CAMHS Strengthening Families Team Manager

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Bradford is seeking a dedicated professional to lead the Strengthening Families CAMHS team, focusing on child and adolescent mental health services. This role involves managing a multidisciplinary team, setting performance targets, and implementing continuous improvement strategies. The ideal candidate will possess strong operational management and leadership skills, ensuring a supportive environment for staff. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on young people's lives across the district.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Increased mileage rates

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong background in clinical management within mental health services.
• Ability to develop performance action plans and improve team outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team in providing child and adolescent mental health services.
• Set performance targets and review team progress towards goals.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment for staff.

Skills

Operational management

Leadership skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Motivational skills

Education

Relevant qualifications in mental health or related field

Job description

The Strengthening Families CAMHS team works directly into the Children and Family's Trust Strengthening Families team, working with social care colleagues to support children on the edge or care or where there are plans for reunification with their family. The CAMHS team are small multi-disciplinary, including Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and Family Therapists. The team sits under the Children in Special Circumstances Portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to lead and support change within a team that is currently undergoing transformation. Alongside the clinical leadership and service management you will lead service development, working with enthusiastic, experienced and skilled practitioners. The role requires a values-led practitioner, with strong operational management and leadership skills. You will work closely with colleagues in the management team to lead clinically led service wide quality improvement and provide a psychologically safe environment for staff to enable them to deliver the best quality care. The role will require you to lead your people and effectively communicate, being able to judge a situation and support your staff and management colleagues. You will work to ensure your teams are motivated, engaged and resourced effectively whilst supporting the strategic goals of the organisation and the objectives of your teams.

You will set performance targets and continually review progress by creating action plans to improve performance, finding solutions to problems and develop and drive continuous improvement strategies.

The post holder will provide leadership, managerial and supervisory responsibility for a group of practitioners working as a multidisciplinary team providing specialist child and adolescent mental health services.

Key Partnerships

Key partnerships include the Children and Families trust, adult mental health services, learning disability services, social care, education, consultation to Primary care colleagues, other providers of support within the Thrive Framework across the district.

This is an excellent opportunity to really make a difference to young people's lives across the Bradford District.

Core Values

• We Care – We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen – We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver – We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.