37.5 hours per week.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) within Livewell Southwest has the opportunity to really shape Children Young People and Family Services.
The Clinical Pathway Manager role is an exciting role where you will lead on two areas of development using the Anna Freud iThrive framework to inform the pathway development. The two pathways are the Infant Mental Health Pathway 0- rising 5 years and the Early Help Pathway 5-18 years. The role really enables you to focus on prevention and early intervention promoting the best outcomes for infants, children, young people, and families.
In this role, you will be responsible for oversight in relation to line management of staff and appraisals. You will need to be passionate about developing accessible services and be able to be flexible in your approach to support the pathways and service development.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic candidate who will enjoy working in a fast-paced progressive environment and will be working towards developing outstanding pathways.
You will have an understanding of child and adolescent mental health and be passionate about early intervention. You must have experience of managing/developing a team, good communication skills, and the ability to work to time-restricted deadlines. As an Operational Manager, the Post Holder will be required to participate in the Operational Managers On-Call Rota, if requested to do so by the Chief Operating Officer.
Main duties of the job
- Infant Pathway focus is on parent-infant mental health, inclusive of early intervention prior to birth, direct work, and group intervention until the age of rising five years.
- The Early Help Pathway focus is on school-aged delivering, training, consultation, assessment, group work, and direct intervention until the age of 18 years. In this part of the role, you will work closely with the other Early Help Pathway Manager; duties are divided equally.
- Improve children and young people's mental health through the effective delivery of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), providing safe, effective, timely, and accessible services that are responsive to the needs of local children, young people, and their families.
- Case/line management and appraisals of staff in line with policy.
- Chairing regular team meetings and attending the Senior CAMHS Business meeting on a regular basis.
- Monitoring and developing work streams, RTT, evaluation, and monitoring requirements.
- Promote and embed national and local work to reduce the stigma associated with mental health.
- Support the development ACCESS.
- Ensure professional engagement with partner agencies in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of effective multi-agency services.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible, and collaborative. We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Valuing our employees and making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
- Leadership & mentoring programmes
- Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
- A Robust Preceptorship
- A bespoke induction programme
- Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- At least three years of experience in line management responsibility for one or more multidisciplinary teams, where the team remit has included work with children, young people, and their families experiencing mental health problems.
- Post-qualifying experience of clinical assessment, evaluation, care planning, and risk management in work with those experiencing mental health problems.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to professionals working with children and young people experiencing mental health problems.
- Culturally competent practice with people from a range of diverse backgrounds.
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