About this role
Job summary
Permanent
Full Time 37 hours per week
Devons Wellbeing Service is transforming how we support children and families and we're looking for a Clinical Team Manager to join us on this journey. You will manage a team of multi disciplinary practitioners providing assessment, treatment and consultation to children and those supporting and caring for them.
Main duties of the job
This is an opportunity to be part of a service that is restorative, relational, and trauma-informed, working alongside a passionate multi-disciplinary team. You'll manage clinical practitioners across Devon, ensuring that children and young people receive the right support at the right time whether they're on the edge of care, returning home, in care, or leaving care.
About us
You'll be part of a service that values innovation without losing sight of what works. For those already in the organisation, this is an opportunity to deepen your impact and grow your leadership in a supportive environment. For those joining us, its an opportunity to bring your skills and experience to help shape a service that is ambitious for children and families.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Purpose -
The post holder will provide day-to-day operational management of the provision ofcare and treatment within the Wellbeing Service Clinical Team
To line manage a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians
To provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as required.
To provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the efficient and effective delivery ofthe service.
To manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with theoperational lead, senior clinicians, and other Team Managers
To ensure the service is based on best practice and evidence, is outcomes focussedand audit and outcome monitoring is used to improve outcomes for children and youngpeople
To be an integral part of the Wellbeing Service and wider childrens services leadershipteam contributing to transformational change and continuous service improvement
To promote the protection of children, adhering to the Local Safeguarding ChildrensBoard policies and procedures.
This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence andfluency in English.
Main duties and responsibilities -
Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management ofthe clinical team
Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care includingtriage, assessment, clinical formulation and care planning, treatment, and discharge ofchildren and young people
Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and theirparents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and feedback elicited,considered and acted-upon
In partnership with the Clinical Lead, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within thepathway are identified and managed effectively
To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal capacity withinthe team
To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and improvement
Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), tomaintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety
Work with other Team Managers across childrens services to ensure the clinicalpathway is delivered as part of an integrated system of care, to improve outcomes forchildren and young people
Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the ability todemonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies andprocedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approachto engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs
Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in arange of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of others
To deputise for the Clinical Lead and Wellbeing Team Managers as required Location/Mobility
You may be required to work at, or from, any additional location as may be determinedby the organisation from time to time. The organisation also reserves the right from timeto time to change your base on a permanent basis to a reasonable location determinedby it at the time the change is made.
You may also be required to travel between premises for the performance of your duties.
This document outlines the duties for the time being to indicate the level of responsibility. It is not a comprehensive or exclusive list and the duties may be varied from time to time which do not change the general character to the job or the level of responsibility entailed
Person Specification
Management of People Essential
Leadership experience Evidence of partnership working. Ability to lead and manage a team
Desirable
Leadership qualification/evidence of undertaking relevant course
Qualifications Essential
A professional qualification at degree level or equivalent e.g. Psychological profession, Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or equivalent Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills Evidence of relevant CPD
Desirable
Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in an evidence-based therapeutic approach
Experience Essential
Understanding and experience of safeguarding Experience of managing and supervising individuals Clear understanding of the needs of Children/Young People and their families. Knowledge of national and local strategies pertaining to Children and Young people Evidence of continuing professional development. Sound knowledge of health presentations in children and young people and the practice of clinical interventions within area of specialty Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management Knowledge of service and quality improvement methodologies Knowledge of clinical outcomes monitoring, service evaluation and audit methodology and ability to critically interpret research findings and data Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice Experience of working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team and across agencies
Desirable
Experience of working within childrens social care Expertise in therapeutic support in the following areas of practice - edge of care, children in care and care experienced young people
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 (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Devon County Council
Address Devon County Council
County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter
Devon
EX2 4QD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.devon.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)