Job summary
Team Lead Family Therapy - Band 7
22.5 hrs per week / permanent role
Our Family Therapy team is growing and therefore we are looking for someone who is interested in leading the team. It is a passionate team who thoroughly love working with CYP and their families to help resolve mental health issues. The team delivers family therapy as well as family work and NVR support to parents/carers. We also offer training options to workers wanting to develop their expertise and become systemic family psychotherapists.
If you're an organised, efficient and passionate worker then we want to hear from you. RISE is a family, where there is opportunities for growth, development and training.
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Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
About us
Clinical, peer and management supervision
Flexible working
Training and opportunities to develop
Peer support with other Team Leads, inc away days.
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior supervisory level
- Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children's field - mental health, neurodevelopment, learning disability
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Strong understanding of national policy in relation to health services for children and young people
- Good interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Demonstrable capability to plan over short and medium term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to champion a more effective use of technology within the service and new ways of working
- Ability to positively motivate staff
- Ability to manage poor performance
Experience
Essential
- Experience of implementing new pathways of care
- Demonstrable experience of driving service improvements
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding
- Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure team performance or quality
- Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context
Other
Essential
- Ability to work throughout the CWPT geography as required for specific projects or CWPT wide developments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior supervisory level
- Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children's field - mental health, neurodevelopment, learning disability
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Strong understanding of national policy in relation to health services for children and young people
- Good interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Demonstrable capability to plan over short and medium term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to champion a more effective use of technology within the service and new ways of working
- Ability to positively motivate staff
- Ability to manage poor performance
Experience
Essential
- Experience of implementing new pathways of care
- Demonstrable experience of driving service improvements
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding
- Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure team performance or quality
- Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context
Other
Essential
- Ability to work throughout the CWPT geography as required for specific projects or CWPT wide developments
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
