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Main area: Mental Health Support Team
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5pm)
Job ref: 349-MCH-6788440*
Site: Manchester Thrive in Education team
Town: Manchester
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
MFT Thrive In Education Teams have three core functions:
* Delivering evidence based interventions for mild to moderate mental health presentations
* Supporting the mental health leads in each school/college to support a whole school approach to wellbeing and mental health.
* Providing timely advice and guidance to education staff and liaising with specialist services to support children and young people to receive effective support to remain in education.
Manchester's Thrive In Education team works flexibly in several educational settings, working alongside education colleagues to develop and provide preventive and early help support to meet the needs of their pupils experiencing low intensity mental health issues, mainly anxiety, low mood and emotional regulation.
The team currently consists of a service lead, senior clinicians, supervisors, Education Mental Health Practitioners, Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioners and administrative support. Due to continued expansion, the team is now splitting into North and South Manchester Thrive in Education Teams.
Main duties of the job
The Service Lead will be accountable for ensuring the effective management and delivery of services in their particular service area. You will be accountable to the Head of Early Intervention and Prevention, ensuring the key functions of the role are undertaken through effective management and leadership, collaborative working, supporting the delivery of performance targets, contracted activity levels, quality standards, and quality of services.
This role is predominantly concerned with being a key member of a Clinical Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Head of Early Intervention and Prevention. You will lead innovation and specific projects, as well as create frameworks for enhancing Mental Health Support Teams. While the primary focus of the post will be the clinical leadership of the team, you will be encouraged to foster Greater Manchester links in the overall interests of furthering knowledge and best practice. The role will promote excellence in clinical practice and communicate this to internal and external partners. You will have advanced clinical skills and be expected to spend an agreed amount of your time in clinical practice.
You will also be required to liaise and collaborate with colleagues of all disciplines involved in children and young people’s mental health. There is an expectation that an agreed amount of time will be dedicated to training and development.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
* You must be registered/accredited with a professional body
* Graduate or Clinical Qualification in leadership or management
* Educated to degree/diploma level or equivalent experience
* You must have a recognised qualification
* Experience of leadership and management role within a health and social care setting
* Experience of managing healthcare settings and achieving objectives
* Experience of managing and supervising multi-disciplinary teams
* Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance and service delivery
* Experience in managing safeguarding concerns
* Experience in clinical audit
* Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
* Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing staff effectively
* Effective teamwork and experience of delegating tasks
* Experience of identifying education and training needs of staff
* Experience in complaints and conflict management
* Ability to chair meetings
* Ability to support clinical governance mechanisms
* Ability to work collaboratively with partners
* Ability to lead on outcomes data and data reporting, and deliver relevant reports
* Innovative thinker
* Ability to work flexibly and form sound working relationships
* Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in relation to CAMHS
* Knowledge of relevant clinical research
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
* Negotiating and influencing skills
* Commitment to undertake relevant training and self-directed study
* Commitment to inclusion of young people, parent's and carers views in service delivery, development, and design
* Access to means of transport
* Additional post-graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions
* Experience of CAMHS
* Experience of budgetary management
* Effective leadership and management styles
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: Vicki Dunham
Job title: Head of Early Intervention and Prevention
Email address: vicki.dunham@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 5496451
Please contact Vicki Dunham, Head of Early Intervention and Prevention, for an informal discussion.
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