(CAMHS) Team Leader - Single Point of Access | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experiencedCAMHSPractitioner to join Rochdale CAMHSSingle Point of Access Team (SPOA) 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 thatCAMHSGetting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment fromCAMHSaccess it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity. You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Rochdales Single Point of Access. Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough. You will be responsible for the coordination and allocation of consultations to Locality Mental Health Practitioner (LMHPs) ensuring a service is provided to professionals in a timely manner enabling young people to receive the right support, at the right time, from the right practitioners. Provide management and clinical supervision to the LMHPs 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 Rochdale 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.

Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:

• Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
• Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
• Good understanding and commitment to theCAMHStransformation agenda
• Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
• Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice