Job summary
This post is 0.8 WTE CAMHS senior clinical team leadership post for the CAMH Access Service Pathway (CAS) in Central Bedfordshire, and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people with early signs of mental health problems and their families.
Working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Deputy Associate Clinical Director (Professions Lead - non medical), and other Clinical Team Leads, the post holder will form part of the senior clinical leadership for the service. You will provide inspirational leadership of multidisciplinary clinicians to ensure effective, early, and evidence based assessment and treatment, accessible care pathways and a culture of continuous quality improvement in the service.
Main duties of the job
The service employs a resilience-based model of practice, endeavours to develop its capacity to co-produce its needs-based offer with all stakeholders, and to move to greater community-based integration of the early intervention offer with other children's services partners. The Lead will ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards.
You will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and 2 building capability to deliver positive and measureable outcomes for children and young people and their families.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification regarding this vacancy or please contact Marc Van Roosmalen - marcvanroosmalen@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification regarding this vacancy or please contact Marc Van Roosmalen - marcvanroosmalen@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Honours degree.
- Postgraduate Diploma / MA in Psychoanalytical Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child & Adolescent. or Clinical/Counselling Psychology Honours degree.
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. or
- Family & Systemic Psychotherapy Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Nursing or Counselling.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing senior clinical leadership
- Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
- Experience of leading clinical CAMHS service developments
- Experience of representing the service a multi-agency strategic planning level groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide senior clinical leadership and management across disciplines
- Ability to take a lead in service developments
- Ability to liaise and consult with other agencies effectively
- Skills in project management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Honours degree.
- Postgraduate Diploma / MA in Psychoanalytical Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child & Adolescent. or Clinical/Counselling Psychology Honours degree.
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. or
- Family & Systemic Psychotherapy Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Nursing or Counselling.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing senior clinical leadership
- Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
- Experience of leading clinical CAMHS service developments
- Experience of representing the service a multi-agency strategic planning level groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide senior clinical leadership and management across disciplines
- Ability to take a lead in service developments
- Ability to liaise and consult with other agencies effectively
- Skills in project management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
