CAMHS Brief Intervention/Home Treatment Team Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be managerially and operationally responsible for all aspects of service delivery for the CAMHS Brief Intervention Service/Home Treatment Team. This task will be delivered in conjunction with professional leads within the service.
• To develop and oversee policies and procedures within the team and service wide to ensure safe and consistent service delivery and development.
• To manage the service within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment, analysing complex issues and responding to them in a timely and effective manner.
• To ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP IAPT principles.
• To ensure lone working policies are being followed in accordance to trust and local policy and procedure and to appropriate manage the team's use of PeopleSafe devices.
• To take a leading role in the development, monitoring and review of annual service/business plans.
• To be responsible for the implementation of relevant HR policies including disciplinary issues and conflict resolution.
• To ensure information systems are kept up to date and comply with Trust protocols.
• To manage complaints and critical incident reporting, provide management reports and ensure learning from these events is embedded.
• To establish and chair regular, scheduled team meetings and other professional forums as required such as professional or escalation meetings.
• To ensure all staff within the team receive supervision, appraisal, and PDP in line with Trust policy, and to support staff in their continuing development with the team.
• To ensure that the staffing requirements of the team is being met in an appropriate, clinically safe and cost effective manner.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RMN/RLDN, CQSW/DIPSW, SROT professional qualification
• Management qualification or suitable training and evidence of willingness to undertake further training

Desirable criteria

• Training in a therapeutic modality e.g., CBT, DBT, family interventions

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 2 years' experience of working in an inpatient, liaison, or acute mental health setting in a senior role
• Minimum of 5 years' post qualification experience working within a multi-professional, multi-agency child health environment
• Experience of service development and change management
• Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation to staff
• Understanding of mental health risk assessment and formulation and CPA and care co-ordinator processes
• A comprehensive understanding the Mental Health Act 1983/2007, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and legislative framework of the Children Act 1989

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a CAMHS environment and/or with complex high risk young people in a multicultural framework

Skills

Essential criteria

• Strong leadership and management capacity obtained working with complex service users in a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Enhanced knowledge of children's safeguarding
• Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict, and work with diversity
• Extensive IT skills including use of electronic client records, intranet, shared drives, databases, Word, and Excel packages
• Ability to build and develop teams which should include teaching, supervision, and training

Desirable criteria

• Undertaking quality improvement initiative
• Understanding of finance and budget management and ability to contribute to budget planning

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 304.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 136.4KB)
• Important Additional Information For Candidates (please read carefully) (PDF, 160.6KB)
• Privacy Notice for Staff (PDF, 268.6KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.5MB)