ensuring effective communication with families, referrers and external agencies, the management of commissioning arrangements, bed management and case load management for the team.
You will need to ensure that all children and families have high quality comprehensive and collaborative care plans that include evidence-based assessments and interventions and address risks, while taking overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the unit, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and in line with NICE guidelines, QNIC and CQC standards.
You will lead a team of clinical staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision, appraisal and mandatory training takes place while co-ordinating positive multidisciplinary working, maintaining excellent communication and working relationships with all team members, and other services within the Trust, to ensure effective interface and continuity of care between disciplines and services.
About us
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To manage the care pathway for children and families at The Croft from referral to discharge. To include; ensuring effective communication with families, referrers and external agencies, the management of commissioning arrangements, bed management and case load management for the team.
- To have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the unit, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- To lead a team of clinical staff in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision, appraisal and mandatory training takes place.
- To ensure that all children and families have high quality comprehensive and collaborative care plans that include evidence-based assessments and interventions and address risks.
- To ensure the programme of assessment and therapeutic activities is maintained and developed to a high standard, is evidenced based and in line with NICE guidelines, QNIC and CQC standards.
- To oversee and support the teams management of clinical risk and to offer advice and guidance when necessary.
- Support the clinical team to create accurate documents of their observations and assessments to a standard that could inform child protection procedures. To ensure that for each child a discharge report is created that provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment.
- To ensure that systems that operate for staff support and supervision are maintained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To manage the care pathway for children and families at The Croft from referral to discharge. To include; ensuring effective communication with families, referrers and external agencies, the management of commissioning arrangements, bed management and case load management for the team.
- To have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within the unit, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- To lead a team of clinical staff in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision, appraisal and mandatory training takes place.
- To ensure that all children and families have high quality comprehensive and collaborative care plans that include evidence-based assessments and interventions and address risks.
- To ensure the programme of assessment and therapeutic activities is maintained and developed to a high standard, is evidenced based and in line with NICE guidelines, QNIC and CQC standards.
- To oversee and support the teams management of clinical risk and to offer advice and guidance when necessary.
- Support the clinical team to create accurate documents of their observations and assessments to a standard that could inform child protection procedures. To ensure that for each child a discharge report is created that provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment.
- To ensure that systems that operate for staff support and supervision are maintained.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Nursing
- Current registration with the NMC
- Post-graduate qualification or significant experience related to child, adolescent or family mental health.
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Training in supervision
- Physical intervention training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in an intensive service with children and/or families.
- Good understanding and experience in delivering clinical and management supervision.
- Experience and understanding of performance management
- Experience, knowledge and training in management and leadership.
- Experience, knowledge and training in research and audit, service evaluation
- Comprehensive understanding of the MHA, children's Act and safeguarding
Desirable
- Experience of leading change.
- Experience, knowledge and training in policy and service development.
- Understanding of and evidence of implementing least restrictive practice
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to organise, lead and motivate others from a range of disciplines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to produce accurate coherent reports that maybe used in child protection proceedings.
- Ability to remain calm and rational in difficult, challenging and distressing circumstances.
- Ability to manage capability and disciplinary issues within the staff team effectively.
- Ability and vision in developing personal and professional practice of self and others in relation to unit needs and government and trust policy.
- The motivation and ability to ensure the highest standards of clinical practice.
Desirable
- Willingness and enthusiasm to get involved in physical activities with children in order to provide a role model for parents e.g. swimming, football, kite flying.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- An understanding of team and organisational dynamics.
- Knowledge of implementing MHA in practice
- An excellent working knowledge of current legislation related to this area including the Children Act 1989, and the Human Rights Act.
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with child protection concerns and procedures.
Desirable
- Understanding of child development and developmental disorders.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to undertake Physical interventions
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Nursing
- Current registration with the NMC
- Post-graduate qualification or significant experience related to child, adolescent or family mental health.
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Training in supervision
- Physical intervention training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in an intensive service with children and/or families.
- Good understanding and experience in delivering clinical and management supervision.
- Experience and understanding of performance management
- Experience, knowledge and training in management and leadership.
- Experience, knowledge and training in research and audit, service evaluation
- Comprehensive understanding of the MHA, children's Act and safeguarding
Desirable
- Experience of leading change.
- Experience, knowledge and training in policy and service development.
- Understanding of and evidence of implementing least restrictive practice
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to organise, lead and motivate others from a range of disciplines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to produce accurate coherent reports that maybe used in child protection proceedings.
- Ability to remain calm and rational in difficult, challenging and distressing circumstances.
- Ability to manage capability and disciplinary issues within the staff team effectively.
- Ability and vision in developing personal and professional practice of self and others in relation to unit needs and government and trust policy.
- The motivation and ability to ensure the highest standards of clinical practice.
Desirable
- Willingness and enthusiasm to get involved in physical activities with children in order to provide a role model for parents e.g. swimming, football, kite flying.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- An understanding of team and organisational dynamics.
- Knowledge of implementing MHA in practice
- An excellent working knowledge of current legislation related to this area including the Children Act 1989, and the Human Rights Act.
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with child protection concerns and procedures.
Desirable
- Understanding of child development and developmental disorders.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to undertake Physical interventions
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Croft Child and Family Unit
Block 21 Ida Darwin
Fulbourn, Cambridge
CB21 5EE
Employer's website
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
