Clinical Team Manager - CAMHS Crisis

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in North Yorkshire is seeking a full-time Clinical Team Manager for their CAMHS Crisis service. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in managing clinical teams, a Master's level education or equivalent clinical experience, and a passion for improving mental health services. The role involves providing leadership and collaborating with clinical teams to enhance service delivery, ensuring young people receive the best support. The position offers flexibility to work from different locations within the area.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a Band 6 or similar role.
• Experience managing a team in a clinical setting.
• Experience working with patients in risk situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership for the CAMHS crisis team.
• Support staff and ensure service-wide collaboration.
• Drive improvements in mental health services.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Mental Health Service Improvement

Education

Master's level education relevant to practice

Current professional registration in healthcare or social work

Job description

Clinical Team Manager - CAMHS Crisis

The closing date is 06 January 2026

We are excited to advertise a full‑time, Band 7 Team Manager post in the North Yorkshire CAMHS Crisis service. The successful candidate will have the choice of a base at Foss Park Hospital in York or The Orchards in Ripon.

The CAMHS Crisis service operates a 24/7 model within urgent care, covering North Yorkshire, York and Selby. The post holder will need to be capable of independent travel across the locality within their working day to support staff operationally and attend service‑wide meetings.

This is an exciting time to join the service and help drive transformation and change. We are currently looking to increase the service offer within the CAMHS crisis service and the team manager will play a fundamental part in this development.

The successful candidate will provide operational leadership for the team and work in partnership with the local and wider clinical and operational leadership teams across the care group. The role will include, but not be limited to, day‑to‑day leadership within the team, supervision, monitoring of KPIs, talent management and service development.

We are looking for someone with a professional registration in nursing, occupational therapy or social work, ideally with at least 2 years of Band 6 or similar experience, including experience of leadership in a previous role.

Main duties of the job

We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and creative leader who is positive about supportive change and who will bring new ideas to the team.

We are seeking someone who will:

• Be passionate about improving the mental health services and ensuring young people and their families are directed to and access the most suitable services for their needs.
• Be passionate about continuing to improve CAMHS services.
• Be a driven, enthusiastic and forward‑thinking leader.
• Have experience working in a senior clinical position within health and/or care.
• Have experience of working with clinicians to achieve service improvement.
• Have a range of experience leading projects or other clinically based initiatives that have contributed to delivering innovative and high quality services.
• Hold a relevant professional registration.

About us

We are a friendly, supportive team from a variety of professional backgrounds. We enjoy being creative in our approach to patient care and work collaboratively with young people at every opportunity. As an organisation we encourage learning and continued professional development.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with an appropriate body in healthcare or social work or a relevant professional clinical qualification (e.g., PWP/CWP in IAPT/Getting Help services).
• Be educated to Master's level in leadership or a subject area relevant to the area of practice, OR
• Have equivalent clinical experience to that of Master’s level such as working as a Band 6 (or above) in a relevant clinical area with significant experience, including managing people and evidence of CPD.
• Be trained in clinical supervision and providing clinical supervision.
• Be a recognised practice assessor/practice supervisor.

Experience

• Significant experience of managing people.
• Significant experience working with patients who display risk behaviours.
• Working collaboratively with others (external partners, staff service users and their families/carers).
• Evidence of delivering supervision.
• Working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• Safeguarding, risk assessment and management and its application in practice.
• Developing, maintaining and auditing standards of practice.
• Evidence of training in quality improvement methodology or coaching, and/or using inter‑agency and partnership working.

Personal Attributes

• Able to challenge staff behaviour and values in a constructive manner.
• Able to offer support to staff whilst maintaining boundaries, which enable difficult decisions to be made in an impartial and fair manner in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team.
• Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.

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.