Clinical Team Lead E&B

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in London seeks a senior clinician to join their CAMHS leadership team. This role involves delivering high standards of care for children and families, ensuring performance targets, and collaborating with various professionals to improve service quality. Ideal candidates will have strong clinical leadership skills and experience in mental health services.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering key performance targets in mental health services.
• Ability to provide clinical and professional advice.
• High degree of professional autonomy and self-management.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical and operational management of the E&B Team.
• Ensure robust patient safety and improved patient experience.
• Contribute positively to a multi-disciplinary working environment.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Operational management

Partnership working

Performance management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Relevant professional qualification in mental health

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.

The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Clinical Director for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. 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 measureable 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.

Main duties of the job include directly contributing to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holders will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

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

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.