Clinical Team Lead E&B

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Camden Town is seeking a senior clinician to join their CAMHS leadership team, responsible for delivering high-quality mental health care for children and families. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in clinical leadership and operational management, contributing to service improvements and ensuring excellent care outcomes. Flexibility in working arrangements is supported, making this an attractive opportunity for experienced professionals.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Must be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline.
• Experience in managing clinical services.
• Ability to lead performance targets and quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for service delivery for children and young people.
• Work in partnership with various clinical and managerial leads.
• Facilitate service improvements through clinical and professional advice.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Operational management

Collaboration with clinical teams

Education

Relevant clinical qualification

Job description

The post-holder will join the CAMHS senior leadership team in Newham and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children, young people and families affected by mental health problems.

The post-holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and operational management of the E&B Team. They will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence-based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measurable outcomes for children and young people and their families.

Responsibilities will include working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager, Psychological Therapies Lead, and other clinical team leads in service planning and development, the development of bids and business cases, advising on issues of staff performance, and providing clinical and professional advice and leadership to facilitate service improvements.

Key Relationships:

• General Manager CAMHS
• Associate Clinical Director
• Psychological Therapies Lead
• Lead Psychiatrist
• Consultant Psychiatrists
• Clinical Team Leads
• Senior Management Team
• Associate Director - CAMHS
• CAMHS colleagues in borough and across the Trust
• Operations Manager and Administrative Team
• CAMHS Performance Team
• Professional Leads
• Director of Specialist Services and Clinical Director
• Trust Director of Psychological Therapies
• Trust Director of Nursing
• Other professionals working with children and young people in social care, health, education, and the third sector
• Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc
• Service Commissioners
• Service Users and Parents/Carers

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation, and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead, and contribute towards improving our services.

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire, and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018, and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures, and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation, and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part-time, or another flexible pattern.

East London NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.