About this role
Job summary
City & Hackney CAMHS
Clinical Team Lead - Emotional and Behavioural Team
6 months fixed term contract - 22.5 hours per week (0.60wte)
This post will form part of the CAMHS senior leadership team in City and Hackney and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
Working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Psychological Therapies Lead, the post holder will provide inspirational leadership of multidisciplinary clinicians to ensure effective, evidence based assessment and treatment, accessible care pathways and a culture of continuous quality improvement.
The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and operational management of one of the multi-disciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Clinical Director for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. S/he will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measureable outcomes for children and young people and their families.
Responsibilities will include working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager, Psychological Therapies Lead, other Clinical Team Leads and Emotional & Behavioural team leads elsewhere in the Trust in service planning and development, the development of bids and business cases, advising on issues of staff performance, and providing clinical and professional advice and leadership to facilitate service improvements
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description Job responsibilities FULL JD AND PS ATTACHED.
The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and operational management of one of the multi-disciplinary teams.
The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Clinical Director for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. S/he will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measureable outcomes for children and young people and their families.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC
Experience Essential
Experience of providing senior clinical leadership Experience of partnership working with other agencies
Knowledge Essential
Advanced knowledge within own clinical discipline and sufficient knowledge of other disciplines / modalities to provide overall psychological therapies leadership Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address City & Hackney CAMHS
15 Homerton Row
London
E9 6ED
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)