Clinical Team Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Children's and Young Peoples Intensive Support Function Team for an experienced/skilled and passionate Clinical Team Manager.
We are looking to recruit a Clinical Team Manager to lead, manage and support the team in providing high quality care to children, young people and their families. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the service development of the intensive support function team, and the post holder will work closely in the Children, Young People and Families (CYP) leadership team as we introduce the service across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check., The intensive support function team will provide a designated resource to reduce/manage behaviours that challenge, working with the child/young person in their own residence, reducing/preventing the need for the use of restrictive practices, inpatient services, and out-of-area/residential placements. The intensive support function team works within a Positive Behavioural Support and Trauma-Informed Framework. This service will work across Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington.
Delivery of ISF input is through four core functions of support, in collaboration with the lead clinician/care coordinator from existing CYP service provision:
a. Assessment, treatment and support for individuals who display behaviour that challenges
b. Provision of support, and person specific training for other agencies supporting those individuals
c. Supporting transitions from inpatient and other settings
d. Crisis response
The successful candidate will oversee team performance, be responsible for managerial supervision and leadership of the team, and also be responsible for clinical leadership of the team along with clinical decision making for the team., The post holder will carry managerial responsibility for Children, Young People and Families (CYP) Learning Disabilities/ Austism Spectrum Condition (LD/ ASC) Services within the Community Care Division and be responsible for the overall standards which will include referral management and access, assessment of need and delivery of care within CYP LD/ ASC Services.
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team but be expected to be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties.
The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.
The post holder will be aligned to CYP Learning Disabilities/ Autism Services and may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ensure continuity of a quality service provision.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to perfect care care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. Were currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.