CAMHS Team Manager - Neurodevelopmental Team in Stockport

Are you a qualified mental health professional with a drive to lead and develop services for children and young people? This is a new and exciting role as a Team Manager in the Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team covering the South CAMHS teams - Stockport and Tameside.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking Trust committed to improving mental health outcomes.
• Work in a supportive team with opportunities for supervision, training, and career development.
• Contribute to innovative service models and strategic partnerships across Greater Manchester.
• Access to NHS benefits including pension scheme, annual leave, and wellbeing support.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake responsibility for the line management of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Be part of the senior leadership team within CAMHS.
• Ensure team compliance with relevant Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
• Hold regular team meetings and develop the team.
• Overall responsibility of day-to-day organisation of staff and work priorities of the team.
• Responsible for patient flow within the team considering capacity and demand.
• Work with clinical leaders to determine prioritisation of allocation of work.
• Manage and maintain systems for the planning and allocation of work and for the setting and reviewing of targets, standards and priorities to the team.
• Responsible for management of waiting lists if in place.
• Ensure team members hold balanced and manageable caseloads.
• Ensure all team members receive management and clinical supervision.
• Facilitate the management of complaints, comments and compliments.
• Provide Team Manager cover in other service areas as required.
• Ensure the team maintain accurate and contemporaneous records.
• Ensure data quality.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
• Access to Continued Professional Development.
• Involvement in improvement and research activities.
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.

Job responsibilities

• To provide line management and clinical leadership to an identified team within the CAMHS Care Hub.
• To lead in accordance with trust policies, procedures and values.
• To be accountable to the Operational Manager for the performance management of the team and the quality of the work undertaken.
• To have oversight and manage supervision for team members undertaking clinical interventions such as assessment and a range of interventions/managing caseloads.
• To provide clinical support and leadership to the team alongside clinical leaders.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Registered core profession (social work, OT, nursing) with current registration; Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Desirable: Management or leadership qualification.

Experience

• Essential: Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child and adolescent mental health service or adult mental health services; Experience in the provision of clinical and line management supervision and annual appraisal.

Knowledge

• Essential: Highly developed knowledge of mental health issues in children and 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; Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems for children and young people; Knowledge of risk management issues.
• Desirable: Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability; Evidence of post-qualifying training courses/certificates.

Skills

• Essential: Evidence of the ability to lead, motivate and manage a group; Ability to manage own emotions and deal with others in highly charged situations; Experience of governance processes, including responding to complaints and completing investigations following incidents; Ability to manage the performance of staff in a consistent and sensitive manner; Ability to produce written reports that are clear, unambiguous and produced with agreed timescales; Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs; Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and where individuals may be antagonistic/aggressive.