Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service(CAMHS) Navigator

Job summary

This is an opportunity to work as part of a charity committed to our vision of enabling everyone in our communities to achieve better mental health. TOG Mind is a fast-paced charity delivering a wide variety of mental health and emotional wellbeing services across Tameside, Glossop, Oldham and other localities across Greater Manchester. In your role as a Community Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Navigator you will work as part of the Children, Young People and Families Directorate and will be responsible for supporting children and young people to transition from statutory mental and emotional wellbeing services, into community support to help aid their recovery, and sustain outcomes following completion of work with CAMHS.

You will be required to work closely with local CAMHS services, including being co-located within CAMHS service weekly.

You will carry a caseload of clients who you provide support to, at times and locations that support access and meet the needs of the client.

You will be familiar with the local community and emotional health and well-being services that are available for children and young people to access.

You will be responsible for the development of relationships with partners from local statutory and community-based services. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the young people you are supporting receive a package of care and support tailored to their needs that enables them to thrive in their local community.

Main duties of the job

Work as an integral part of the Children, Young People and Families Directorate to deliver services directly to members of our community.

Provide support to people within the boundaries of our services, identify any additional support and sensitively help them to access other services as needed.

Be responsible for managing a caseload of people accessing the services.

Work alongside other staff and volunteers to ensure members of our community can access the services they need.

Make decisions autonomously according to good clinical practice to ensure the safety of people accessing services and help identify areas for improvement.

Maintain professional boundaries.

Work in collaboration with partner agencies and statutory services such as CAMHS and local support services.

General duties:

Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people inside and outside the organisation.

Use IT systems including email, online systems, and Microsoft packages to record and share information.

Deliver and monitor a range of complex activities or programmes in your department.

Achieve service and project outcomes.

Work in partnership with a wide range of partners, stakeholders, and communities.

Support the organisation to devise and develop improvements in your area of expertise.

Carry out any other reasonable tasks relevant to the role.

About us

Our Vision

Enabling everyone in our communities to achieve better mental health

Our Mission

To continue to provide the best quality local mental health services in prevention, early intervention and primary care; alongside empowering individuals and our communities to live well.

We provide a wide range of services to our local communities. We provide support to individuals, groups, and families. We work with people of all ages and have a dedicated Youth in Mind team providing support to Children and Young people. We typically work with over 5,000 people per year and have consistently received feedback that over 70% of people felt their wellbeing had improved as a result of using our services.

TOG Mind is passionate about mental health and believes that:

Mental health is as important as physical health, and applies to everyone.

People are experts on themselves and our role is to work holistically to help people to help themselves.

As a charity TOG Mind occupies a special place in the landscape of mental health services. We can innovate, adapt and serve our communities in ways that others can not.

Our appetite for continuous development and improvement enables us to affect positive change.