Bromley CAMHS Operational Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London Borough of Bromley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust invites outstanding candidates to join Bromley specialist community CAMHS as Operational Manager. You will provide senior leadership across Bromley CAMHS, designing and managing systems to ensure high-quality, safe, responsive services for children, young people and families.

The role requires extensive operational management experience and strong communication to drive THRIVE framework adherence and service improvement across partners.

Qualifications

• Degree level education is required.
• Professional qualification relevant to CAMHS (e.g. Social Work, Nursing, Clinical Psychology).
• Post qualification training relevant to CAMHS.
• Appropriate management qualification or equivalent experience in health or social care.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management of the service.
• Ensure delivery of care pathways through triage, assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
• Ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP IAPT principles.
• Lead and maintain a culture of excellence in clinical standards and safety across the team.
• Represent CAMHS within the multi-agency network to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes.

Skills

Operational management

Leadership

Communication

Multi-agency working

Change management

Planning & organisation

HR management

Financial management

Education

Degree level education

CAMHS-relevant professional qualification

Post-qualification CAMHS training

Management qualification or equivalent

Job description

We are pleased to advertise a new and exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS leadership group as Operational Manager for our Bromley specialist community CAMHS service.

As Operational Manager, you will be responsible for ensuringthe efficient and effective delivery of community CAMHS, as part of the CAMHS sub-directorate - providing high quality, safe and responsive mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals.You will work in close partnership with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within the Trust to realise our ambitious goals for Bromley CAMHS, and to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Extensive experience of operational management and exceptional leadership skills are critical to success in this role - you will need to be a strong, compassionate and convincing communicator with an energy and passion for working with children and young people and in delivering transformational change.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the Operational Manager role is to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of specialist community CAMHS - providing high quality, safe and responsive mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals.

The post holder will provide senior leadership and management to staff within Bromley CAMHS, working with senior clinical and operational leads to design, implement and manage systems and processes to ensure that services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide, local and national policies, priorities and regulatory frameworks.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that both services are provided in accordance with the THRIVE framework and core CYP IAPT principles, working in partnership with service users, partner agencies and as a part of a multi-agency system, including as a member of the Trust-wide CAMHS Leadership Group.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Provide overall management of the service

Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of care pathways through the service including triage, assessment, treatment, and discharge of children and young people with mental health problems and their families

Ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP IAPT principles

Work in partnership with Heads of Profession and other clinical leaders, to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety

Operate as a leader within the multi-agency network of childrens services in Bromley to ensure the service is delivered as part of an integrated system to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Oxleas CAMHS children and young people

Ensure the service is delivered to meet key performance targets including those relating to the local Children and Young Peoples Plan

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Degree level education
• Professional qualification relevant to CAMHS (e.g. Social Work, Nursing, Clinical Psychology)
• Post qualification training relevant to CAMHS
• Appropriate management qualification or equivalent relevant experience in health or social care

Experience

• Minimum three years experience of senior/middle operational management of clinical teams in health or social care
• Leadership in planning and implementing service development and change within a clinical / social care setting
• Inter-agency working at a management level with successful track record of influencing and maintaining good working relationships
• Managing resources at middle/senior management level
• Working effectively within the local and national political environment

Skills

• Leadership skills in managing multi-disciplinary teams with the ability to inspire and motivate staff to provide excellent care
• Skills in working effectively at a management level in a multi-agency context
• Able to anticipate, assess and analyse situations, problem solve effectively and implement solutions
• Communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with confidence in writing or verbally to a range of audiences
• Knowledge and ability to manage change effectively; bringing about cultural, operational or structural changes within the service
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet simultaneous internal and external deadlines
• Skills in managing performance, financial and HR management
• The ability to use data to maintain oversight of performance and to identify risks and areas for service improvement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.