General Manager CYPS CT Northeast Hampshire in Aldershot

This role provides day‑to‑day coordination and leadership of the CYPS Community Team (CCT) & Early Help in Northeast Hampshire. Working closely with fellow managers, clinical leads and partners across the organisation, you will drive continuous service development. The post holder ensures all activity reflects the CYPS philosophy and aligns with current best‑practice guidelines. A key responsibility is to ensure the service operates safely, effectively and efficiently within the wider emotional health and wellbeing system, following the principles of the iTHRIVE framework. You will support a culture where children, young people and families are empowered to identify, plan and meet their own needs. Central to the role is maintaining a strong focus on the experience of children and young people, ensuring their voice informs all decision‑making. You will build positive, responsive relationships with colleagues across the Hampshire system, and provide leadership on clinically complex and challenging cases where required.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and management for the team within the Getting Help and Getting more Help based groupings of the iTHRIVE framework.
• Develop, review and maintain effective systems to ensure the service meets national, CQC, local and Trust standards, policies, guidelines and service plans in line with SABP's vision.
• Contribute to strategic planning to support the development and sustainability of the team.
• Support the transformation of the team and the wider iTHRIVE system, ensuring new contract requirements and additional funding are implemented effectively to deliver our SABP vision.
• Ensure robust systems are in place for comprehensive assessment, formulation and treatment pathway planning.
• Work across organisational boundaries to ensure children's emotional health and wellbeing in Northeast Hampshire is delivered through a coordinated, systemic, inter‑agency approach.
• Ensure inter‑agency protocols operate effectively and align with agreed care pathways for children and young people accessing emotional health and wellbeing services.
• Represent children and young people at multi‑agency forums, steering groups and borough‑wide working groups, ensuring their needs and experiences inform system‑level decisions.

About Us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill‑health and learning disabilities in Surrey and Northeast Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire. We actively engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. We look forward to receiving your application!

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• Professional qualification at Diploma/Degree level i.e. RMN, or equivalent in social work, occupational therapy, psychotherapy, clinical psychology, or other such clinical professions and hold a professional membership (e.g. NMC, HCPC).

Desirable Qualifications

• Leadership/Management qualification or relevant training.

Essential Experience

• Experience of developing strategies that promotes an environment of user involvement and recovery and promote Health and Social Governance.
• Have a minimum of 3 years relevant management/leadership experience in a children's and adolescent mental health service.
• Have a minimum of 5 years' experience working with children and adolescents with mental health needs.

Desirable Experience

• Experience of transformation.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Alderston Centre for Health
Hospital Hill
Aldershot
GU11 1AY