Job summary
CAMHS Matron: Front Door & Urgent Care
Band 8a
Full-time substantive post working across Coventry & Warwickshire.
Are you a registered professional with a passion for improving children's mental health services?
We are welcoming applications for the post of CAMHS Matron: Front Door & Urgent Care within our Integrated Children's Directorate, supporting us with our Trust strategy for delivering high-quality care consistently across our services.
We're looking for someone who is confident in their clinical knowledge to play an instrumental role in policy and practice development, including risk assessments and audits. You'll support with assurance reporting, preparation for CQC and other external assessments or inspections.
This role is suited to an inspiring leader with an innovative and creative approach to problem-solving. You will be responsible for providing professional and clinical leadership, that supports evidence-based child-centred intervention to drive development within our children's specialist mental health service.
This is a brilliant opportunity for the right individual to be part of the continued transformation and development of CAMHS Urgent Care & Front Door. This post is suitable for a Nurse or Allied Health Professional with relevant knowledge, experience, and skills.
Main duties of the job
You will need to demonstrate the aptitude to be an optimistic, resilient and visible leader, who can identify and harness the opportunities for cycles of change that enable sustainable transformation and deliver quality coproduced services which are responsive to the needs and circumstances of young people.
You'll work within a Quality and Safety team who support the development and implementation of systems, structures, and processes to promote high-quality clinical services that make a real difference.
The Matron will work in collaboration with the Service Manager/s with responsibility of ensuring the delivery of the clinical pathways within the Urgent Care and Front Door. Included in this role, the post holder will:
Have specialist Knowledge of the range of young people's mental health problems.
An awareness of recent changes and current issues in mental health service provision.
Contribute to complex case work embedded in evidence-based practice
Provide clinical advice to colleagues within urgent care services and external agencies.
Oversee and contribute to expert clinical practice as a professional lead.
Influence quality and safety standards and practice through evaluation and monitoring.
Support changes in practice and service delivery through role modelling and leadership.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
staff networks and support groups.
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached supporting information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration with significant post-qualification experience.
Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level.
Working knowledge of the Health and Social Care system including Mental Health.
Experience
Essential
Significant and demonstrable experience post-qualification.
Evidence of delivering successful operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in patient and staff experience and outcomes.
Demonstrable experience across mental health and/or related services.
Ability to deal with difficult and complex complaints, concerns and incidents.
Relevant experience of implementing operational planning with oversight of clinical effectiveness and outcomes.
Knowledge
Essential
Extensive and senior working knowledge of applicable legislation including the MHA, SCA and MCA.
Ability to understand complex data and information including written reports.
Capable of working under pressure, to deadline and within a team and/or own initiative.
Ability to facilitate a clinical MDT together and facilitate complex decision making for the best clinical outcome.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached supporting information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration with significant post-qualification experience.
Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level.
Working knowledge of the Health and Social Care system including Mental Health.
Experience
Essential
Significant and demonstrable experience post-qualification.
Evidence of delivering successful operational performance management and clearly demonstrating improvement in patient and staff experience and outcomes.
Demonstrable experience across mental health and/or related services.
Ability to deal with difficult and complex complaints, concerns and incidents.
Relevant experience of implementing operational planning with oversight of clinical effectiveness and outcomes.
Knowledge
Essential
Extensive and senior working knowledge of applicable legislation including the MHA, SCA and MCA.
Ability to understand complex data and information including written reports.
Capable of working under pressure, to deadline and within a team and/or own initiative.
Ability to facilitate a clinical MDT together and facilitate complex decision making for the best clinical outcome.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel for work purposes and have access to an independent means of transport.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level
- Evidence of other leadership training and commitment to personal development
- Professional NMC/HCPC registration with significant post-qualification experience
- Working knowledge of the Health and Social Care system including Mental Health
- Extensive operational experience in a clinical setting
Experience
Essential
- Significant and demonstrable experience post-qualification
- Experienced in working with other teams, internally and externally, to manage operational issues in a clinical setting.
- Demonstrable experience across mental health and/or related services
- Relevant experience of managing clinical services, stakeholder management; and partnership working at a senior level both internally and externally
- Experience of driving impactful service change
- Significant senior management experience within a range of clinical settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a Masters level or demonstrable knowledge at the same level
- Evidence of other leadership training and commitment to personal development
- Professional NMC/HCPC registration with significant post-qualification experience
- Working knowledge of the Health and Social Care system including Mental Health
- Extensive operational experience in a clinical setting
Experience
Essential
- Significant and demonstrable experience post-qualification
- Experienced in working with other teams, internally and externally, to manage operational issues in a clinical setting.
- Demonstrable experience across mental health and/or related services
- Relevant experience of managing clinical services, stakeholder management; and partnership working at a senior level both internally and externally
- Experience of driving impactful service change
- Significant senior management experience within a range of clinical settings.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
