Team Manager CAMHS Intensive Community Support Team

Integrated Care System; Leicester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS trust is seeking a Team Manager for the CAMHS Intensive Community Support Team in Leicester. The role involves leading a team that provides intensive support to young people facing complex emotional and behavioral challenges. Responsibilities include managing resources, ensuring service quality, and collaborating with various stakeholders to develop personalized care plans. This position offers opportunities for professional growth within a supportive environment committed to mental health and community well-being.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams and delivering mental health services.
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage care plans.
• Knowledge of mental health issues and relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the CAMHS Intensive Community Support Team.
• Ensure effective quality service delivery.
• Develop bespoke care plans to prevent hospital admissions.

Skills

Leadership

Decision-making

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Relevant professional qualifications

Job description

Team Manager CAMHS Intensive Community Support Team

Band 8a Team Manager CAMHS ICST 8 month Fixed Term Contract or Internal secondment (1 WTE).

The ICST is a CAMHS team set up to enhance the risk support offer to young people, via the provision of an outreach and intensive intervention team to support the CYP with the most complex needs.

The service operates at the interface of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team & inpatient admission.The team will prioritise CYP presenting with repeating patterns of crisis presentation and associated high risk behaviour.

This service is particularly aimed at meeting the needs of the cohort of young people with complex needs, emotional dysregulation and associated high risk behaviour, for whom an inpatient admission may potentially cause longer term detriment by inadvertently increasing the risk profile.

These young people are likely to have emotional regulation difficulties/ extensive trauma histories/ ASD/ Intellectual Disability and present with high-risk behaviours.

The team is committed to offering intensive, psychologically informed support to ensure the best possible care, in the community.

The team will offer an enhanced model of care to young people and their families working alongside existing services to develop a holistic and integrated personalised plan of care using trauma informed approaches.

Within the senior leadership team learning and development opportunities are supported both through in-house training and external provision.

Main duties of the job

• To take responsibility for the leadership and management of CAMHS Intensive Community Support Team and ensure the provision of an effective quality service which accords with the appropriate profession body.
• To support the wider CAMHS service through consultation to support young people with complex needs via bespoke care plans to avoid hospital admissions wherever possible.
• To demonstrate sound decision-making and problem-solving skills.To demonstrate effective delegation skills.
• To provide highly specialised education in the field of AMHS Intensive Community Support Team.
• To support team leaders and performance manage them with regard to the management of the service budget and resources.
• To manage budgets as required and reporting to commissioners as required.
• Within the senior leadership team learning and development opportunities are supported both through in-house training and external provision.

We provide extensive support and supervision within our team and service.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.About UsLeicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

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.