Job summary
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust delivers the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Hampshire. Hampshire CAMHS currently have a vacancy for a band 8a Clinical Team Manager overseeing the Single Point of Access (SPA) for Hampshire CAMHS. This will be a newly created centralised SPA team overseeing the front door to CAMHS and the triaging of referrals for the service, as opposed to the area-based approach. This is an exciting opportunity to take forward the development of a new team. The team base will be Eastleigh but this is a county wide role so bases can be considered across Hampshire.
Hampshire CAMHS are looking for a leader that shares our enthusiasm, passion and commitment to work alongside colleagues to deliver a good quality timely service to young people and families in Hampshire, in collaboration with a strong supportive leadership team.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Team Manager position possess a unique crossover between clinical and operational oversight within SPA. Many of the aspects of SPA require clinical understanding and oversight, which is currently provided in the locality SPAs by the Team Lead. The Clinical Team Manager will provide line management for the senior staff within the team and clinical supervision will come from the wider CAMHS. The Clinical Team Manager would offer clinical supervision within the wider service to maintain links and integration across the service.
The Clinical Team Manager position is open to practitioners with a core professional clinical training, operationally managed by the Early Help General Manager and Clinically Supervised by associated Clinical Consultant. The team manager will need to be a transformational leader with the ability to support staff to make decisions, analyse data, and oversee the performance of the team. There will be a strong focus within the role to build relationships with partner agencies and work collaboratively across community agencies to deliver an effective and efficient provision. An understanding of health, education and social care settings would therefore be advantageous.
About us
Sussex Partnership Trust focuses on supporting staff through supervision and training opportunities and has a track record for creating strong cohesive teams where we balance the seriousness of our role with good humor and connection. The Hampshire CAMHS service, like many NHS services nationally is busy and faces challenges, with high demands on our teams. As a Trust we recognize the impact of the nature of our work and prioritise staff wellbeing, providing activities that promote the positive health and wellbeing of our staff such as arts projects and staff development. There are a number of forums each month for team managers to both meet together and with the wider leadership team from across the county.
Hampshire CAMHS have a long established history of innovative and participatory practice that fully includes those accessing our services to shape and improve it. This has led Hampshire CAMHS to achieve 5 Highly commended awards, at the national positive practice awards in 2018-2019, and we are finalists for 3 projects at the health service Journal awards in November 2019. We welcome new colleagues with ideas and initiative to be part of this success.
Hampshire CAMHS are hugely proud of all their administrative, clinical and leadership staff that work so hard and have allowed us to achieve a CQC rating of Good with Outstanding for Care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post has a responsibility for operational line management within The Hampshire CAMHS Single Point of Access. This includes direct line management responsibility for Seniors with the team but also delegated responsibility for all team members.
This post has lead accountability for the delivery of objectives outlined below:
- Provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical settings and related forums, to patients, carers and staff, demonstrating clear and effective clinical leadership and developing clinical practice.
- Ensure that the highest standards of care are aspired to and achieved within the resources available.
- Deliver effective governance, achieve performance targets, use information and data effectively to improve quality and minimize risk.
- Provide services within the agreed financial resources and achieve all financial targets, including cost efficiency savings ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
- To contribute in the planning and delivery of the expanded Early Help provision, managing change, ensuring patient focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
- Identify risk and take corrective action in line with trusts integrated governance framework.
- To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trusts key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and implementation of the CAMHS transformation agenda.
- Deputises for the General Manager and colleagues as required.
- Participate in the development of the CDS Board and CAG as required in order to facilitate clinicians/ practitioners to become involved in-service planning and decision making.
- Ensure recommendations from Serious Incidents (SIs), near misses, complaints and other incidents are implemented.
- Leads on designated projects
- Making sure children and young people referred to the service receive high quality care that includes a positive experience, coordinated care and smooth transitions, and needs relating to equality, diversity and inclusion are met.
- Ensuring staffing levels are appropriate to patient need
- Empowering clinical staff to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Facilitating the early resolution of patient problems and complaints to reduce the need for escalation and improving the experience of patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post has a responsibility for operational line management within The Hampshire CAMHS Single Point of Access. This includes direct line management responsibility for Seniors with the team but also delegated responsibility for all team members.
This post has lead accountability for the delivery of objectives outlined below:
- Provide a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in clinical settings and related forums, to patients, carers and staff, demonstrating clear and effective clinical leadership and developing clinical practice.
- Ensure that the highest standards of care are aspired to and achieved within the resources available.
- Deliver effective governance, achieve performance targets, use information and data effectively to improve quality and minimize risk.
- Provide services within the agreed financial resources and achieve all financial targets, including cost efficiency savings ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
- To contribute in the planning and delivery of the expanded Early Help provision, managing change, ensuring patient focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
- Identify risk and take corrective action in line with trusts integrated governance framework.
- To promote and display via personal actions support for the Trusts key policies on Equality and Diversity, Exemplar Employer and implementation of the CAMHS transformation agenda.
- Deputises for the General Manager and colleagues as required.
- Participate in the development of the CDS Board and CAG as required in order to facilitate clinicians/ practitioners to become involved in-service planning and decision making.
- Ensure recommendations from Serious Incidents (SIs), near misses, complaints and other incidents are implemented.
- Leads on designated projects
- Making sure children and young people referred to the service receive high quality care that includes a positive experience, coordinated care and smooth transitions, and needs relating to equality, diversity and inclusion are met.
- Ensuring staffing levels are appropriate to patient need
- Empowering clinical staff to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
- Facilitating the early resolution of patient problems and complaints to reduce the need for escalation and improving the experience of patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health or equivalent core professional health qualification - e.g. Occupational Therapist, Nurse or Social Worker
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Post qualification study to Master's level (or equivalent)
- Professional and current Registration associated with core qualification
- Leadership training
- Evidence of clinical training in a field relevant to the post eg brief psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, or systemic work.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services.
- Highly specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health.
- Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs.
- Significant level of experience working within a CAMHS or a CAMHS related field.
- To be able to recognise in children and young people a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans.
- Demonstration of personal development
- Experience working with people with serious mental health problems
- Demonstrable working knowledge of Health and Social Care governance
- Experience of staff management.
- Experience of performance management
- Experience of Risk Assessment and management
- Demonstration of collaborative working with Multi Disciplinary Team / other services.
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 2007, Mental capacity Act 2005, Care Programme Approach, Safeguarding adults and children and other relevant legislation / government developments
- Experience of modernising services without additional resources.
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services.
- Experience of project management and imaginative planning.
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi site).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health or equivalent core professional health qualification - e.g. Occupational Therapist, Nurse or Social Worker
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Post qualification study to Master's level (or equivalent)
- Professional and current Registration associated with core qualification
- Leadership training
- Evidence of clinical training in a field relevant to the post eg brief psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, or systemic work.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services.
- Highly specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health.
- Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs.
- Significant level of experience working within a CAMHS or a CAMHS related field.
- To be able to recognise in children and young people a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans.
- Demonstration of personal development
- Experience working with people with serious mental health problems
- Demonstrable working knowledge of Health and Social Care governance
- Experience of staff management.
- Experience of performance management
- Experience of Risk Assessment and management
- Demonstration of collaborative working with Multi Disciplinary Team / other services.
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 2007, Mental capacity Act 2005, Care Programme Approach, Safeguarding adults and children and other relevant legislation / government developments
- Experience of modernising services without additional resources.
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services.
- Experience of project management and imaginative planning.
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi site).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
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).
