The post holder will clinically lead Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service (EHWS), including the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (EHWP) team and the growing Mental Health Support Teams (MHST).
This role will provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring effective implementation and ongoing delivery of service pathways and protocols in order that the service can deliver a safe and effective, high-quality compassionate service.
The post holder will lead on the continued implementation and provision of a high-quality schools-based early intervention service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will lead the MHST's in delivering evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service. They will lead the EHWP's in delivering advice and guidance to professionals. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards. The post holder will utilise their skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice, and knowledge of whole school approaches to mental health, to clinically lead the EHWS across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Furthermore, the successful candidate will:
1. Develop positive working relationships with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people, and their families.
2. Recruit and retain a workforce needed to implement the MHST programme.
3. Lead on future further MHST roll out.
4. Develop pathways for referrals into and around the system, working closely with YOUnited leads.
5. Work closely with their counterpart(s) in Norfolk and Waveney, providing holiday cover and peer support.
6. Develop and maintain systems and pathways for safe and effective multidisciplinary, multi-agency working within education settings.
7. Develop and implement ongoing evaluation of impact measures, feeding data to the Mental Health Data Set, and other required reporting mechanisms.
8. Work closely with the University of East Anglia (UEA), who are the training provider for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP's).
9. Represent the Trust both internally and externally to numerous stakeholders from a range of services and organisations.
The post holder will clinically lead the EHWS by:
1. Being responsible for the recruitment of a workforce that can deliver the MHST model, including leading the roll out of subsequent teams.
2. Being responsible for the development of a workforce that can implement interventions that are evidence-based and within the clinical competencies of the developing workforce.
3. Developing and maintaining systems and pathways for safe and effective multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working within a range of settings.
4. Developing and implementing ongoing evaluation of impact measures with quarterly reporting.
5. Leading on research in the field of Early Intervention mental health services for Children, Young People, families, and their education establishments.
6. Modelling excellent clinical practice and clinical work, working across the service.
7. Developing working relationships and regular professional liaison and feedback with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people, and their families.
8. Delivering a service with excellent clinical governance, in accordance with Trust Processes.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for the work of the EHWS across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. This includes:
1. Exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of therapeutic practice within the service, delivered by regulated, registered and unregistered staff groups.
2. Reporting to multiple commissioners and stakeholders, including the Department of Education, Health Education England, NHSE, the Integrated Care Board, Cambridgeshire County Council, and Peterborough County Council.
3. Leading across partners with the implementation of the strategic priorities from the Government Green Paper.
4. Leading on the long-term roll out, expansion, and delivery of the MHST program.
5. Representing MHST's and the Trust in the YOUnited partnership work, developing and implementing new pathways and processes across iThrive.
6. Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, contributing to and shaping as appropriate.
7. Reporting clinical outcomes to the Mental Health Services Data set, ensuring Access Targets are met.
8. Proposing, devising, and implementing clinical policies, pathways, and reports for the service that embed best clinical practice.
9. Being responsible for clinical supervision structures for staff, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.
10. Developing and implementing a co-production plan, ensuring the 'voice of the child/young person' is pivotal in all aspects of clinical practice and development.
11. Collating and reporting feedback for the service from a range of stakeholders, including children and young people, implementing findings.
12. Ensuring the internal Risk Register accurately captures information and is updated on a regular basis.
13. Promoting a culture of incident reporting, leading Serious Incident investigations when appropriate and ensuring learning takes place to affect appropriate change.
14. Adhering to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes and ensuring adherence within the Team.
15. Ensuring accessible management information is regularly used for service improvement and reporting via SystemOne data sets, suitable technology/systems development and in compliance with Trust Information Governance (and all relevant legislation) standards.
16. Presenting reporting of impact, outcomes, and feedback as well as service productivity and leading clinical and other audits as required.
17. Maintaining registration throughout employment with an appropriate professional body.
18. Undertaking mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust including regular safeguarding training.
19. Participating in safeguarding children supervision as required within the remit of the role.
20. Providing patients and their families/carers with information on standards they should expect from the team.
21. Participating in clinical supervision on a regular basis according to professional and Trust guidelines.
22. Actively consulting and obtaining relevant management and or clinical support and supervision where necessary to carry out duties.
23. Participating in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
24. Ensuring staff within the MHST are aware of and execute their responsibilities with regard to the safeguarding children and adults agenda, confidentiality, Trust and professional training requirements, data protection and sharing, information governance, risk management and reporting, and all relevant legislation and Trust and local policy.
25. Strategic development of the service within the local landscape - working with multiple partner agencies to identify gaps and determine the best use of resources to meet needs.
26. Strategic lead for EHWS for the Trust, attending and participating in board meetings, strategic meetings, operational meetings, and steering groups.
Communication
High-level liaison required with heads of departments, across multiple agencies (Health, Education, Social Care, Early Help, third sector etc.), as well as government departments (Department for Education) and Universities. This includes:
1. Balancing multiple conflicting demands from a county-wide service, as well as ensuring responsiveness to partner organisations, stakeholders, and multiple commissioners.
2. Acting autonomously at a strategic level, analysing multiple conflicting demands and outcomes, making decisions independently that impact on service delivery.
3. Writing bids for funding to support the growth of the service.
4. Leading on recruitment.
5. Leading on Human Resources investigations for CCS, in line with multiple policies and SOP's.
6. Representing the EHWS and CCS at multi-agency Child Death Overview Panels.
7. Establishing effective working relationships so that the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people is promoted.
8. Writing and delivering teaching to a range of staff, translating complex psychological concepts into accessible and relevant training.
9. Developing morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring the Trust values of Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, and Respect are embedded.
10. Effective communication on complex issues to a wide range of audiences, including senior management level and children, young people, and families, in order to inform and influence decisions.
11. Ensuring children, young people, and their carers/families are aware of the standards they would expect from the service.
12. Management of complaints within HEAR Trust values.
13. Undertaking communication with patients and families that may be of a distressing or highly distressing nature.
14. Attending performance meetings, where appropriate, to represent the service/clinical specialty.
15. Responsible for the implementation of the delegated actions from service plans, through effective communication and briefings to staff and other stakeholders.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
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In submitting an application, you authorise Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.
Are you a psychological professional, mental health nurse, systemic family therapist, or social worker with further therapeutic qualifications?
Do you have experience leading children's mental health services?
Are you looking for a senior leadership role in early intervention services, where you can use your clinical and leadership experience, to lead an amazing workforce of dedicated staff, working closely across the health and education sectors?
We have a brilliant opportunity for the right candidate to clinically lead our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The successful post holder will lead on the continued implementation and provision of a high-quality schools-based early intervention service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will also lead the MHST's in delivering evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service and the EHWP's in delivering advice and guidance to professionals. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.
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Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high-quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long-term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns, and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
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