Job summary
RISE Specialist CYPMH - Band 7 Team leads
3 12-month fixed term posts contract or secondment opportunities
Coventry, North Warwickshire, and South Warwickshire
Are you a registered professional with the drive and passion to make a real difference to children and peoples mental health? Are you keen to step into a leadership role?
Rise Core Specialist mental health service has a unique and exciting new opportunity for individuals who want to develop their leadership skills to step into a leadership role for 12 months. Due to the expansion of teams within the 3 localities it has been identified there is a need for additional operational management. The role will work alongside existing team leads and will provide the day-to-day management of the team within the specified locality . You will be providing management supervision, leadership within the service and within the system around children and families.
We are looking for people to apply who have a clear passion to want to make a difference, are motivated and enthused about working with young people and families as well as having a passion to lead a multi-disciplinary team.
Please ensure that for those seeking a secondment opportunity you have referred to the secondment policy and have agreement from you manager.
Main duties of the job
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patient, team activity, performance, quality and staffing matters.
- To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Child and Family Services business unit, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce;
- To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
- Management of staff;
- Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes;
About us
We are a service that is known for being creative and responsive to the needs of our young people, who no matter what level of need to support their emotional wellbeing and mental health receive the right support as they need it.
In return we can offer: -
- Ongoing opportunities for further training e.g., Post graduate study with Reading & Coventry Universities, EMDR, systemic family therapy, ARFID training
- Protected time to support CPD and development
- Regular clinical, management supervision and appraisal
- Flexible working patterns and hours, which may include some virtual working
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Reflective practice and complex case discussion groups
- Friendly experienced MDT settings
- A chance to be part of a service with a "Good" CQC rating
- Access to leadership training and development
We are a service that has regularly attracts national funding for new and exciting developments looking at improving access for young people. You will be joining a service that values their staff and actively invests in their wellbeing, staff are warm, welcoming, and described as "the RISE family".
Job description
Job responsibilities
please see job description and person specification for detailed description of duties.
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patient, team activity, performance, quality and staffing matters.
- To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Child and Family Services business unit, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce;
- To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
- Management of staff;
- Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
please see job description and person specification for detailed description of duties.
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patient, team activity, performance, quality and staffing matters.
- To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Child and Family Services business unit, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce;
- To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
- Management of staff;
- Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes
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 analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions from combinations of qualitative and quantitative information sources and present in a concise manner.
- Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
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
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 analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions from combinations of qualitative and quantitative information sources and present in a concise manner.
- Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
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
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
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
