Overview
In this role you will provide senior strategic and operational leadership across Brookside Adolescent Inpatient Unit, YPHTT and CAMHS Liaison, ensuring an integrated acute and crisis pathway. You will drive patient flow, safe care, and transformation while engaging cross-system partners to improve outcomes for children and families. The role offers scope to shape service development, governance and performance in a high-impact, collaborative environment. This is an opportunity to lead a multi-service pathway at scale, contributing to a progressive, evidence-based model of care.
Pay / Benefits
- High Cost Area Supplement (Outer London)
- comprehensive induction programme for new starters
- staff development and training
- staff health and wellbeing activities
- equality and diversity initiatives
- Carers UK and disability confidence recognitions
Responsibilities
- Provide senior strategic and operational leadership across three services to deliver an integrated pathway
- Oversee patient flow, admissions, discharges, bed management and alternatives to admission
- Establish interfaces and transfer-of-care processes between services and partners
- Hold accountability for quality, patient safety, performance, workforce and regulatory compliance
- Lead multidisciplinary governance and safe service delivery with clinical leads across disciplines
- Manage performance using a joined-up framework of activity, demand, capacity, finance and experience data
- Drive service transformation, evidence-based improvements and responses to policy and population needs
- Ensure workforce planning, staffing, training, recruitment, supervision and development
- Manage delegated budgets and resources within financial plans and efficiency targets
- Maintain risk management, safeguarding, incident reporting and escalation arrangements
- Develop strong relationships with families, CAMHS, hospitals, local authorities, commissioners and system partners
- Promote collaboration, learning, interoperability and joint working across the three services
- Represent the services at internal and system-level meetings and provide assurance on delivery and improvement
- Deputise for the Assistant Director for CYP ONEL Acute Services as required
Key requirements
- Masters level qualification
- Extensive CAMHS experience
- Management experience at 8a level
- Working within CAMHS services
- collaboration
- inspiring leadership
- stakeholder engagement
- clinical governance
- quality assurance
- risk management
Head of Service - CAMHS in London employer: National Health Service
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment for healthcare professionals in North Wales. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on compassionate care, staff have access to continuous professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact in both acute and community paediatrics. The Health Board's integrated approach ensures that employees are part of a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for the local population.
