Clinical Team Manager

Devon Partnership Nhs Trust; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Devon is seeking a full-time Clinical Team Manager for its Mood, Emotions & Relationships pathway within Children and Family Health. This position combines leadership with clinical responsibilities to support children facing mental health challenges. Responsibilities include managing a multi-disciplinary team, developing pathways, and ensuring safe service delivery. This role offers a unique chance to enhance your leadership skills while making a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of mental health issues in children and young people.
• Ability to build relationships with families and partner agencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership and management for the MERs team.
• Supervise and support team staff.
• Contribute clinical expertise to assessments and care planning.
• Monitor performance and ensure effective service delivery.
• Work closely with management to develop pathways.

Skills

Leadership skills

Clinical expertise in mental health

Ability to supervise and develop staff

Communication skills

Job description

We are seeking a full-time Clinical Team Manager to join our Mood, Emotions & Relationships (MERs) pathway within Children and Family Health Devon. This role is being offered on a fixed-term basis of one year. This pathway supports children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health and emotional difficulties, including depression, anxiety, trauma, self-harm, emotional dysregulation and complex relational challenges.

As a Clinical Team Manager, you will combine leadership responsibilities with your professional expertise, overseeing a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and compassionate care. You will provide day-to-day operational management, professional supervision and support for staff, while contributing to service development, workforce planning and quality improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership career while continuing to use your clinical skills to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day leadership and management for a multi-disciplinary MERs team
• Supervise, support and develop staff through compassionate and inclusive leadership
• Contribute clinical expertise to assessments, formulations and care planning as required
• Monitor performance, demand and capacity, ensuring safe and effective service delivery
• Work closely with the Operations Manager and clinical leads to develop pathways and drive improvements
• Build strong working relationships with families, schools, social care and partner agencies

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is essential that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon. CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health, which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust.

We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework. CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School, where we support students in clinical training placements and, in addition, support our own staff to undertake postgraduate training.