This permanent team leader post sits within the CYPMHS West Herts community service of Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The role combines clinical assessment and therapeutic work with children and young people facing complex trauma and emotional needs, with leading and line managing the clinical team and deputising for the operational manager. The work is split across the St Albans and Hemel Hempstead sites and calls for detailed understanding of neurodiversity and reasonable adjustments. Applicants need NMC registration as a mental health nurse and an enhanced DBS check.
What the job involves
- Assess and treat children, young people and families with complex emotional, psychological and behavioural difficulties, within CAPA and CYP-IAPT principles
- Lead the service with the operational manager and enhanced clinical team leader, covering patient safety, experience, clinical outcomes and performance, and deputise for the operational manager
- Take clinical and line management responsibility for clinical staff, supporting their clinical development
- Oversee referrals into the service, including choice, trusted and GID assessments, duty team, care of waiters and team meetings
- Act as care coordinator, initiating, planning and reviewing care plans and monitoring multidisciplinary interventions
- Manage throughput and key performance indicators using the CAP service transformation model
- Provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees, junior staff and multidisciplinary colleagues
- Work in partnership with local authority colleagues, attending strategic multi-agency meetings and complex needs panels
- Work sensitively with families from diverse racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, including varied family forms
- Promote participation of service users and carers in their own care and in service planning
- Contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development
- Maintain a personal and professional profile in line with post-registration requirements
What’s required
Qualifications
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- Relevant professional registration
- NMC registration as a mental health nurse
Experience
- Post-qualification experience in a CAMHS or related team, or several years' pre-qualification experience, working with moderate to severe mental health problems
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and a range of theoretical approaches
- Knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children, adolescents and their carers or families, and of the research on their effectiveness
- Knowledge of child protection procedures, social care services and legislation
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including explaining complex, clinically sensitive information to families and professionals
- Working therapeutically with young people and their families, and providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups
- Positive problem solving, and participating fully and respectfully in a multidisciplinary team
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Car driver, unless a disability under the Equality Act 2010 prevents driving
Other
- IT skills, including Microsoft Office and Outlook
Nice to have
- Specialist training in an appropriate area
- Knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience of service quality monitoring, such as clinical audit or evaluative research
What’s offered
- 5% high cost area supplement (HCAS) included in pay
- Trust covers the cost of the enhanced DBS check
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
