Job summary
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Harrow is one of the UK's most diverse boroughs and around 63,472 children and young people live here. Our 0-19 population makes up 24.3% of harrow residents (ONS, 2021), so it is especially important that we place our families at the centre of everything we do.
We are recruiting a dedicated CAMHSTeam Manager to lead on the mental health outcomes for children, young people and their families within Harrow. The postholder will the smooth running of a team, budget management and performancemonitoringof theHighly skilled workforce.Demonstrating strong a passion to the service and families grounded in the community we serve.
Maintaining stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and accounting for risks to service delivery will be key in order to ensure we are working towards our key performance indicators.
Working alongside peers from four other boroughs, our service line has a well-resourced Senior Management Team, with an assigned Service Manager and Business Manager for all service and operational needs. CNWL CAMHS pride ourselves on innovation and thinking flexibly about the care we deliver. This service is supported by virtual therapy and assessment offers via our partners Healios and Kooth.
There's a place for you at CNWL, and here's what it looks like: Harrow CAMHS
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and committed Team Manager to work alongside the Service Manager and Clinical Lead, Therapy Lead and Business Manager to support staff and to ensure service users are able to access timely and effective treatment. A strong CAMHS, mental health, and/or Children's Service clinical background is desirable but not essential for the role as this role is also suitable for a band 7 who is ready to be supported into a band 8A role. Support training and guidance will be provided to the right candidate.
You will be expected to support the development of all staff and a commitment to meaningful engagement with children & young people, families and other stakeholders to help continuously improve our services is essential.
You will need to demonstrate excellent organisation, analytical, written and inter personal/communication skills and be comfortable working under pressure, to tight timescales and making decisions on a daily basis. You will require excellent communication skills to drive progress forward and work both virtually and when able be present to colleagues and families as required.
About us
CNWL have a pioneering history of improving health outcomes in people's lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community. To find out more about CAMHS please CLICK HERE.
Staff are the heartbeat of our organisation! You'll have direct liaison with your Service Manager and Head of Service to develop your career. You'll receive monthly supervision to support bespoke training, development offers, and our leadership and development programme, see the "Staff rewards and wellbeing handbook" for more details.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and performance management of the work of all local CAMHS contracted services, including all core CAMHS teams including Adolescent and LD teams.
The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led and service user and carer focused. They will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager in order to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.
The post holder will take the lead in and actively encourage and support staff to build strong links with other providers of community resources, utilising all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients. They will ensure that commissioning priorities of the relevant ICB and Local Authority are adhered to, taking day to day responsibility for the management and smooth running of the referral, assessment and patient allocation processes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and performance management of the work of all local CAMHS contracted services, including all core CAMHS teams including Adolescent and LD teams.
The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led and service user and carer focused. They will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager in order to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.
The post holder will take the lead in and actively encourage and support staff to build strong links with other providers of community resources, utilising all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients. They will ensure that commissioning priorities of the relevant ICB and Local Authority are adhered to, taking day to day responsibility for the management and smooth running of the referral, assessment and patient allocation processes.
Person Specification
Core Competencies
Essential
- Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
- Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
- Ableto foster strong therapeutic alliances
- Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT
- Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
- Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
- Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
- Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development
- Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements
- Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
- Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team
- Experience of operationally managing or co-ordinating a team of clinicians
- Experience of developing and delivering mental health awareness and bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
- Experience of delivering training to colleagues
Desirable
- Fluent in an additional language
- Experience of operationally managing a large multidisciplinary team
- Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisal
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level training and a relevant clinical discipline
- HPC or other relevant professional registration
Desirable
- Additional training/qualifications in relevant CAMHS assessment and treatment approaches
- Management qualification
- Training qualification
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- CBT supervisor
- CYP IAPT trained
Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy,usinggood communication skills
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
- Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
- Conducts self in a professional courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
Person Specification
Core Competencies
Essential
- Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
- Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
- Ableto foster strong therapeutic alliances
- Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT
- Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
- Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
- Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
- Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development
- Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements
- Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
- Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team
- Experience of operationally managing or co-ordinating a team of clinicians
- Experience of developing and delivering mental health awareness and bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
- Experience of delivering training to colleagues
Desirable
- Fluent in an additional language
- Experience of operationally managing a large multidisciplinary team
- Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisal
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level training and a relevant clinical discipline
- HPC or other relevant professional registration
Desirable
- Additional training/qualifications in relevant CAMHS assessment and treatment approaches
- Management qualification
- Training qualification
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- CBT supervisor
- CYP IAPT trained
Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy,usinggood communication skills
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
- Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
- Conducts self in a professional courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
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
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Harrow CAMHS , Ash Tree Clinic
322 - 326 Northolt Road South Harrow Middlesex
London
HA2 8EQ
Employer's website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)
