CAMHS Team Leader

Are you passionate about improving mental health services for children and young people? Do you believe that children, young people and their families in Worcestershire deserve high quality interventions to match their needs? We require a RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Clinical Psychologist with the drive to join an experienced, highly motivated team of clinicians to deliver responsive and effective services? An exciting opportunity has become available to make a significant contribution to our CAMHS service as a Team Lead. The Team Lead role will be primarily supporting Worcestershire CAMHS. You will be joining the service at a time of rapid development allowing you the opportunity to support the implementation of new service offers and ways of working. Hours between 22.5 to 37.5 hours will be considered. The working pattern is between Monday Friday with service hours primarily being between 09:00 17:00, The trust offers flexible working opportunities. Based at one of the Worcestershire CAMHS bases in either Kidderminster, Redditch or Worcester City, you will be expected to travel to other sites however expenses will be covered by the trust expenses policy., You will work collaboratively with other operational and clinical leads whilst directly line managing clinical staff and leading/managing a team whilst supporting with service developments. You will share responsibility of managing waiting lists, identifying, and supporting training needs of staff, job planning, managing capacity and demand and working collaboratively with other agencies across Worcestershire to identify and support the needs of vulnerable children and those with SEND. You will support the service to be Neuro Affirming and support staff in ensuring individual needs are met. You will be a compassionate leader, supporting staff whilst being solution focused. This is an operational role although an understanding of child and adolescent health services would be beneficial.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites. We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities. What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities