CAMHS Team Leader (North Warwickshire)

NHS; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Nuneaton is looking for a CAMHS Team Leader to manage clinical teams delivering mental health interventions for children and young people. You will be responsible for service development, driving improvements, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Significant experience in children's mental health and leadership skills are essential. The role offers generous benefits and a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers

Wellbeing support

Strong leadership team

Continual professional development

Qualifications

• Significant experience in children’s mental health.
• Experience managing a clinical team.
• Experience driving service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of responsive services.
• Contribute to integrated workforce development.
• Collaborate with other Trust services and partners.
• Deputise for the Service Manager at key meetings.
• Engage in leadership duties as required.

Skills

Leadership skills

Effective working relationships

Understanding of national/local policy

Ability to plan and adjust plans

Education

Mental health training at degree level or higher

Registration with NMC, HCPC, UKCP or PSA

Job description

CAMHS Team Leader (North Warwickshire)

The closing date is 21 November 2025

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.

This role will be for North Warwickshire (based in Nuneaton and Rugby), 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.

Benefits

• 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
• Strong and supportive leadership team
• Continual professional development and leadership skills, supported through national NHS programmes

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.

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 through 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

• Significant experience of working in children’s mental health.
• Leadership experience/experience managing a clinical team
• Demonstrable experience of driving service improvements
• Demonstrable experience of working with data reporting systems and managing service delivery targets

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to maintain effective working relationships
• Strong understanding of national and local policy impacting children’s mental health
• Ability to plan over short and medium‑long term and adjust plans according to need

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.