Job overview
Do you have patient-facing management experience and want to try a new area or develop your skills further?
Are you committed to supporting good clinical practice and the delivery of innovative interventions?
Do you like creating systems, supporting staff, and supporting change?
Do you enjoy working with children and young people, and their families?
Do you enjoy working under pressure, where two days are never alike? If yes, then this role might be for you!
Oxfordshire CAMHS Link and Autism & LD Liaison Team is looking for a Clinical Team Manager to cover Maternity Leave for 12 months.
You will be based at Raglan House, Cowley.
We'll need you to have a keen interest to work within CAMHS and a strong interest in working with children and young people in complex situations.
Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply.
Main duties of the job
You will manage an experienced group of clinicians who work with young people and their families across Oxfordshire. You will also develop close working links with a wide range of Community CAMHS teams and have a close-knit group of peers with the other CAMHS Clinical Team Managers.
We believe passionately in a culture of good work/life balance and support well-being, training, and development.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There are opportunities for further training in leadership, and quality improvement, and regular opportunities for supervision, individually and in group with other team managers.
The service offers excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation, teaching, and training. We have good supervision and operational structures and an excellent track record of CPD. The service is also committed to evidence-based and evidence generating practice and you will have the opportunity to be part of and support service evaluation and Quality Improvement projects.
The post holder will be given full induction, actively encourages professional development, and retains a strong ethos of supporting staff wellbeing.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
12. Experience of managing people
Desirable criteria
13. Experience of developing services
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. Professional Health or Social care Qualification
15. Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness.
Desirable criteria
16. Management qualification Teaching/mentoring qualification
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
17. Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and application
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
18. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
19. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
20. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
21. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
22. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
23. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
24. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
25. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing