Clinical Team Leader

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us

**JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

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**Job overview**:
Are you an experienced Manager or Clinician with a passion for working creatively?

Can you demonstrate your ability to operationally manage Service Delivery, line manage and supervise clinical colleagues and work alongside a Principle Clinical Psychologist, ensuring a responsive and high-quality Service delivery to our Young People?

Could you work collaboratively with our partners at Unity Education Trust providing professional leadership and governance working with the team to maintain compliance with Trust policies?

Do you have experience and knowledge of delivering intervention with children, young people and families who have experienced significant levels of trauma?

If the answer is yes, yes, yes, we have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Team Lead and/or Community Team Manager to join us within the Compass Schools provision; a role being offered to cover Maternity Leave, predominantly based in Belton (near Great Yarmouth).

**Main duties of the job**:
**Working for our organisation**:
A bit about us; we are Compass Schools, a therapeutic education provision, based in Norfolk, providing a therapeutic education provision to children and young people’ in Partnership with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Unity Trust.

Within our Belton School we offer mental health provision catering for up to 25 young people ranging from Key Stage 1 to the end of Key Stage 3. All of our pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) with a Primary need of Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties. The Compass Schools provides a range of therapeutic services for these vulnerable children, young people and their families.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Demonstrate your ability to operationally manage Service Delivery, line manage and supervise clinical colleagues and work alongside a Principle Clinical Psychologist, ensuring a responsive and high-quality Service delivery to our Young People.

Work collaboratively with our partners at Unity Education Trust providing professional leadership and governance working with the team to maintain compliance with Trust policies.

Deliver intervention with children, young people and families who have experienced significant levels of trauma.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered

**Desirable criteria**:

- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management/supervisi on experience
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team
- Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent communication skills
- Competent assessment skills, relevant to profession
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills
- Care planning skills
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on / develop further know