CAMHS Team Leader

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Coventry seeks a passionate CAMHS Team Leader to manage clinical teams delivering mental health interventions for children. The role encompasses leadership responsibilities, engaging with various partners and striving for service improvements. Ideal candidates will have a degree in mental health and relevant experience in leadership and children's mental health services.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Appropriate mental health training at degree level or higher.
• Hold registration with NMC, HCPC, UKCP or PSA.
• Experience of working in children's mental health.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of responsive services.
• Make contributions to the development of an integrated workforce.
• Work collaboratively with external partners.

Skills

Leadership skills

Mental health expertise

Team management

Communication

Education

Degree in Mental Health

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

CAMHS Team Leader

The closing date is 13 October 2025

Are you passionate about improving meaningful engagement and outcomes in children's mental health? Then now is an exciting time for you to join Coventry and Warwickshire CAMHS!

As part of our realignment within a new Children's Integrated Directorate we have several permanent Team Lead posts across our teams. The Directorate brings together children's physical health, children's mental health, neurodevelopmental services and learning disability services under a single umbrella to streamline our approach and focus on the whole needs of our young people.

The roles will be for North Warwickshire (based in Nuneaton and Rugby) and Coventry, and will involve the direct line management of the clinical teams, who deliver meaningful mental health interventions with children, young people and their families.

Coventry and Warwickshire's Specialist Mental Health Service is supported by a creative and vibrant operational leadership team, and you will be supported by a passionate service manager and experienced clinical leads. We can support you with a buddy through your transition into the role, as well as a thorough induction. You will also receive regular managerial supervision and clinical supervision, if appropriate.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), 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.

Main duties of the job

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST

To support the development and delivery of services, which are responsive to needs and circumstances, at agreed levels of quality and performance.

To make a leading contribution to the development of an integrated, multi-professional workforce, as part of the transformational change programme.

To work collaboratively with other Trust services and external partners (such as social care, the acute sector and third sector organisations) to support the delivery of locally and nationally prescribed outcomes.

Contribute to the development & implementation of responses to relevant national and local policies, programmes, and initiatives.

To work collaboratively with key external stakeholders, conducting themselves in accordance with CWPT organisational principles and values at all times.

Deputise for the Service Manager at key meetings and partnership meetings, as appropriate.

Engage in leadership duties as required by the Service. For example - complaint investigations,attendance at complex multi-agency meetings to represent CAMHS.

To follow all departmental and organisational policies to support the running of the team.

About us

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.

• 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 group

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.

Job responsibilities

These include:

• A strong and supportive leadership team;
• Continual professional development and leadership skills, supported through national NHS programmes.
• Salary sacrifice for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• Many staff networks and support groups

Were 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.

Are you interested in managing demand and capacity, responding to the needs and themes of need that children and their families bring? Are you curious about patient flow and getting the best, most appropriate support to children and their families in a timely fashion? Do you want to celebrate the excellence of your team, your colleagues and our Trust though KPI delivery and strong patient feedback? Do you have strong leadership skills and think innovatively and creatively about change and excellence, with a focus on responding to the whole-child needs of children and young people?

If you answered yes to these questions, then we want to hear from you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate mental health training at degree level or higher
• Hold registration with either NMC, HCPC, UKCP or PSA

Experience

• Experience of working in children's mental health.
• Leadership experience/experience managing a clinical team
• Demonstrable experience of driving service improvements

Other

• Ability to work throughout the CWPT geography as required for specific projects or CWPT wide developments

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.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust