Team Lead

Job Overview
Are you ready to lead with impact, compassion, and purpose?
We're seeking a dynamic, values-driven professional to become Team Leader for Cannock and Seisdon CAMHS – a key leadership role within a passionate, skilled, and evolving team supporting children and young people's mental health across South Staffordshire.

At Cannock and Seisdon CAMHS, we don't just deliver care — we build trusted relationships, support families through their toughest moments, and advocate fiercely for the young people we serve. As Team Leader, you'll hold the team together, drive high standards, and make sure no child is left behind.

We're Looking For Someone Who

• Is an experienced mental health professional
• Brings confident leadership, clinical credibility, and calm under pressure
• Believes in empowering young people and families
• Balances compassion with accountability
• Leads change, not just manages rotas
• Can manage people and financial resources innovatively in a challenged system

Why Join Us?
Make a visible difference in a community where leadership matters

Work in a service that's actively improving – with strong senior support and room to shape local delivery

Lead a talented, resilient, and committed team

Access development, mentorship, and progression opportunities

Be part of a Trust that values integrity, innovation, and tenacity

Main duties of the job

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians delivering core CAMHS interventions
• Managing day-to-day operations and team performance including reviewing data and creating action plans to improve our service
• Creating a culture of psychological safety, shared responsibility, and inclusion
• Driving service development and improvement in collaboration with service managers and senior clinicians
• Supporting staff wellbeing, supervision structures, and development

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for detailed description of responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications And Training
Essential criteria

• Core profession qualification relevant to children's mental health / social care
• Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Art Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Family Therapist, CYP trained CBT Therapist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
• Relevant professional registration with NMC, SWE, HCPC, UKCP (Child Practitioner), or ACP or be accredited with BABCP (beyond First Accreditation Audit)

Desirable criteria

• PG qualification in evidenced based treatment
• Leadership/Management Qualification
• Training in therapeutic modality relevant to children's mental health
• Further training in a specific psychological model / intervention specific to the role remit/area of work
• Specific therapy or counselling qualification.
• Qualification / training in supervision

Experience
Essential criteria

• Evidence of substantial experience of assessment and intervention with children and young people with highly complex mental health needs and their families.
• Experience of effectively initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating operational processes.
• Evidence of improving service delivery in line with evidence-based practice.
• Demonstrable experience of effective multi-disciplinary team working.
• Experience of managing own caseload efficiently to reduce waiting times and minimise DNAs.
• Ability to write clear reports and letters to a professional network.
• Ability to meet agreed/specific service targets.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of inputting into Health Roster system (or equivalent electronic system to input staff absence, sickness.
• Experience of delivering group work, particularly parenting programmes. Experience with delivering attachment-based assessments and interventions.

Skills, Knowledge And Abilities
Essential criteria

• Higher level clinical skills in the assessment, treatment and management of patients of the relevant age group.
• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation and policy and challenges facing NHS providers.
• Commitment to continuous training and professional development.
• Ability to address the needs of individuals from differing cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• Management and supervision skills.
• Resource management skills.
• Ability to use and interrogate Trust information systems.
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills.

Desirable criteria

• Project management skills.
• Skills in leading quality improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge and experience of audit processes.
• Experience or knowledge of using specialist assessment tools such as CORC outcome tools (SDQ, Goal based Outcomes).
• Experience or knowledge of providing group work for service users.
• Formal training in the supervision of other clinicians.

Personal Attriutes

Essential criteria

• Acts as a role model in the delivery of high quality, effective patient care.
• Able to cope under pressure and provide reassurance and direction to other staff members.
• Be a reflective practitioner and develop own competence and support others to do so.
• Commitment to the Trust Values and Behaviours.