CORE CAMHS Team Lead

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Calow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced clinician to lead the Core CAMHS Team, ensuring timely, safe, compassionate and evidence‑based care for children, young people and families. The post holder will provide visible leadership to a multidisciplinary team and address clinical and operational pressures.

The role includes supervising staff, managing referrals, and supporting safeguarding, risk assessment and care planning to drive service improvement and patient

Qualifications

• Experience in CAMHS leadership and team management.
• Ability to manage referrals, assessments and interventions within professional competence.
• Experience in safeguarding, risk assessment and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support day‑to‑day delivery of Core CAMHS services.
• Manage referrals and requests for intervention; undertake assessments, formulation and therapeutic interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and guidance to clinicians and promote multidisciplinary working.
• Support staff wellbeing, workload management, sickness absence, annual leave and development.

Job description

The Core Team Lead will support the effective day-to-day delivery of Core CAMHS, ensuring children, young people and families receive timely, safe, compassionate and evidence-based care. As part of the CAMHS leadership team, the post holder will provide visible, supportive leadership and identify and escape clinical and operational pressures, risks and gaps in provision.

Responsibilities include managing referrals and requests for intervention; undertaking assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions within professional competence; maintaining an appropriate clinical caseload; and supporting robust risk assessment, safeguarding, care planning and clinical decision-making. The post holder will provide clinical supervision, consultation and advice to clinicians and promote effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working.

They will support staff through supervision, appraisal, workload management, sickness absence, annual leave, development and wellbeing, applying relevant organisational policies. The role will contribute to service development and continuous improvement, using clinical, workforce and operational information to inform decisions. The post holder will maintain effective communication with staff, families, partner agencies and the CAMHS Clinical Leadership Team.

CAMHS is part of Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Our vision is to be a first-class provider of sustainable healthcare services, delivering the best possible care for our patients; and being a great place to work for our people. Our Proud to CARE philosophy supports this vision - and we all play a part in achieving it, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other.

We are passionate about sustainable transport and offer a cycle to work scheme, as well as an electric lease car scheme open to all employees. Our staff wellbeing service provides a huge range of benefits including staff counselling, access to free financial and legal advice and various support groups, fitness classes and even a staff choir! A staff wellbeing hub, including a free gym for staff has now opened on the main hospital site.

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and highly motivated clinician to join our Core Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) as a Core CAMHS Team Lead.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS practitioner who is passionate about delivering high-quality, safe and effective mental health care for children, young people and their families, while providing visible, supportive and compassionate leadership to a multidisciplinary team.