Team Manager – Core CAMHS

Integrated Care System; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A health care organization in Cheltenham seeks a Team Manager for Core CAMHS. The role involves managing a team to deliver high-quality mental health services to children and young people. Candidates must have relevant professional qualifications, team management experience, and knowledge of mental health interventions. This is an exciting opportunity to enhance service delivery within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Registered with a regulated professional body.
• Experience in children's mental health services.
• Proven team leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Support CAMHS staff to deliver clinical work.
• Promote positive team culture and morale.
• Manage caseload oversight and safeguarding.
• Conduct governance and quality assurance initiatives.
• Lead service improvements and evaluations.

Skills

Team management

Clinical assessment

Mental health interventions

Collaboration skills

Education

Current professional registration (NMC, HCPC)

Management/leadership qualification

Degree in relevant field with postgraduate learning

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Team Manager – Core CAMHS

The closing date is 28 August 2025

Gloucestershire Core CAMHS are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, skilled and supportive individual to provide additional team manager capacity to our core CAMHS teams.

Core CAMHS provide a breadth of Mental Health Service to the children and young people (0 to 18) of Gloucestershire. The service is provided by a strong Multi-Disciplinary Team of professionals offering a range of assessment and intervention for example; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, emotional coping skills and Family Therapy.

We are looking for someone who can nurture and develop our teams as we and our service continues to offer a high standard of assessment and treatment for young people and families. We have been working hard to reduce our waiting times which we have made significant progress with. Therefore we believe this is an exciting time to join the team to help us focus on developing our service.

Main duties of the job

As a Team Manager, you are expected to have the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to complete CAMHS clinical assessments and clinical risk assessments where required. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate knowledge and experience in providing CAMHS based mental health interventions. The successful applicant must have a current registered professional qualification, for example, psychology, mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy as outlined in the person specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

As well asproviding the full range of operational and line management roles and responsibilities such as:

Supporting and enabling a team of CAMHS staff to effectively deliver their clinical work

Perpetuating a positive team culture, good morale and staff wellbeing and role modelling GHC Trust values

Oversight of the teams performance & activity.

Caseload oversight including focus on risk and safeguarding management

Governance overview including oversight of continuous improvement, quality assurance initiatives and reflective practice.

HR oversight including performance management and leading appraisals

Quarterly review and update of job plans for staff.

Contribute to the planning, development and delivery of service and quality improvements.

Lead regular CAMHS meetings to build a sense of robust and safe multi disciplinary working whilst being co-located within the wider multi agency setting.

Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within daily clinical practice in order to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers

Collect and analyse performance and activity information effectively for the purpose of audit and service evaluation.

Person Specification

• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC
• Formal management/ leadership qualification or equivalent
• Post registration training in specific interventions applicable to children / young people and their families
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CAMHS field or skill
• Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust