Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site 78 Lewisham Park
Town London
Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period Yearly
Closing 21/04/2025 23:59
Clinical Service Lead - Maternity Cover
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Symbol Therapy Team is multi-disciplinary with a range of clinicians who work to help and support children and young people who are looked after or adopted. This post is to cover the maternity leave of the substantive Clinical Service Lead who has progressed the team over the past 5 years to a point where the clinical service operates at a high level of functioning, providing assessment, complex assessment and intervention to children and young people, and additionally, providing consultation and support to the network of professionals around these young people including particularly foster carers, adoptive parents and social workers. There is a highly skilled, dedicated, and functional clinical team in place who require the management and support of a skilled and thoughtful leader for the period of the maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
1. To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and management of the Symbol CLA service.
2. The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led, as well as service user and carer focused.
3. To undertake assessments and interventions with children and young people who are looked after or adopted.
4. To provide management and clinical supervision as appropriate.
5. The post holder will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.
6. To contribute at a senior level with colleagues across the service.
Working for our organisation
Lewisham CAMHS is a multi-disciplinary, Community, Schools & Clinic based mental health service for children and young people based in three buildings in Lewisham & Catford; 78 Lewisham Park, Kaleidoscope, Catford & Holbeach Road, Catford. The Symbol Therapy Team is based at 78 Lewisham Park alongside the Adolescent Treatment Team and Child Wellbeing Practitioners.
Lewisham & Catford are vibrant, multi-cultural towns in South East London. They have great transport links and paid parking available locally, as well as a few free parking spaces at the clinic site (first come, first served). There are some interesting independent shops, cafes and green spaces which enhance the environment.
Lewisham CAMHS has expanded rapidly over the past few years with the introduction of Child Wellbeing and Schools Mental Health Teams. The Symbol Therapy Team is well established, longstanding and highly regarded within the service and by outside agencies.
There is pressure everywhere in the NHS at present, and Lewisham CAMHS is not exempt from this, but the senior leadership and management team are supportive and encouraging, and there is a culture of regular clinical and management supervision.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Leadership
1. To support the development of a culture that promotes leadership through coaching in accordance with Trust standards and protocols.
2. To line manage and performance manage team leaders/managers in accordance with Trust standards and protocols.
3. To line manage and performance manage team to assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles.
4. Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care.
5. To ensure the effective operational management of the CAMHS service in providing services which are in accordance with the objectives of the CAMHS / and achievement of key performance targets.
6. To recruit/develop team leaders/managers who meet the organisational standards and measure performance against leadership and management competencies adopted by the Trust.
7. To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers.
Team Management
1. To ensure that services are developed and provided that are of the highest standard in terms of accessibility, consistent with SLAM’s values.
2. To ensure (in conjunction with the Service Manager, Heads of Professions and Lead Clinicians) that practice within the team meets relevant standards, is appropriate, timely, safe and follows agreed professional practice.
3. To provide immediate advice and direction to all members of the Service, and others in relation to complex organisational practice situations as necessary.
4. To work in conjunction with the Service Manager to develop effective quality assurance and performance systems that support performance against CAMHS KPIs and provide staff with feedback on their performance.
5. To establish and maintain effective working relationships and new working arrangements with colleagues, children and young people, parents and other key stakeholders.
6. To ensure that staff engage in regular meetings, training and team building with the goal of promoting a working environment that is open, honest, supportive and outward looking.
Staff Management
1. To ensure the effective use of human resources ensuring safe levels of staffing which reflect the necessary and appropriate skill mix.
2. To ensure that all staff are in receipt of regular appraisal and professional development support, liaising with Heads of profession and training departments as appropriate.
3. Provide demonstrable assurance that all staff are receiving appraisal and personal development plans that include mandatory training and clinical supervision to enable the workforce to be fit for practice.
4. To provide demonstrable assurance that service lines comply with all mandatory reporting and assurance frameworks to enable the Trust to achieve compliance.
5. To ensure that all staff are trained and participate in regular audit.
6. To ensure that all staff are trained to understand and make optimum use of electronic systems that facilitate service delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications & Registration
1. A professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Professional's Council (HPC/ HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
2. MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health
3. Completed training course in clinical supervision.
4. Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
1. Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff.
2. Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
3. Experience of supervision of other staff.
4. Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal.
5. Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
6. Experience of providing a clinical service to children and young people who are in care or who have been adopted.
Knowledge & Skills
1. Highly specialist knowledge of childhood disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties and attachment disorders and theories of child development.
2. Knowledge of legislation and national policy in relation to Looked After Children and mental health issues, including the Children Act, safeguarding children and the Mental Health Act.
3. Awareness of racial and diversity issues and their impact on service access, through attendance of relevant training.
4. Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to children, young people, families and colleagues.
5. Well developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team and/or other professional groups.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
1. Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
2. Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
3. We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
1. That all applications for this post will need to be made online
2. That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
3. That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
4. That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
5. That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
6. That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
7. That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
8. That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name John Lincoln
Job title Clinical Lead, Risk Support Service
Email address john.lincoln@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number 07935104449
Please email if you would like to make contact to discuss this post.
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