Job overview

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

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

Blossom team is part of an integrated CAMHS in Bexley, and works in close partnership with Bexley Children’s Services, and local education providers to provide specialist mental services to children and young people with complex needs, within a THRIVE Framework.

Interview date 22nd May 2025.

Main duties of the job

The Blossom 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 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