Job summary
North Bedfordshire CAMHS
CAMHS Clinical Team Lead for Bedford CAMHS Emotional & Behavioural Pathway (EBT3) - Band 8c
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement, rated Outstanding by CQC. Children's Mental Health Services across Bedford's ICB area were ranked overall top in the country in the Children's Commissioner Report for the last 2 years.
We are looking for an exceptional and experienced CAMHS Clinician who is excited to lead one of our core team, to maintain our high standards and innovate for continued improvement. We would welcome applications from senior clinicians from a core CAMHS discipline (Child Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, Nursing or Social Workers) who are able to provide senior clinical leadership and operational management.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to shape the clinical, professional, strategic and partnership agenda of the Bedfordshire CAMH service. They will have the support of the CAMHS Senior Leadership Team.
The Bedford Borough Core CAMHS team consists of a wide range of professions including nursing, arts therapies, psychology, family therapy and psychiatry. We are dedicated to supporting the development of our workforce and ensuring that there are opportunities for training and team away days. As a Trust and in our local service we are working hard to support staff well-being and address inequalities (for our service users and our workforce). We are committed to encouraging open dialogues about challenges and difficult topics and ensuring that the Trust values are evident in how we deliver our service and work together.
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
You will be based in our clinic in Bedford which has excellent transport links and first class personal and professional development opportunities in an award-winning Trust. The Trusts inpatient and community CAMHS services have recently been rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
For more details please see attached JD
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be based in our clinic in Bedford which has excellent transport links and first class personal and professional development opportunities in an award-winning Trust. The Trusts inpatient and community CAMHS services have recently been rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
For more details please see attached JD
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification
- Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing senior clinical leadership
- Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
- Experience of contributing to service developments
- Experience of representing the service a multi-agency strategic planning level groups
- Experience of partnership working with other agencies
- Experience of multiagency consultation and organising and delivering training and presentations
- Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes
- Significant post-qualification experience including substantial multidisciplinary experience of working with children, adolescents, families and groups
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Significant experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Experience of effective working with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies
- Experience of taking part in a range of quality initiatives to develop practice
- Experience in the use of routine outcome monitoring Experience of managing healthcare assurance systems
Desirable
- Experience of service user involvement
Skills
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
- A high level of clinical skill
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Ability to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Ability to compare and select form a range of treatment options, based on formulation
- Ability to supervise clinically at an advanced level
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and support other staff in the same
- Ability to contribute to service management and service development at a senior level
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and to adapt approach according to need
- Ability to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge
- IT skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Ability to record and report on clinical information
- Financial management and analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge within own clinical discipline and sufficient knowledge of other disciplines / modalities to provide overall psychological therapies leadership
- Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
- Knowledge of clinical risk management systems and processes
- Up to date knowledge of NICE and other best practice guidelines
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for the CAMHS client group
- Knowledge, understanding and clinical experience with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social exclusion and marginalisation
- Knowledge of current developments within CAMHS, in particular CYP IAPT
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
Desirable
- Knowledge of quality improvement techniques
- Knowledge of routine outcome monitoring (ROM)
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification
- Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing senior clinical leadership
- Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
- Experience of contributing to service developments
- Experience of representing the service a multi-agency strategic planning level groups
- Experience of partnership working with other agencies
- Experience of multiagency consultation and organising and delivering training and presentations
- Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes
- Significant post-qualification experience including substantial multidisciplinary experience of working with children, adolescents, families and groups
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Significant experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Experience of effective working with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies
- Experience of taking part in a range of quality initiatives to develop practice
- Experience in the use of routine outcome monitoring Experience of managing healthcare assurance systems
Desirable
- Experience of service user involvement
Skills
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
- A high level of clinical skill
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Ability to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Ability to compare and select form a range of treatment options, based on formulation
- Ability to supervise clinically at an advanced level
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and support other staff in the same
- Ability to contribute to service management and service development at a senior level
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and to adapt approach according to need
- Ability to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge
- IT skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Ability to record and report on clinical information
- Financial management and analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge within own clinical discipline and sufficient knowledge of other disciplines / modalities to provide overall psychological therapies leadership
- Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
- Knowledge of clinical risk management systems and processes
- Up to date knowledge of NICE and other best practice guidelines
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for the CAMHS client group
- Knowledge, understanding and clinical experience with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social exclusion and marginalisation
- Knowledge of current developments within CAMHS, in particular CYP IAPT
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
Desirable
- Knowledge of quality improvement techniques
- Knowledge of routine outcome monitoring (ROM)
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).
