Head of Specialist Mental Health Services for Children & Young People

The Head of Service will play a key role in providing strong and inspirational leadership to the Children and Young People Services as part of an integrated approach across the Borough working in partnership with key stakeholders across the Children and Young peoples spectrum. The post holder will be expected to support their team, department, and organisation to achieve the organisations values in their day-to-day work.
The Head of Service will be responsible for the delivery of high quality, outcome focused services that meet the needs of the local population. The post-holder will lead the successful delivery and continuous improvement of the service to achieve agreed KPIs including the management of delegated budgets.
Individual will have effective staff management skills, and a strong, compassionate, strengths based, and transformational leadership approach to instill the organisations values and develop the integration of Children and Young People Services supported with effective transition as part of an approach to caring for children, young people and their families within the Coventry and Warwickshire.
The post-holder will provide effective, visible leadership, this includes leading locality-based teams and will therefore be expected to be work at various sites.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role., As part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated System we work to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. This strategic and partnership approach will be vital within this role to achieve quality integrated care. The Head of Service will have a leadership role and therefore work closely with the General Manager, Service Managers and Team Leads and staff groups within services, to represent the Trust as appropriate.
The Head of Service will support the delivery of a programme of change for the benefit of children, young people their families, and staff, including fostering positive relationships with partner agencies including Social Care, Primary Care, Childrens Centres, Education, Schools and Mental Health Services and the Voluntary and Community sector.
The postholder will provide robust and supportive operational management to the children and young people teams across the service to ensure the delivery of agreed priorities, that there is effective rostering and staff management, and deliver agreed KPIs.
The post holder will be responsible for the management of delegated budgets, cost effective use of resources, and the achievement of agreed cost improvement programmes.
The post-holder will be responsible for the accurate input/collation of data and service quality and delivery to meet the requirements of the contract.

NHS AfC: Band 8b
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
· generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
· excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
· salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
· discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
· wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
· staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.