Are you looking for an opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and influence the delivery of quality care for children and young people 0-18 with Learning Disabilities? Then this job may be for you.
The LD CAMHS service provides assessment and treatment for young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities who present with mental health concerns and or behaviours that are significantly challenging. The service sees young people up to the age of 18. The service offers a range of interventions including behavioural analysis and positive behavioural intervention, Psychological and medical intervention as appropriate.
The post holder will provide day to day operational leadership and management for the team, reporting directly to the Service Manager of the service and will work closely with the ADHD/ASD Community Team Manager. We are seeking someone with previous management experience excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, and demonstrate NSFT values of safer, kinder, better in your attitude. In return we can offer you opportunities for leadership training and development.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the operational management of the service delivery within the service.
Provide visible leadership, promoting a values-based culture and acting as a role model within the environment.
Responsible for leading and managing the team, ensuring they are suitably trained, informed and competent to carry out the full range of their duties, and that mechanisms are in place for regular and effective supervision, appraisal, objective setting, and personal development planning.
Responsibility for ensuring safe staffing levels are maintained according to service budget.
Responsible for ensuring systems are in place to allocate new caseloads and efficient use of resources to ensure caseloads and the management of caseloads remain safe.
Ensure care is delivered in a patient centred framework involving service users, families, and carers.
NSFT in collaboration with the Suffolk alliance partners are striving to deliver services within the 'Thrive' framework. This is going to require significant system changes across Suffolk to realise the goal of a whole system approach. It will be essential to engage the expertise, skills, experience and passion of clinicians, allied professionals and service users from a wide range of backgrounds, disciplines and specialisms to achieve this goal.
This is an exciting time of Transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, which has created opportunities, not only for services to recognise and consolidate what they are doing well, but also to drive creativity to radically change service delivery. These changes are driven by the needs of local communities, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community and truly bringing the expertise to where it is needed.