Team Manager | and North West NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and performance management of the work of all local CAMHS contracted services. The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led and service user and carer focused. They will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager in order to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.

• Take the lead in and actively encourage and support staff to build strong links with other providers of community resources and utilise all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients.
• Ensure that commissioning priorities of the relevant CCG and Council are adhered to and take day to day responsibility for the management and smooth running of the referral, assessment and patient allocation processes.
• Work with the Service Manager and other local senior clinicians to ensure that team performance targets are consistently met by developing and implementing improvement plans as and when necessary.
• Offer clinical assessment and intervention in line with registration, CPD and service needs.
• Ensure the appropriate and accurate use of the client information database (System1).
• Ensure the effective use of human resources, ensuring safe levels of staffing which reflect the necessary and appropriate skill mix.
• Provide assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both unit and multidisciplinary care.
• Ensure that as a member of CAMHS you are fully aware of current developments, legislation and practice in the care of children and young people with mental health problems.
• Adhere to CNWL standards in practice and conduct.
• Complete the CNWL mandatory training programme annually within directed timescales and work in line with CNWL policy and procedures at all times.
• CNWL CAMHS offers community services across five London Boroughs, with two inpatient units (Collingham Gardens for under 13-year-olds and Lavender Walk, adolescent unit) in inner London and a specialist CYP Eating Disorders Service within the all age Eating Disorders Service;
  Milton Keynes also provides CAMH services for CNWL.
• You will be expected to support the development of all staff and engage meaningfully with children & young people, families and other stakeholders to continuously improve services, ensuring clinicians work in a participatory way and that shared decision making and discussions around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are collaborative with service users.
• To find out more about working in CAMHS please  for one of our CAMHS videos.
• To provide robust People Management, Finance Management, Performance Management, Stakeholder management and successful delivery of Service specifications to ensure Children and Young People and their parents or carers receive good quality and safe service.
• To provide and/or contribute to the production of reports, information and proposals that support effective delivery of care and an integrated approach to work with colleagues at local level or through external agencies.
• To take responsibility, under the direction of the Service Manager, to achieve excellent performance for all relevant performance targets.
• To provide regular feedback on the progress/activity of the team to the Service Manager and the senior management team.

• Awareness of current developments, legislation and practice in the care of children and young people with mental health problems.
• Successful completion of CNWL mandatory training programme annually within directed timescales.
• Ability to work in line with CNWL policy and procedures at all times.

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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