Greenwich MHST Team Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Greenwich is seeking a Team Manager for their Mental Health Support Team. The role involves overseeing the delivery of high-quality mental health services, managing staff, and ensuring a strong collaborative effort with education and local authorities. Ideal candidates will have over five years of managerial experience within child mental health and possess relevant professional qualifications. The position offers a chance to impact the wellbeing of children and young people through effective leadership and service development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing in a child mental health environment.
• Experience of service development and change management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of mental health services.
• Manage staff and develop strong relationships with partners.
• Lead teams through service expansion.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Education

Relevant professional qualification (e.g., RMN, CQSW)

Degree level or equivalent experience

Management qualification or training

Job description

An exciting opportunity has become available to join our dynamic and energetic service as Team Manager of Oxleas CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST) within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government's Green Paper: Transforming children and young people's mental health provision.

Main duties of the job

As Team Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day delivery of the service within Greenwich, supporting the teams to provide a high quality, safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to children, young people and families within a number of local primary and secondary education settings.

You will work in close partnership with education colleagues, local authority and partner agencies and will develop strong working relationships with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within Oxleas CAMHS and the wider Trust.

The service will be undergoing further expansion in line with National MHST targets and priorities, with the Team Manager leading the teams through this change to achieve the ambitious goals and continuing to improve the MHST service.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Experience of managing staff, leading a team/service and change management are essential for this role. You will need to have excellent leadership, communication and management skills with a passion for early intervention mental health support for children, young people and families.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification: e.g. RMN, CQSW/DIPSW, SROT, MRC Psych, Chartered Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist
• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience.
• Management qualification or suitable training and evidence of willingness to undertake further training.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience of managing within a multi- professional, multi-agency child mental health environment.
• Experience of service development and change management

Skills

• Strong leadership and management capacity obtained within a complex child multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict and work with diversity.
• Understanding of finance and budget management and ability to contribute to budget planning.

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.