(CAMHS) Team Leader

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Oldham CAMHS Transitions Service and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities. You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.

You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity. You will work across all CAMHS age groups with a special interest in older adolescents.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Oldham CAMHS.

Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough.

Provide management and clinical supervision to the Mental Health Practitioners within the service.

Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.

Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.

Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.

Children's mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Oldham benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery.

We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.