Clinical Team Manager - Melksham
Job Description
Job summary
Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support colleagues to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.
We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team as the Clinical Team Manager andensure we are delivering outstanding services to the children and young people of the Melksham Community CAMHS catchment area. The service is based in Melksham and works with young people up to 18 years old who experience a range of difficulties associated with their mental health. You would be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.
Main duties of the job
You will hold overall management responsibility for all aspects of service delivery and operational matters for Melksham Community CAMHS. We are working towards a culture where services from across the whole system (including health, education and social care) come together and work together to deliver positive and seamless experiences of care to children, young people and families.
In this hugely important team role, you'll manage and supervise a diverse group of staff from a range of professional backgrounds, provide great leadership with enthusiasm for service transformation and determination to provide outstanding quality of care, ensuring that children and young people are kept at the heart of everything we do. You'll be responsible for coordinating and motivating the team, having robust oversight of waiting lists and working with key colleagues to ensure continuity of service.
About us
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job responsibilities
You can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role and ongoing in-house training. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.
We encourage our team managers to lead on leadership projects and provide opportunities to attend leadership training at Reading University and access to other external training as relevant to professional qualification and role. We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible workingpractices.
You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video: BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills. You will also build and maintain strong working relationships with partner agencies supporting the development of integrated care pathways and locality working.
With great communication and organisation skills, and a flexible can-do approach, you will work as an integral member of the leadership team in Melksham CAMHS and across Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire, providing management cover for other team managers as required.
The role involves contributing to the out of hours on call duty service for Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. You will join the Manager On-Call duty rota and support colleagues working out of hours who provide a first response to concerns about children and young people. The frequency of on call can vary, however, typically this means being on call one week in every 12- 15 and there is a robust system of support available from the consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.
We are very proud of our service and welcome you to come and look around and meet some of the team. For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
- Knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and how these can be applied to a CAMHS setting
- Understanding of the legal and social policy issues influencing the work environment
Qualification- Accademic/Skills/Professional
Essential
- Profession Health or Social Care Qualification
- Current professional registration with appropriate professional body e.g. NMC, HCPC
Desirable
- Management / leadership training qualification
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential
- highly extensive experience in experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness and / or learning disabilities
- Experience of leading a development or change within a service setting
- Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
- Managing, supervising, mentoring and appraising clinical staff.
Desirable
- Experience of developing practice (nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychological therapies)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address
Melksham Community CAMHS
Spa Road
Melksham
SN12 7NZ
