Team Leader - CAMHS Eating Disorders

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Hereford is seeking a Team Leader to lead the CAMHS Eating Disorders service. This full-time role requires a qualified professional with extensive experience in managing mental health care for young people. The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day operations, provide clinical leadership, and manage a complex caseload while supporting a dedicated team. Candidates must demonstrate strong leadership skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in assessment and management of children and young people with mental health issues.
• Ability to work autonomously while managing a team.
• Clinical leadership and operational responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of an effective eating disorder service.
• Manage a defined complex caseload and support a locality team.
• Prioritize workloads and delegate work across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Mental health management

Team collaboration

Conflict management

Effective communication

Therapeutic relationship building

Education

Professional qualification (RMN, RN, SW, OT)

Continuous professional development

Job description

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Team Leader – CAMHS Eating Disorders

The closing date is 28 December 2025

We are seeking an experienced clinician who can evidence they have extensive or transferable skills to work with young people with eating disorders. This is an exciting opportunity playing a critical role in supporting the current leadership team with leading and developing our service within CAMHS, whilst holding a defined complex caseload. As a key leader, you will manage and coordinate the delivery of a safe, responsive, and effective eating disorder service, ensuring compliance with national standards and statutory requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to join a very busy service, where no two days will be the same, flexibility, problem solving skills and a desire to make a difference are all vital for this role. Additional training will be provided relating to eating disorders, where required. There is an expectation that you will be able to meet the travel requirements of the role where you will be expected to work across both counties.

This is a full time role.

Main duties of the job

Qualification in RMN, RN, BSc/DIPSW, BSc OT, RSCN

Extensive experience in assessment/management of children and young people with mental health issues, eating disorder experience desirable.

Hold a complex caseload, provide professional clinical/organisational leadership, day-to-day support, line management supervision, supporting a defined team in all its functions. This role is a 50/50 clinical and operational leadership role.

An enthusiastic, motivated and innovative leader to become part of a Children and Young People facing community.

Ability to work autonomously to manage your own diary/case load whilst working within a multi‑disciplinary team risk.

Manage the locality team on a day-to-day basis, managing overall capacity to ensure cover and service delivery in line with priorities and service specification.

Manage all the multi‑disciplinary CAMHS CEDS team.

Be expected to manage and delegate work to a defined locality team.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

Working within a supportive and valued team of professionals.

Support staff's individual development, ensuring the completion of appraisals and management supervision.

Prioritise team workloads and delegate work appropriately across the teams.

Create and promote a learning environment for all bands of staff, students, other professionals, carers and families.

Organise, plan and provide practice‑based learning for all team members and students.

Manage and facilitate effective team working and rotas.

Manage the locality team on a day‑to‑day basis, managing overall capacity to ensure cover and service delivery in line with priorities and service specification, raising any major capacity issues with the Locality Manager.

Undertake Choice assessments and deliver planned treatment through partnership work, using a range of evidence‑based approaches to care.

Effectively manage a defined caseload as a key worker, fully implementing all agreed care plans and ensuring that they are regularly reviewed.

Clinical caseload is likely to oversee high levels of risk, complexities and physical health parameters.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Knowledge of research and clinical governance
• Knowledge of Public Health developments / agenda
• Knowledge of current NHS and national priorities in relation to mental and emotional health and wellbeing of Children and Young People
• Knowledge of the wider influences which impact on service delivery e.g. the commissioning agenda
• Knowledge of managing change / conflict
• Knowledge of eating disorders

Qualifications

• A current professional qualification (RMN, RN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist)
• Evidence of continuous and recent professional development and post qualification training/studies
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
• Supervision and/or mentorship training

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Able to think strategically; to consider the wider picture for developing specialist services long term and planning developments, which may impact across services
• Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately with young people and their families.
• Able to communicate effectively within the team and build good sound working relationships
• Ability to support the learning needs of self and others
• Ability to prioritise work dealing with a complex range of agendas
• Motivational leadership skills and effective team player
• Ability to develop new skills and manage change / conflict
• Ability to work across organisational and professional boundaries
• Skills to implement effective critical analysis
• Able to manage change through influence, persuasion, and good interpersonal relationships.

Experience

• Experience in undertaking research projects / clinical audits
• Significant recent clinical experience post‑registration
• Previous experience providing a service to children and young people within a multi‑disciplinary team
• Leadership experience / experience managing a clinical team
• Experience of working with patients with severe and enduring mental illness
• Experience of partnership working / liaison in inter‑agency environment
• Experience in training / teaching and student assessment
• Experience with working with eating disorders
• Experience in working with young people and families
• Experience in managing a team

Additional Criteria

• Demonstrates commitment to own professional development
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

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.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust