(CAMHS) Team Leader

1 week ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS FT Full time

Job summary

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Oldham CAMHS Transitions Service and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities. You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.

You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity. You will work across all CAMHS age groups with a special interest in older adolescents.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Oldham CAMHS.

Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough.

Provide management and clinical supervision to the Mental Health Practitioners within the service.

Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.

Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.

Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.

About us

Children's mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Oldham benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery.

We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOE and Transitions service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:

Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience. Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP. Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence. Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Registered Nurse - Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level

Experience

Essential

Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people. Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group Knowledge and experience of working with older adolescents

Desirable

Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability Evidence of Post qualifying training courses / certificates Experience of screening referrals and allocating to most appropriate service. Experience of managing junior colleagues

Skills

Essential

Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere Ability to act in consultation / supervision / training capacity with professionals Ability to develop liaison / links and familiarity with other professional networks Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention. Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols. Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service Ability to provide leadership for the service Ability to manage and to work autonomously with case load. Ability to work flexibly and innovatively. Good communication skills Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic / aggressive

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