Greenwich MHST Team Manager

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Team Manager for its Oxleas CAMHS Mental Health Support Team in Greater London. The role involves ensuring effective service delivery, leading change management, and collaborating closely with educational and healthcare partners. Candidates should have extensive experience in child mental health settings and a strong background in leadership and management. This position offers an opportunity to significantly impact the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a multi-agency child mental health environment.
• Experience in service development and change management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective day-to-day delivery of the mental health service.
• Work closely with education colleagues and manage staff.
• Lead teams through change to meet MHST targets.

Skills

Strong leadership and management capacity

Ability to manage group dynamics and conflict

Understanding of finance and budget management

Education

Relevant professional qualification: e.g. RMN, CQSW/DIPSW, MRC Psych

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

Management qualification or suitable 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.