Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Provider Collaborative
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-CORP-838
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Armstrong Way
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inc HCAS (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Bed Manager
Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
The North West London (NWL) Children and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) Provider Collaborative (PC) is a formal partnership between West London NHS Trust (Lead Provider) and Central North and West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). We are looking to recruit to an initial a Clinical Bed Flow Manager to manage and link with the Patient Flow Service. The scope of the role will initially cover CAMHS T4 inpatient beds, but may also be expanded in the future to include additional clinical specialisms.
The Clinical Bed Flow Manager will be responsible for the oversight of all North West London inpatient beds and to ensure the safe admissions for CAMH’s patients and will take the lead in ensuring that analysis on bed usage, patient flow and demand and capacity for admissions is understood, that data is collated and that trends are mapped and communicated to provider collaborative partners with responsibility for these areas.
Main duties of the job
You will provide management and clinical support and supervision to the Patient Flow Team with a particularly focus on ensuring that you develop excellent communication skills with all inpatient wards, Team Leaders, clinicians and Medical staff where the NWLPC have young people placed. This includes within beds inside and outside the system.
You will be accountable for their decision making and take responsibility for ensuring admissions are made to an appropriate environment with the safety of the patient, carer and staff member as paramount.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse or other registered health or social care professional.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership & Management Qualification
- CIPD Certificate in Training Practice or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- An appropriate level of post qualified experience to post graduate level.
- Experience of Crisis and Risk Management
- Experience of promotion of the Recovery Model.
- Experience of providing professional leadership within clinical services
- MDT working.
- Clinical supervision and application.
- Adherence to Health and Safety policies.
- Caseload/workload Management.
- Provision of clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of variety of clinical Areas.
- Experience of Positive Risk Taking and WRAP.
- Knowledge of data systems and IT
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
- Organisational and time management skills.
- Leadership & Delegation skill
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to adapt to adapt working to changing programme need
- Flexibility and accountability.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
- Regular requirement to concentrate and to work under constant pressure, high frequency of phone calls and the need to manage capacity and Excellent inter-personal and communication skills with good listening skills;
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to ensure robust governance processes are agreed and in place
- Ability to produce structured work, and deliverables,
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ginny Birrell
- Job title
- Collaborative Quality & Governance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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