East London CAMHS Crisis Clinical Team Manager

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic CAMHS Crisis Team Manager who is passionate about crisis management and ensures safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high-risk population.

This is a 12-month Secondment Role and would therefore require current line manager approval for the successful candidate.

East London CAMHS Crisis Service delivers coordinated care to children, young people (up to the age of 18 years old), and their families in mental health crisis across City & Hackney, Newham & Tower Hamlets.

The Crisis Service works in close collaboration with the Specialist CAMHS, Adult Psychiatric Liaison Services, local authorities, and emergency services. The service is available 24 hours/7 days per week.

The Service sits within the CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Pathway, alongside East London CAMHS Eating Disorder Service, CAMHS Home Treatment Team, and DBT Team.

The service works closely with colleagues within the sub-directorate, as well as colleagues within our community CAMHS service and external partners.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be managerially and operationally responsible for all aspects of the service delivery for the East London CAMHS Crisis Team. This task will be delivered in conjunction with the Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Service Manager through effective leadership.

The post holder will supervise and ensure that the clinical team provides high-quality services to the local population. The post holder will lead on contributing to a positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team and lead on innovative developments in the service.

The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The post-holder will produce reports on developments for managers and multi-agency partners.

Job responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership in a continuous quest for improving professional development, performance, and quality, promoting a clear sense of direction within the team that is in keeping with the achievement of the Service's objectives and modernization of services.
• Provide inspirational operational and clinical leadership of disciplinary clinicians in the team to ensure young people experiencing serious mental illness have access to evidence-based assessments and interventions.
• Ensure that effective operational procedures are in place to allow the delivery of a responsive service that fully meets the relevant needs of the children, young people, and their families.
• Ensure the team has strong and effective links with other relevant services across the localities, including representing the service on appropriate multi-agency groups, communicating highly complex information, and contributing to the overall development of services.

Person Specification

Professional qualifications and training

• Degree level study or equivalent / Further post-degree qualification.
• Current Registration with an appropriate professional body e.g., ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC.
• Leadership / management qualification.

Experience

• Experience of service development and change management.

Skills and abilities

• Strong leadership and management capacity obtained working with complex service users in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Ability to build and develop teams which should include teaching, supervision, and training.
• Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict, and work with diversity.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of clinical risk management systems and processes.
• Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations.