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Clinical Team Manager - MHST - Oxford, Oxford
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: b35238000f88
Job Views: 5
Posted: 14.02.2025
Expiry Date: 31.03.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
We're looking for a Team manager with a passion for making a real difference to individuals experiencing mental health issues. Mental Health Support Teams aim to meet the mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of children and young people in education settings. MHST’s provide a key element within the Whole School Approach to promote resilience and wellbeing of pupils by supporting earlier intervention and increased access to mental health services.
Main duties of the job
In this hugely important team manager role, you’ll manage and supervise a diverse group of staff from a range of professional backgrounds, provide great leadership with enthusiasm for service transformation and determination to provide outstanding quality of care, ensuring that children and young people are kept at the heart of everything we do. You’ll be responsible for coordinating and motivating the team, having robust oversight of waiting lists and working with key colleagues to ensure continuity of service. As part of this role you will be expected to provide cover to the on-call clinical team managers rota.
Working for our organisation
You'll be able to access opportunities for further training in leadership, quality improvement, and regular opportunities for supervision and case management. Oxfordshire CAMHS is undergoing significant service development (following introduction of the Thrive model). Oxford Health offers excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation, 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.
You'll also be able to attend full induction; we actively encourage professional development, and retain a strong ethos of supporting staff wellbeing.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Staff accommodation
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
People Management
* To take operational responsibility for the Team. This includes monitoring and managing workloads, use of time, operational supervision, authorising leave and expenses.
* To support staff to work in a variety of environments (digital working, office working, and home working) and commit to continuing to develop the teams’ varieties of offers.
* To work in partnership with Key agencies within the counties to ensure robust relationships, safeguarding and shared outcomes for children and young people.
* To support the development of integrated care pathways.
Professional and Education / Training Skills
* Maintains an effective learning environment for the team and all students seconded to the teams.
* Keeps up to date with legislation, evidence-based practice and has a clear understanding of good practice.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and how these can be applied to a CAMHS setting.
* To be able to function as part of a multi-disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies i.e. primary care, education, social and health care.
Experience
* Experience in people management within a Child and Adolescent Mental health service.
* Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness.
* Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others.
* Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community.
* Experience of developing practice (nursing, social work or occupational therapy).
Qualifications
* Allied Health Professional, Mental Health Nursing or Social care Qualification.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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