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Job summary

Main area
Children & Young People
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Opportunity)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
277-6240959-CYP-A
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bexley CAMHS
Town
Erith
Salary
£56,388 - £62,785 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

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Team Manager

Band 8a

Job overview

12 Month Fixed Term Contract or  Secondment Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Bexley Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services for a dynamic and motivated individual to join our leadership team in the role of Team Manager. 

The post holder will be provide effective management and leadership to the Bexley CAMHS Cedar Team.

Bexley CAMHS has recently gone through a restructure, and is now working in alignment with Thrive principles. The post holder will need to ensure that clinical work within Cedar team is in accordance with the Thrive approach. 

The Cedar team is part of an integrated service, and works in close partnership with Bexley Social Care, and local education providers to provide specialist mental services to children and young people with complex needs, within a THRIVE Framework.

The post-holder will work in alignment with Thrive principles and ensure that clinical work within Cedar Team is in accordance with the Thrive approach.

The post-holder will also be required to work collaboratively with other Team Managers and liaise closely with the clinical leads, to ensure consistent and equitable access, clinical effectiveness, a positive and co-produced service user experience and measurable outcomes for children and young people across Bexley CAMHS.

There may be a requirement to offer direct clinical care at times.

Main duties of the job

The Team Manager's main duties are listed below

  • To provide managerial and operational leadership to the designated multi-disciplinary Team, taking overall responsibility for the work undertaken within these Teams.

  • To ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP-MH / Thrive principles.

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

  • To work with system partners within the THRIVE framework to ensure CAMHS services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies. 

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

  • To work as a member of the management team for the service.

  • Be responsible for the implementation of and adherence to all corporate policies and procedures, including those for the management of staff, including recruitment, performance management & staff development, absence management, health & safety and equality of opportunity.

  • To problem solve as appropriate, developing and implementing lasting solutions in conjunction with clinical and managerial colleagues.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Management responsibilities

To be managerially and operationally responsible for all aspects of service delivery for the Team.

To develop team policies and procedures to ensure safe and consistent service delivery and development.

To manage services within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment, analysing complex issues and responding to them in a timely and effective manner.

To ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP-MH and Thrive principles. 

To be responsible for Team budgets, including identification of possible development opportunities and cost savings.

To take a leading role in the development, monitoring and review of annual service/business plans.

To be responsible for recruitment in partnership with professional leads within the service.

To ensure information systems are kept up to date and comply with Trust protocols.

To manage complaints and critical incident reporting, provide management reports and ensure learning from these events is embedded.

To establish regular, scheduled team meetings and other professional forums as required.

To deputise for the Operational Manager as required.

To offer direct clinical care as required.

Leadership

To be managerially and operationally accountable to the Operational manager for service delivery.

To manage the team’s performance against commissioned contracts, NICE guidance, Trust policies and activity reports.

To be responsible for team operational supervision, job planning, appraisal, and training and development.

To lead on the development, implementation and review of clinical and organisational change within the Team.

To ensure that systems for training, mentoring and coaching are in place.

Clinical

To ensure team conducts effective clinical risk assessments, use Care Pathways to enable care planning, including CPA and conform to Trust case management protocols.

To ensure referrals to the team are allocated or redirected and discharged according to Trust procedures.

To offer direct clinical care as required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Management Qualification
  • Educated to, or working towards master degree
  • Professional Registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Team Management
  • CAMHS Experience
  • Experience of working in mental health setting
Desirable criteria
  • Worked with LDND children
  • Worked with LAC

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Leadership of clinical staff
  • Communication with external stakeholders
  • Leading staff through change

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Maddy McCarthy
Job title
Operational Manager Bexley CAMHS
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07990 393761
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