Band 8C Clinical Lead, CAMHS Services, Bristol

We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual who is passionate about children's mental health. You will be an experienced clinical leader who can hold a credible, visible clinical lead role within the CAMHS services across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. You will be approachable, empathetic, passionate about high quality care and able to lead with compassion.

You must uphold high standards of care delivery and clinical practice and high professional standards and be able to work with all disciplines in the locality as well as be confident working closely with our partners in child health, social care and the voluntary sector. This role is pivotal to delivering safe and effective services that make a difference. You will also work closely with our participation leads to ensure we keep the voices of young people, parents and carers at the heart of what we do.

You must be conversant with patient safety, quality, governance and improvement processes and methodology and how they are applied within health systems and be skilled at leading others in embedding learning and improvements in care., You will be responsible for assuring that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcome areas have been met in all registered activities in all sites for which you are responsible, assuring that all CAMHS services provide high quality and safe care to service users and families.

This involves implementing systems and processes which investigate each registered activity in each site against each outcome area and compile evidence to prove to the Board of Directors that the outcome has been achieved.

Where outcomes are not met you will be expected to put in place action to improve. You will proactively seek and engage the support of the governance team in the Clinical Executive to gather information as required.

You will build an understanding of and adhere to the CQC guidelines as well as the Trust's guidelines on the approach to maintaining CQC registration.

At AWP we are embarking on a clinical leadership review and therefore the reporting arrangements for this post may be subject to future change.

CAMHS services are embedding the iThrive model of care and are well supported by our commissioners to continue the CAMHS transformation across all services., We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

When you join AWP you join an organisation that celebrates diversity, where your wellbeing is prioritised and where you will be supported on your career path to fulfil your potential.