Head of CYP Mental Health

Job Summary

Accountable for:

Management and delivery of the Children's and Young People's (CYP) Management Services for NHFT, ensuring high quality, effective and efficient care for patients in receipt of CYP Mental Health Services from the Trust.

Delivery of integrated, seamless pathways across the Trust and partner organizations for patients primarily managed within the CYP Mental Health Services.

Overall operational management of the CYP Mental Health Services:

1. CAMHS Connect
2. Core CAMHS
3. CAMHS Crisis
4. Intensive Outreach Team
5. CAMHS Inpatient
6. Children's Eating Disorders Team
7. Paediatric Psychology

There is significant change and investment across CYP Mental Health Services to reflect a landscape of rising referral numbers and levels of acuity. The joining up of Community CAMHS services/Crisis/Intensive Outreach and Inpatient has never been more vital. A key element of the role will be monitoring and responding to surges in all of the areas to ensure safe, effective and person-centered care throughout the CAMHS journey.

Main Duties of the Job

1. To ensure effective and mutually beneficial partnership working within the accountable areas, all other Trust services and with external stakeholders to deliver continuous improvement and maximize the health outcomes of the populations served.
2. To work with medical and other multi-disciplinary team colleagues to ensure that resources are used and allocated to their maximum efficiency.
3. To deliver against all performance indicators for the accountable areas, ensuring that all contractual obligations are met.
4. To provide effective and inspirational leadership to the accountable areas to achieve quality, clinical effectiveness and successful services.
5. To provide and develop a positive working environment and open culture which fosters high morale and commitment amongst all staff and promotes their wellbeing, professional and personal developments.
6. To ensure that services are developed in line with population needs, service demand and agreed national and local priorities.
7. To be accountable for the direct delivery of clinical care across all services within CYP Mental Health Services.
8. To maintain a high profile and visible role as a leader and champion of Quality. The post holder will be an exceptional individual who can influence, lead, support and motivate staff at all levels.
9. To work closely with corporate colleagues to ensure there is appropriate liaison and facilitate prompt issues response.

About Us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date Posted: 22 April 2025

Pay Scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £62,215 to £72,293 a year pa pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full-time

Reference Number: 270-TG027-ACS

Job Locations: Newland House, Northampton, NN1 3EB

Job Responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Education Essential

• Registered Nurse or ANP
• Qualification or significant Mental Health experience
• Educated to Master's degree Level, working towards, or relevant equivalent experience

Desirable

• Recognised Management Qualification/Be able to demonstrate a range of management experiences across a range of teams

Experience Essential

• Senior NHS Management experience within Mental Health Services and line management responsibility for multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of delivering cost improvement programmes
• Experience of engaging with and incorporating patient/user views into the provision of services
• Implementation and management of successful change/quality/practice development projects

Desirable

• Experience in clinical governance, risk management and service improvement
• Experience of developing teams/others
• Demonstrate a good level of understanding of performance/compliance
• Experience of conducting negotiations relating to complex matters with other senior managers both internal and external to the organisation

Behaviours Essential

• Approachable and accessible to colleagues and across the organisation.
• Maintain and exhibit a professional approach to work acting as a role model for other staff in terms of standards of behaviour and conduct.
• Ability to work in a flexible way and respond to change.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment.
• Reliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style with all team members, fostering this culture across the team.
• Leading, motivating and inspiring the team on a daily basis, bringing all team members together in providing high standards in the provision of recruitment advice and leading further progression of the recruitment service.

Desirable

• Encourage others to make decisions with application of knowledge and skills.
• Ability to demonstrate independence of thought.
• Ability to work effectively in periods of hostility and/or hostile environments.

Skills and Abilities Essential

• Skills in Information Management and Technology to support reporting and analysis.
• Able to reason, including the ability to analyse, interpret, evaluate and draw assumptions from data and information. Able to utilise complex information to identify solutions by undertaking a comparison of a range of options.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent verbal communication skills, adjusting language, style and content as appropriate to the audience. This includes highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there may be barriers to understanding and will include understanding of non-verbal communication.

Desirable

• Effective written communication skills.
• Able to plan, prioritise, meet deadlines and manage own workload.
• Ability to delegate as appropriate.
• Is emotionally resilient.
• Able to deal with conflict and issues of poor performance in an effective and non-confrontational manner.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Employer Name: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address: Newland House, Northampton, NN1 3EB

Employer's Website: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/