Professional Lead CAMHS Nursing & Quality (Mental Health & LD) Band 8a
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
We are seeking a highly experienced nurse with strong professional skills, knowledge and values to professionally lead our nurses and provide a CAMHS Quality lead role. This is a key position in CAMHS, with the opportunity to make a difference from the point of direct care to children through to board level, advocating for and supporting the nursing team through out. You will join us at an exciting time of service transformation as we strive to develop and enhance our offer to give children the best possible outcomes.
Key elements of the role include:
- Professional Lead for Nursing across the CAMHS teams of Gloucestershire, which accept referrals from a wide range of multi-agency partners.
- Quality Lead role to support the CAMHS quality agenda, including quality improvement, safeguarding assurance & oversight, clinical practice assurance & oversight
- Provide clinical input and expertise within cross county CAMHS Clinics regarding specific disorders as part of routine job plan.
- Being a member of a CAMHS service with strong values that actively works to promote the wellbeing of our staff team and sustain a positive culture
- Opportunities to develop your highly specialist clinical and managerial skills through training, profession specific support and development supervision and personal coaching initiatives.
Main duties of the job
- The opportunity to develop highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills with a leading CAMHS provider,
- The challenge of complex and varied work within an integrated multi agency team
- A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts.
- Be a dynamic, enthusiastic, supportive and inspiring leader in line with our trust values.
- Supervise and mentor nurses to successfully deliver their roles and achieve their career goals and encourage the next generation of our workforce by supporting students.Close links with wider GHC Trust management and leadership and the opportunity to progress your own career pathway
- Be a forward thinking leader who engages with developments at a regional and national level to modernise and develop our services reflecting local needs and priorities
- Have experience of quality improvement and leading projects or other clinically based initiatives, with skill and confidence to offer assurance and oversight.
- Be able to use and analyse performance data to achieve service improvement and better outcomes for young people
- Have significant experience working in children's mental health services.
- Place the child at the centre of all you do and be committed to improving the delivery of evidence based treatments for children, young people and their families
About us
- Have excellent communication and engagement skills with children, families, clinicians and partner agencies
- Be a key member of our senior leadership team and support a culture in which staff are valued and well-supported and able to deliver services with care and compassion.
- Hold a relevant Professional Registration (RMHN)
We are keen to develop a more representative diversity of our senior staff and particularly encourage applications from those individuals with protected characteristics - in particular from women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ and disabled candidates.
The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust's view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.
This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.
Date posted
03 August 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£47,126 to £53,219 a year per annu,
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
327-22-859
Job locations
TBC
Horton Road
Gloucestershire
GL1 3PX
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
TBC
Horton Road
Gloucestershire
GL1 3PX
Employer's website
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