Team Lead Children in Care Pathway and Audit and Outcome Lead

Newham CAMHS is a multi-disciplinary team with a Care Pathway model of service delivery. The team consists of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Specialist Mental Health Nurses, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists, Family Therapists, Creative Therapists and Administrative staff who are committed to developing innovative and effective ways of working. This is a busy, interesting, and varied job working with children in care their families and social workers.
The Pathway sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Pathway and has ready access to other specialist pathways in the clinic where needed, including the Neurodevelopmental Pathway and the Adolescent team as well as other agencies within Newham, Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Please also see attached the job description for full details related to the role., The post holder will be accountable to the E&B Clinical Team Leads for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, and quality and performance standards. They will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measurable outcomes for children and young people and their families. The Team Lead will deputise when necessary for the Clinical team leads in both teams and coordinate the delivery of service across the Children in Care Pathway as well as providing specialist supervision, consultation, training and direct clinical interventions in both this team and in the Emotional and Behavioural team.
The Team Lead will provide highly specialised knowledge and skills to the Children in Care pathway, carrying out complex assessments and treatment of a variety of clinical presentations, including substantial systemic liaison and co-ordination using specialised assessment tools appropriate to their discipline. Your remit will be to provide consultation and also good quality, comprehensive assessments, evidence based interventions and treatment packages to young people who present with particular difficulties within LAC settings.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated Highly Specialist Mental Health Worker with a passion for working with young people within Children in Care settings. You will be Leading the Children in Care Pathway which provides consultation to the LBN LAC Team with a small capacity to do direct work with young people and their families. There is also an opportunity to develop the consultation model for use with complex cases known to LBN but not in care. LBN & CAMHS have a well-established and effective partnership which facilitates opportunities for joint working and co delivery of community based interventions. The post holder will lead on audit and outcomes for the service.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.