CAMHS Clinical Manager

Chesterfield Royal; Chesterfield; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal is seeking an experienced Clinical Manager to provide leadership and oversight for Core CAMHS services. You will line-manage CAMHS Team Leads, offer professional expertise, and drive high-quality, safe, person-centered mental health care for children and young people.

You will collaborate with CAMHS leaders and commissioners to sustain a safe, responsive service and support staff wellbeing, development, and interagency work.

Qualifications

• Management/leadership qualifications or willingness to undertake.
• Professional qualification in child and adolescent mental health.
• Registration with an appropriate regulatory body.
• Degree or equivalent experience.
• Educated to or studying at Masters level.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level professional and transformational clinical leadership and oversight of Core CAMHS services.
• Line manage the Core CAMHS Team Leads and provide professional expertise enabling high-quality, safe, person-centered mental health care.

Skills

Negotiate & influence

Target & deadline focus

Concept explanation

Education

Leadership qualifications or willingness to undertake

Professional qualification in child & adolescent mental health

Regulatory body registration

Degree or equivalent experience

Masters level education or ongoing

Job description

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Manager will be responsible for providing a high level of professional and transformational clinical leadership and oversight of Core CAMHS services.

The post-holder will line manager the Core CAMHS Team Leads and provide professional expertise which enables the delivery of high quality, safe and person-centred mental health care through the engagement and empowerment of others.

The Clinical Manager for Core CAMHS will work closely with other Clinical Managers and Senior Leaders as part of the CAMHS Leadership Team.

They will develop and maintain strong working relationships with commissioners, other service providers and trust support services to contribute to the delivery of a safe and sustainable service that meets the mental health needs of Children and Young People across North Derbyshire.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced child mental health practitioner with proven strong leadership skills who is able to lead and support our service and help us achieve our vision of providing an excellent, timely service for young people and be a great place to work.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital's vision is to be a first-class provider of sustainable healthcare services, delivering the best possible care for our patients; and being a great place to work for our people. Our Proud to CARE philosophy supports this vision - and we all play a part in achieving it, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other.

Our main hospital is on a greenfield site with abundant countryside, lovely views, beautiful landscaping and an outdoor gym - it's easy to access green space at break times which offers an opportunity to de‑stress. The hospital is easily accessible from the M1 and the A61 and the local train station is nearby.

We are passionate about sustainable transport and offer a cycle to work scheme, as well as an electric lease car scheme open to all employees. Our staff wellbeing service provides a huge range of benefits including staff counselling, access to free financial and legal advice and various support groups, fitness classes and even a staff choir! A staff wellbeing hub including a free gym for staff to use has also now opened.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Relevant management/leadership qualifications or willing to undertake
• Professional qualification in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health
• Registration with an appropriate regulatory body
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Educated to or studying at Masters level

Experience

• Significant experience of delivering mental health assessments and interventions
• Experience of change management
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of budget management
• Experience of management in a multi-disciplinary healthcare environment
• Experience of contributing to strategic development, particularly interagency developments
• Experience of managing situations concerning safeguarding, risk management, complaints and investigations
• Experience of service planning process
• Experience of service evaluation and audit
• Experience of involving users and carers in service developments
• Experience of working with a range of children and young people of different abilities and background

Skills and Knowledge

• An ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
• An ability to manage and deliver on targets and work to deadlines
• Understand and explain diverse concepts