Duty Team Leader Camhs

6 months ago


Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead and develop our new duty team within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service within Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This new role of duty team leader will provide effective leadership to ensure the duty team functions effectively and safely within the service. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership of the CAMHS duty team ensuring any duty systems, pathways and protocols are in place and run effectively. You will also maintain an element of clinical practice, carrying out assessments and co-ordinate any care plans and therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and their parents or carer. This will include regular liaison and collaborative working with other agencies i.e., A&E, pediatric departments, children’s social care and education. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, motivated and able to use your initiative in an environment which can often be busy, dynamic, and rewarding.

The role may require working weekends and evening and you will be expected to participate in the team leader/manager on call rota which includes out of hours.

The post holder will in conjunction with the CAMHS Service Manager and Team Leaders play a key operational role in the delivery of the Child and Adolescent Menial Health Service (CAMHS) across Blackpool. The post holder will provide effective leadership and clinical support including maintaining an element of clinical practice to ensure the duty team functions effectively within the service and meets its objectives.

The post holder will work in partnership with other services access a range of settings

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and offers a full range of District Hospital services and Community Health services to this population.

Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen an ensure that you are part of a defined preceptorship programme.

If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the Blackpool person then this could be the post for you.
- Responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership of the CAMHS Duty team ensuring any duty systems are in place and run effectively.
- Provide strong and effective leadership to staff, providing support, advice, and supervision.
- Respond to day-to-day issues within the team to ensure these are resolved as swiftly as possible.
- To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, where appropriate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for teams’ delivery.
- Support the development of the team, ensuring the provision of regular caseload management and clinical supervision
- Maintain an element of clinical practice within the role. Carrying out the duty functions as required

Emotional Effort

Occasional conflict and emotional distress can be anticipated when negotiating and/or managing changes to clinical and operational ways of working.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Quality

**Each member of staff is required to ensure that**:
1. The patient and customer is always put first;
2. That in all issues, the patient/customer requirements are met and all staff contribute fully to achieving the Trust’s corporate goals and objectives;
3. That all staff hold themselves personally responsible for the quality of their work and therefore seek to attain the highest standards achievable within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them in furtherance of the Trust’s Vision and in embedding the organisation’s Values.

Confidentiality

Each member of the Trust’s staff is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of any information relating to patients and for complying with all the requirements of the Data Protection Act whilst carrying out the duties of the post. Any breaches in confidentiality will be dealt with by the Trust’s Disciplinary Procedure and may result in dismissal.

Data Protection/Freedom of Information Acts

Carry out any requirements within the duties applicable to the Data Protection Act, 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.



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