Clinical Team Manager

Job summary

Are you an experienced Mental Health professional looking for a new opportunity? If so, we are seeking to recruit Clinical Team Managers as part of our wave 11 recruitment drive in Sunderland.

The MHST works across designated schools in and across Sunderland supporting children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18 years in providing low-intensity interventions, group work, and whole school approach activities. In addition, we also offer training and advice and support.

If successful, you will be based locally at the Hetton Centre and/or Cleadon Park but can also work from/at CAMHS sites and the hubs.

If you have the skills and essential qualification and are interested in this opportunity, then we would very much like to hear from you. Informal discussions are most welcome.

Main duties of the job

52-week service

Monday to Friday 0900-1700

Please see Job Specification for essential and desirable criteria.

Car driver and access to a car essential.

About us

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award-winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation, and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness, and civility and promote a compassionate, caring, and positive culture/work environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, and in particular those from under-represented groups. Looking after our workforce's health and wellbeing is a priority for STSFT. We also provide access to high-quality education, training, career progression, and support. Flexible working is supported via the Trust's Flexible Working Policy.

Job responsibilities

To be accountable for the day-to-day management of a community team, deployment and supervision of staff, and ensuring the coordination of services provided, optimising the cost-effective use of all resources.

Line management of the team with overall accountability and responsibility for the delivery of all aspects of patient/client care through the provision of effective clinical and managerial leadership.

To lead, motivate, and support the team approach to delivering new and innovative models of care for service users.

To lead a continuously improving service by ensuring systems are in place to support clinical governance, quality monitoring, and ongoing research and audit of practice.

Ensure systems and processes are in place to maintain patient safety.

Facilitate the development of clinical expertise and practice within the team.

To work autonomously, assessing individual patient/client needs, initiating investigations, determining a plan of care, and initiating appropriate holistic, research-based health information and care.

To act as a resource for all members of the team, providing expert advice concerning aspects of patient/client management.

To be responsible for ensuring that agreed professional standards are reflected in practice and to have overall responsibility for monitoring the standard of care.

To improve the service users' journey by increasing access to assessment and appropriate care and treatment.

Work collaboratively with multi-professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective, evidence-based, and safe.

This will be achieved by:

1. Listening to and understanding the community.
2. Bringing people together to develop a shared local vision with service users as equal partners.
3. Assessing community assets, resources, needs, and issues.
4. Empowering community members to identify local issues and articulate solutions.
5. Linking in with Community Mental Health Services (i.e., CYPS, IAPT, CTT).
6. Co-producing an action plan to progress the aspirations of the community.
7. Championing the community views in wider decision-making forums.

The post holder will ensure they uphold our Trust vision, values, and behaviours.

To promote at all times a positive image of children and young people with mental health conditions.

To promote at all times a positive image of the specialist service area and the wider Trust.

For full job description, see attachment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Core Professional qualification and registration (i.e. Nursing, Teaching (with qualified teacher status), Social Worker, Allied Health Professional) or appropriate professional qualification in Therapeutic Training such as CBT, IPT-A, EMDR, Counselling for Depression, CWP/EMHP (with appropriate registration) etc.
• Additional post-graduate qualification in Child and Young People's Mental Health, therapeutic training, or other relevant area.

Desirable

• Teaching qualification.
• Higher degree in relevant area.
• Accreditation with relevant therapeutic body.
• Formal leadership training, e.g., Leading Empowered Organisations; IAPT Transformational Leadership Programme.
• Formal CYPMHS supervision qualification.

Other requirements

Essential

• High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
• The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a developing service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service and with the wider health care system.
• Professional courage and curiosity when understanding and advocating for the needs of children and young people.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working to support the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.
• Experience of working within a community context.
• Significant experience in a Leadership role to support the mental health needs of children and families.
• Experience of supervision and leading in the development of specific aspects of service delivery and people management.
• Extensive experience of working collaboratively within a multi-agency context.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training to a broad range of professionals.

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and using results to influence service improvement.
• Experience of critical incident review and lessons learnt.
• Experience in supervising professional colleagues from non-specialist backgrounds.
• Experience of working within Primary Care or education settings.
• Experience of leadership of teams.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to complete comprehensive mental health assessments and plan, implement and evaluate specialist packages of care for children, young people, and their families.
• Skilled in the delivery of relevant therapeutic interventions including individual, family, and group work.
• Ability to be a role model in terms of values, attitudes, and behaviours, in line with South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust organisational framework.
• Communication and organisation skills.
• Skilled in the delivery of clinical and caseload supervision.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training to a broad range of professionals.
• Ability to offer consultation and advice to a broad range of professionals and work cooperatively to deliver joint interventions with a range of providers.
• Ability to engage vulnerable and underserved groups.
• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding and the promotion of welfare in children.
• Ability to work at the complex interface between universal and specialist children's service provision.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent time and caseload management.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other associated IT packages.
• Evidence of being an effective leader.
• Evidence of being an innovator.
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines in a complex/changing environment.
• Be able to organise and prioritise own workload and that of the wider team.
• Clear concise record keeping, report writing skills.
• Understanding of the National healthcare agenda related to CYPMH.
• Understanding of the principles of infection prevention and control.

Desirable

• Understanding of complex commissioning in a context of local and national CYPMHS agenda.
• IT qualification.

Physical skills

Essential

• Combination of sitting, standing, and walking is required.
• May be required to move and handle objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids.
• The post holder will be required to work flexibly, sometimes working additional or unsocial hours as necessary to meet the needs of the service and ensure a complete understanding is had in relation to care delivery.
• Standard keyboard skills.
• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.

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.
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