Clinical Team Manager

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Team Manager with Warrington Community CYPMHS. In this role, you will manage the CAMHS, leading a dedicated team while ensuring high standards of care. The position offers the chance to make a significant impact on mental health services in a supportive environment within one of the largest trusts in the North West.

Qualifications

• Must have qualification in at least one psychotherapy or counselling.
• 3 years post-registration experience in a senior role within mental health.
• Willingness to undertake a management qualification.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
• Develop and evaluate programmes of care.
• Work flexibly across divisional sites.
• Lead and support a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Emotional resilience

Organisational skills

Analytical skills

Education

Degree qualification relevant to field of practice

Registered Nurse (RMN)

Job description

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Team Manager within Warrington Community CYPMHS.

The successful applicant will work full-time hours, supporting a rapidly developing Warrington CYPMHS service. You will work as part of an MDT, consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health nurses, Psychological therapists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers and more.

As part of the Warrington CYPMHS leadership team, you will be supported to deliver an excellent service alongside a Deputy Team Manager, Clinical Lead, and Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry managerial responsibility for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and be responsible for the overall standards which will include referral management and access, assessment of need and delivery of care within the iTHRIVE model.

The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team but be expected to be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties.

The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.

The post holder will be aligned to Community CAMHS Service but may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ensure continuity of a quality service provision.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full description of responsibilities of the role as Clinical Team Manager

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse (RMN)
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Degree qualification relevant to field of practice or demonstrable evidence of study at a higher level
• Willing to undertake a management qualification
• OR None Core Professional
• Must have qualification in at least one of the following areas:
• Individual or group Psychotherapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Person Centred Counselling
• Systemic Family Practice
• Webster Stratton Incredible years / parenting groups professional
• Must have professional qualification and registration with an appropriate accrediting body (i.e., HCPC / BACAP), or equivalent from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) approved accredited register. Degree level equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Management Qualification

Knowledge/ Experience

Essential criteria

• Specialist expertise underpinned by theory
• Working knowledge of current mental health legislation
• 3 years post registration experience in a senior role within Mental health
• Recent relevant experience of leading a team and providing care in a secure setting
• Line management responsibilities and experience
• Able to demonstrate a history of leading on clinical care improvement initiative
• Methodical approach to work with attention to detail
• Experience of staff performance managements
• To be able to travel around the area of work

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent Interpersonal skills
• Emotional resilience
• Ability to prioritise workload, work at a fast pace and meet deadlines
• Ability to analyse problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions
• Good organisational skills, experienced in applying and implementing systems to manage workload
• Able to manage and support staff through organisational change
• Ability to manage own time effectively produce detailed reports/written work to a high standard and on time
• Ability to organise and plan ahead effectively
• Ability to manage revenue budgets
• Ability to deal with difficult issues sensitively and diplomatically

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Clinical Team Manager JD & PS (PDF, 424.6KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 160.4KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)
• Your Recruitment Journey (PDF, 62.3KB)
• Your Recruitment Journey (PDF, 62.3KB)