Job summary
Alliance is the leading independent provider of children and young peoples
mental health and emotional wellbeing services across Teesside.
With a dedicated, committed and enthusiastic childrens workforce of over 30
qualified therapists and trainees, supported by a growing leadership,
management and support team, we deliver quality driven evidence-based
therapies and support over 3000 children, young people, families and education
settings each year. Commissioned through various funding streams, including
Local Authoritys, schools and the Tees Valley CCG and overseen through the
Mental Health & Learning Disability Partnership we also lead on the Hartlepool
and Stockton National Trailblazer for Mental Health Support Teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for day-to-day leadership and management of teams and projects within their locality, delivering high quality evidence based psychological therapies, within an I-Thrive framework, across educational and community settings. Working within a growing leadership team, you will support the delivery and development of psychological and emotional support to improve childrens mental health. The post will also be responsible for line/case managing of Lead Clinicians within a clear management structure.
About us
This is a great time to join Alliances children and young peoples leadership
team, with childrens mental health being a national, regional and local priority
and ambitions to work more collaboratively across Tees Valley with other
leading partners, including TEWV, Education, LAs and the VCSEs is
being realised. Tees is becoming recognised as a great place to
work and partnerships proving effective in supporting positive
outcomes for children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Locality Team Manager, you will share our service vision and organisation values for understanding and meeting the different needs of individuals, families, and communities across Teesside. You will help drive forward our ambitions and vision to empower all children, young people and their families to thrive, by building upon their strengths and developing their resilience.
Leadership & Management
- Ensure the service is established within an I- THRIVE framework by developing effective relationships with wider stakeholders in education, health, social care and the voluntary, community and independent sector.
- Lead on operational plans for the service and ensure the whole team is committed to its delivery.
- Ensure the service meets the Delivering With Delivering Well standards
- Support the Service Manager in ensuring the service is meeting all contract requirements, working alongside commissioners and contract managers, including the role out of Mental Health Support Teams, by providing training, advise and consultation to Senior Mental Health Leads in educational settings.
- Provide leadership and direct line management for Lead Clinicians and ensure a shared leadership and management approach is in place across the locality.
- Ensure processes are in place for managing and reporting on performance targets and standards across the locality.
- Create a positive working environment in which the importance of equality and diversity is recognised, health, safety and wellbeing are supported and dignity at work is upheld. Ensure compliance across the locality with the Information Governance Strategy and policies.
Clinical responsibilities:
- Work with the Service Manager and Lead Clinicians to ensure all pathways are in place, maintained and regularly reviewed across the service.
- Ensure clinical risk is effectively managed across the locality including safeguarding children and young people and vulnerable adults.
- Work with the Service Manager to ensure all feedback and complaints from service users or others are properly acknowledged, considered and addressed, and any trends identified and that learning from feedback and complaints is incorporated into training and service development work.
- To hold a small clinical case load working therapeutically with children, young people and their families
- Work with Lead Clinicians to ensure effective waiting list management is in place.
- Ensure the service maintains an appropriate clinical supervision plan and workforce and when required the delivery of supervision and effective line management of the leadership and wider team.
General:
- Demonstrate the values of Alliance across the childrens, young peoples mental health and wellbeing provider partnership in daily working practices and lead by example.
- Ensure the service gathers a range of data to support service review and evaluation and meets contract requirements for record keeping and data collection
- Undertake all mandatory training required and commit to ongoing professional development.
- Participate in performance appraisal and development processes.
- Undertake any roles and activities directed by the Service Manager that are deemed necessary and appropriate with the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Locality Team Manager, you will share our service vision and organisation values for understanding and meeting the different needs of individuals, families, and communities across Teesside. You will help drive forward our ambitions and vision to empower all children, young people and their families to thrive, by building upon their strengths and developing their resilience.
Leadership & Management
- Ensure the service is established within an I- THRIVE framework by developing effective relationships with wider stakeholders in education, health, social care and the voluntary, community and independent sector.
- Lead on operational plans for the service and ensure the whole team is committed to its delivery.
- Ensure the service meets the Delivering With Delivering Well standards
- Support the Service Manager in ensuring the service is meeting all contract requirements, working alongside commissioners and contract managers, including the role out of Mental Health Support Teams, by providing training, advise and consultation to Senior Mental Health Leads in educational settings.
- Provide leadership and direct line management for Lead Clinicians and ensure a shared leadership and management approach is in place across the locality.
- Ensure processes are in place for managing and reporting on performance targets and standards across the locality.
- Create a positive working environment in which the importance of equality and diversity is recognised, health, safety and wellbeing are supported and dignity at work is upheld. Ensure compliance across the locality with the Information Governance Strategy and policies.
Clinical responsibilities:
- Work with the Service Manager and Lead Clinicians to ensure all pathways are in place, maintained and regularly reviewed across the service.
- Ensure clinical risk is effectively managed across the locality including safeguarding children and young people and vulnerable adults.
- Work with the Service Manager to ensure all feedback and complaints from service users or others are properly acknowledged, considered and addressed, and any trends identified and that learning from feedback and complaints is incorporated into training and service development work.
- To hold a small clinical case load working therapeutically with children, young people and their families
- Work with Lead Clinicians to ensure effective waiting list management is in place.
- Ensure the service maintains an appropriate clinical supervision plan and workforce and when required the delivery of supervision and effective line management of the leadership and wider team.
General:
- Demonstrate the values of Alliance across the childrens, young peoples mental health and wellbeing provider partnership in daily working practices and lead by example.
