Medical Writing Director/Asset Lead

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be We are developing an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.
We are excited to be advertising for full time Clinical Team Manager to support our new Mood, Emotions, and Relationships pathway of care in Exeter/ East Devon. You will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services. We hope that with the launch of the new pathway approaching this will be an ideal time to welcome a new Clinical Team Manager to help implement the model and support the delivery of the service.
The main duties of the role involve overseeing the clinical team and ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to patients. This includes managing and supervising a team of healthcare professionals such as nurses, therapists, and support staff.
With the recent development of this pathway, the clinical team manager may also be involved in recruitment and training of new staff, as well as ensuring that the service is adequately resourced to meet the needs of the patients.
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.
CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Children and Family Health Devon is a system-wide service that delivers an integrated, coordinated support model which wraps around the child, young person and family. It builds on our strong relationships across education, health, social care and voluntary sector services in Devon, and, most importantly, it has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Children and Family Health Devon is part of an Alliance that is unique and brings together five leading providers of adult and childrens community, acute and mental health services in Devon:
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
and, academic partners:
University of Exeter
University of Plymouth
Marjon University
Children and Family Health Devon is committed to promoting equity and inclusion for all communities to providing specialist children and young peoples health services which are accessible, appropriate and which recognise the diversity of people, their needs and choices.
To provide day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within a clinical pathway. The post holder will manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical leads and other managers.
To ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need.
To ensure the service is based on best practice and evidence is outcomes focussed and audit and routine outcome monitoring is used to improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for children and young people.
Ensure that care and treatment is delivered in response to local need in partnership with communities and other local services
Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team
Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care including triage, assessment, clinical formulation and care planning, treatment, and discharge of children and young people
Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector.
Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and feedback elicited, considered and acted-upon.
In partnership with the Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively.
To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and improvement
Work with other Team Managers across the multi-agency system of childrens services in the locality to ensure the clinical pathway is delivered as part of an integrated system of care, to improve health outcomes for children and young people.
Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets
Ensure robust financial management of the teams activities
Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs.
Our Children and Young People say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
The core value of Children and Family Health Devon is that all staff will actively seek the views of children, young people, parents and carers in a variety of ways and use this feedback to develop their own practice and support the development of the service as a whole. Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions - undertaking specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people with complex health problems
Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework
Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement
Experience of using data to improve services

Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience.
Ability to review, analyse and report on information and key data relating to the teams performance, capacity or activity.
A professional mental health qualification e.g. Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP