Team Manager

Job summary

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Team manager who is passionate about working with children and young people who are experiencing enduring mental health difficulties to ensure that safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high-risk population.Young people accessing the service are typically experiencing enduring mental illness such as depression, anxiety disorder, neurodevelopmental disorder or emotional difficulties and behaviour such as self-harm, suicidal feelings.

The post holder will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the CAMHS Generic team. This includes ensuring high quality, safe and responsive interventions are provided to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, who are referred to the team.

The post holder will operate as a member of the Bromley CAMHS management team and will assume a lead role in the development of the Generic team /service.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder must balance their responsibilities as a manager for both the operational and clinical elements of team activity while ensuring young people and parents/carer are at the centre of all decision making. They must ensure that views and contributions from all relevant professionals are taken into consideration when applying organisational standards to the team and facilitate effective mechanisms to resolve issues where different perspectives are present.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team providing a high-quality service within the resources available.

• Provide evidence based high quality service

• To provide effective management of young people in the community

• To provide a safe, effective service that prioritises young people and their families and puts them at the centre of every aspect of the service.

• To provide a service where equality, diversity and inclusion underpins care and operational policy; ensuring young people and their families cultural, religious, and spiritual needs are considered.

• To provide a seamless and consistent service through the use of a multidisciplinary team.

• To be able to effectively manage an emotionally demanding workload often under pressure and involving multiple stakeholders who may present with high expressed emotion and increased service pressures.

• To ensure that staff maintain accurate clinical records and electronic records safely and to a high standard, and that they are stored and accessed appropriately.

• To provide a well-led and responsive service that values staff, supports them through supervision, provides training opportunities and career development.

• To work as a member of the senior management team for the service and to participate in working groups or service development forums to develop policies, protocols, or guidelines relevant to the multidisciplinary / multi agency clinical team.

• To co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the operational and service manager.

• To play a key role in formulating and implementing service objectives.

• To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope, taking responsibility for the use of resources within the team, ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness and contribute to budget setting exercises and consulting with line management regarding anticipated over/under spending.

• To undertake service audit and evaluation within the team and to involve clinical and non-clinical team staff within a quality improvement framework.

• To work closely with Trust and external senior management and other professional colleagues to ensure high quality and effective service provision.

• To work with other partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies.

• Deputises for operational as and when required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration
• Educated to Degree level

Expereince

Essential

• At least 3 years experience of working in CAMHS

Desirable

• Experience and managing or supervising staff

Skills

Desirable

• Experience of leading staff through change