- Ensure the service gathers a range of data to support service review and evaluation and meets contract requirements for record keeping and data collection
- Undertake all mandatory training required and commit to ongoing professional development.
- Participate in performance appraisal and development processes.
- Undertake any roles and activities directed by the Service Manager that are deemed necessary and appropriate with the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Holds a counselling/psychological therapy qualification
- Holds a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (ie BACP/BABCP BAAT/UKCP/BPS)
- Holds or is willing to undertake supervision training
Desirable
- Holds a management/leadership qualification
- Is accredited with a relevant professional body (ie BACP/BABCP/BAAT/UKCP/BPS)
- Holds a CYP IAPT qualification in an evidenced based approach (HICBT, LICBT, SFP)
Experience
Essential
- A substantial amount of experience managing and leading childrens mental health/emotional wellbeing services
- Experience of collaborative working and partnership building
- Demonstrates an understanding of CYP IAPT & Mental Health Support Teams in Schools
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of Alliance children, young people and families funding routes, including referral pathways and criteria for access
- Demonstrates a full understanding of working with educational and or social care systems/organisations
- Management of risk and safeguarding
Desirable
- Previous mentoring with trainees or newly qualified staff
- Demonstrates an understanding of Alliance children, young people and families funding routes, including referral pathways and criteria for access
Other Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding and ability to lead staff qualified in a range of therapeutic approaches and willing to support the implementation of Alliance model of delivery
- Demonstrates an ability and experience of managing and advising staff on risk & safeguarding.
- Evaluation skills including the ability to identify effectiveness, appropriateness, and efficiency within services.
- Skills to manage service quality improvement
- Shows a willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of both the service and organisation
- Ability to work with an agreed caseload and manage agreed targets and performance measures
- Demonstrates an excellent understanding of childrens mental health and impact of national legislation and guidance and can articulate this to external partners
- Demonstrates the effective use of professional supervision/guidance
- Shows responsibility for continuous professional development
- A clear understanding of LSCP policies and procedures and commitment to the safeguarding of children and young people
- Experience of and willingness to undertake training and continuous professional development in a Designated Safeguarding Officers role
- Ability to discuss and share concerns and challenge professional practice.
- Demonstrates a willingness to challenge assumptions and practice and provide alternative and creative solutions
- Demonstrates commitment to the team by supporting team members through case-management and support to deliver high quality services
- Demonstrates an ability to effectively build and manage relationships with referrers both within schools and community
- Strong working relationships with Senior Leadership Teams in educational settings school leadership teams to support and maintain contracts
- Demonstrates a consistently positive attitude to working within Alliance
- Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively with children, young people and families
- Has the ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with children, young people and families
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written and the ability to understand and respond to requirements of different audiences
- Shares information, skills and practice when required
- Excellent case recording, report writing and case presentation skills
- Demonstrates competency in using Microsoft Office
- Experience in using data base systems to record sessions and notes
- Ability to produce written and verbal reports when required
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Holds a counselling/psychological therapy qualification
- Holds a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (ie BACP/BABCP BAAT/UKCP/BPS)
- Holds or is willing to undertake supervision training
Desirable
- Holds a management/leadership qualification
- Is accredited with a relevant professional body (ie BACP/BABCP/BAAT/UKCP/BPS)
- Holds a CYP IAPT qualification in an evidenced based approach (HICBT, LICBT, SFP)
Experience
Essential
- A substantial amount of experience managing and leading childrens mental health/emotional wellbeing services
- Experience of collaborative working and partnership building
- Demonstrates an understanding of CYP IAPT & Mental Health Support Teams in Schools
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of Alliance children, young people and families funding routes, including referral pathways and criteria for access
- Demonstrates a full understanding of working with educational and or social care systems/organisations
- Management of risk and safeguarding
Desirable
- Previous mentoring with trainees or newly qualified staff
- Demonstrates an understanding of Alliance children, young people and families funding routes, including referral pathways and criteria for access
Other Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding and ability to lead staff qualified in a range of therapeutic approaches and willing to support the implementation of Alliance model of delivery
- Demonstrates an ability and experience of managing and advising staff on risk & safeguarding.
- Evaluation skills including the ability to identify effectiveness, appropriateness, and efficiency within services.
- Skills to manage service quality improvement
- Shows a willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of both the service and organisation
- Ability to work with an agreed caseload and manage agreed targets and performance measures
- Demonstrates an excellent understanding of childrens mental health and impact of national legislation and guidance and can articulate this to external partners
- Demonstrates the effective use of professional supervision/guidance
- Shows responsibility for continuous professional development
- A clear understanding of LSCP policies and procedures and commitment to the safeguarding of children and young people
- Experience of and willingness to undertake training and continuous professional development in a Designated Safeguarding Officers role
- Ability to discuss and share concerns and challenge professional practice.
- Demonstrates a willingness to challenge assumptions and practice and provide alternative and creative solutions
- Demonstrates commitment to the team by supporting team members through case-management and support to deliver high quality services
- Demonstrates an ability to effectively build and manage relationships with referrers both within schools and community
- Strong working relationships with Senior Leadership Teams in educational settings school leadership teams to support and maintain contracts
- Demonstrates a consistently positive attitude to working within Alliance
- Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively with children, young people and families
- Has the ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with children, young people and families
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written and the ability to understand and respond to requirements of different audiences
- Shares information, skills and practice when required
- Excellent case recording, report writing and case presentation skills
- Demonstrates competency in using Microsoft Office
- Experience in using data base systems to record sessions and notes
- Ability to produce written and verbal reports when required
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.
