CYP Clinical Lead

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Chester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Team Manager in CAMHS to support high-quality mental health services for children and young people. The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the team and deputise for the Team Manager in their absence.

Within a multidisciplinary framework, you will lead staff development, provide specialist assessments for Tier 4 admissions, and ensure timely risk management, training and service improvement in a busy CAMHS setting.

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent short courses and/or experience.
• Excellent communication skills: - working with staff - working with patients and carers - working with general practice - presentations - written reports - understanding and ability to interpret, research and facilitate staff to implement evidencebased practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership within the team and deputise for the Team Manager.
• Deliver training and staff development within CAMHS.
• Provide specialist assessment for admission to Tier 4 services and risk prioritisation.
• Act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate highly specialised communication skills and problem solving abilities when prioritising risk.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Clinical assessment

Staff training

Education

Master's degree

Teaching qualification

Job description

To support the Team Manager in delivering a high quality Mental Health Service for Children and Young People of the Cheshire and Mersey CAMHS. To provide clinical leadership within the team and management support, deputising for the Team Manager in their absence. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously within a multi disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment for admission to Tier 4 Services, clinical support and time limited intervention to service users. The post holder will act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate highly specialised communication skills and problem solving abilities when prioritising risk., All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role. Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.

Desirable criteria

• Masters level qualification or equivalent short courses and/or experience
• Teaching qualification or significant experience., Excellent communication skills: - working with staff - working with patients and carers - working with general practice - presentations - written reports - understanding and ability to interpret, research and facilitate staff to implement evidencebased practice.
• Proven ability to challenge current practices and freedom to make change in light of evidence-based recommendations
• Knowledge, understanding and the ability to interpret and implement local and national policy direction relevant to practice
• Proven experience of clinical audit, skill and knowledge required to facilitate staff to undertake clinical audit.
• Knowledge and experience of moving staff through the change management process.
• Empowering staff to manage and support change.
• Demonstrable effective clinical leadership with knowledge, understanding and application of leadership theories
• Relevant clinical expertise to support and facilitate clinical development and innovation
• Evidence of sound information technology skills., Experience in the development of professional roles.
• Successfully managed projects that demonstrate ability to communicate and implement change
• Demonstrable and proven understanding and experience of the clinical and corporate governance agenda.
• Knowledge and experience of facilitation of reflective practice for staff and personal reflective practice.
• Demonstrable ability and experience in motivating and empowering others to change roles and in leading practice development

Trust Values Essential criteria

• Demonstrate alignment with Trust Values (6 C's: Commitment, Communication, Care, Courage, Compassion, Competency), You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Ancora House is an in-patient child and adolescent mental health service, consisting of 26 beds, split across three wards: Coral, Indigo and Sapphire Ward. We are a general adolescent unit, that also supports young people with eating disorders. Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport. Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall. As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.