Clinical Team Manager

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Totnes; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Totnes is seeking a full-time Clinical Team Manager to join their Mood, Emotions & Relationships pathway focused on children and young people with mental health challenges. The ideal candidate will oversee a multi-disciplinary team while providing exceptional operational and clinical leadership. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance leadership skills while greatly impacting the lives of children and families. Applicants should possess relevant qualifications and substantial experience in mental health care.

Qualifications

• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions.
• Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals.
• Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings.
• Experience in involving service users as active partners in delivery of services.
• Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement.
• Experience of using data to improve services.

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.
• Monitor performance, demand and capacity, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.
• Work closely with the Operations Manager and clinical leads to develop pathways.

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.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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 post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

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 important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Job responsibilities

Further information on the role and the full person specification can be found on the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions - undertaking specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
• Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
• Experience in involving service users as active partners in the delivery and or design of services
• Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement
• Experience of using data to improve services

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience.
• Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
• The ability to work as an autonomous professional, to take on responsibility, make decisions under pressure and seek support as appropriate.
• Ability to review, analyse and report on information and key data relating to the teams performance, capacity or activity.
• The ability to plan and complete operational leadership tasks as directed and within reasonable timescales.
• Ability to develop and implement systems to manage capacity and demand - patient flow, staff workloads.

Qualifications

• A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree, BSc/Diploma in OT, or equivalent.
• Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
• Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
• Evidence of relevant CPD.

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.