CAMHS Team Leader | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

This is a excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner, who is interested in developing their managerial skills, to join us at Trafford CAMHS, as our Team Leader.

As a senior member of the multi-disciplinary team the post holder will support the service to provide safe, effective care and efficient services to meet the mental health needs of children, young people, and their families. Key aspects of the role include monitoring the performance and quality of the service the team delivers. The post holder will provide clinical leadership and effective day to day management of the team, providing generic caseload and specific supervision. You will provide line management supervision including development and maintenance of CPD needs across the team. You will act as a specialist advisor within CAMHS and to actively contribute to governance arrangements, contributing to policy implementation and service development, both within the service and across the wider network. You will undertake tasks as designated by the Service Manager and in line with Trust policy and local priorities to ensure continual quality improvement.

To provide first line management for practitioners within the CAMHS service and within this manage staffing issues and communicate complex and sensitive information relating to conduct, performance and sickness absence with in the CAMHS team in line with Trust policy and procedure

To share responsibility for the development, provision, and continued maintenance of high-quality evidence-based practice within CAMHS. This includes but not limited to, the implementation of effective systems of appraisal and supervision, standards of record keeping, supervision outcomes and modernisation.

Deputise for Service Managers as directed and for specified absence periods as needed

To keep the service manager and members of the senior leadership team informed of developments and issues within the service, ensuring the identification, recording and use of relevant performance data

Clinical

To assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload and exercise the highest standards of professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and their families/carers using specialist knowledge and evaluation of care programmes in collaboration with children, young people and their families/carers liaising with and referring to relevant agencies as appropriate.

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MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

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