(CAMHS) Team Leader

NHS Greater Manchester; Stalybridge; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Greater Manchester is seeking an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join the Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Service. This role involves leading a community workforce to support mental health pathways for children and young people, ensuring effective service delivery and collaboration across agencies. The position offers robust supervision and development opportunities.

Benefits

Robust supervision structure

Development opportunities in psychological therapies

Access to specialist training

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Social Worker with relevant experience.
• Experience in managing mental health services for young people.
• Evidence of post-qualifying training and courses.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management and clinical supervision to Mental Health Practitioners.
• Identify gaps in service provision for future planning.
• Ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people.

Skills

CYP mental health knowledge

Leadership

Risk management

Diagnostic assessments

Education

Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Social worker with SW registration

Post graduate diploma level

Job description

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Service and support the Management of the DBT pathway and the CORE mental health emotional and behavioural pathway

You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity. You will work across all CAMHS age groups .

Main duties of the job

Provide line management and clinical supervision to the Mental Health Practitioners within the service.

Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.

Attend DBT consultation meetings and provide clinical input into the DBT intervention offer .

Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.

About us

Children's mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Tameside and Glossop benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery.

We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.

Job responsibilities

Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within the core CAMHS service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:

• Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
• Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
• Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
• Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
• Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further

Person Specification

Education

• Registered Nurse - Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration
• Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level

Experience

• Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people.
• Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
• Knowledge and experience of working with older adolescents
• Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
• Evidence of Post qualifying training courses / certificates
• Experience of screening referrals and allocating to most appropriate service.
• Experience of managing junior colleagues

Skills

• Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
• Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs
• Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
• Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere
• Ability to act in consultation / supervision / training capacity with professionals
• Ability to develop liaison / links and familiarity with other professional networks
• Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention.
• Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
• Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
• Ability to provide leadership for the service
• Ability to work flexibly and innovatively.
• Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic / aggressive

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearper annum pro rata