Clinical lead CAMHS ND/LD

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Continued Professional Development

Staff wellbeing service

Staff discounts

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinical leader to support two community CAMHS teams in the Greater Manchester area, focusing on children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs and neurodiversity or learning disabilities.

The post involves guiding staff on legislation, developing and maintaining effective clinical pathways between CAMHS and other services, and providing leadership in risk assessment, supervision, and debriefs after incidents.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to provide clinical leadership in CAMHS settings.
• Experience in working with children and young people with neurodiversity or learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and expertise to two community CAMHS teams in Tameside and Stockport.
• Guide staff in managing complex neurodevelopmental and mental health presentations.
• Provide guidance on relevant legislation and clinical pathways between CAMHS and other services.
• Lead in risk assessment, risk management and incident debriefs.
• Lead on structured supervision and development of team confidence in complex cases.
• Ensure in-depth assessments and ongoing interventions by the lead case manager.

Job description

This is an exciting new post created to offer clinical leadership and expertise to 2 community CAMHS teams in Tameside and Stockport. The post involves offering expertise in working with children and young people presenting to CAMHS with a moderate to severe mental health need and other complexity around neurodiversity and or a Learning disability .

To provide guidance and support to clinical staff in the management of complex cases.

To provide guidance and support on relevant legislation.

To be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways between CAMHS and other services.

To provide additional leadership and guidance to other team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving and lead on debriefs following incidents.

Develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues.

To take a lead role in the provision of clinical leadership and structured clinical supervision to the team.

To lead on and ensure that the team undertakes appropriate and in-depth assessments and on-going intervention, and undertake the duties and responsibilities of an active lead case manager role

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Donna Stanton Job title: Operational manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 716 3600