# Bromley CAMHS Operational Manager

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Bromley
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £72719.00 to £83505.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are pleased to advertise a new and exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS leadership group as Operational Manager for our Bromley specialist community CAMHS service.

As Operational Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of community CAMHS, as part of the CAMHS sub-directorate - providing high quality, safe and responsive mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals.

You will work in close partnership with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within the Trust to realise our ambitious goals for Bromley CAMHS, and to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Extensive experience of operational management and exceptional leadership skills are critical to success in this role - you will need to be a strong, compassionate and convincing communicator with an energy and passion for working with children and young people and in delivering transformational change.

**Main duties of the job**

The purpose of the Operational Manager role is to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of specialist community CAMHS - providing high quality, safe and responsive mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals.

The post holder will provide senior leadership and management to staff within Bromley CAMHS, working with senior clinical and operational leads to design, implement and manage systems and processes to ensure that services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide, local and national policies, priorities and regulatory frameworks.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that both services are provided in accordance with the THRIVE framework and core CYP IAPT principles, working in partnership with service users, partner agencies and as a part of a multi-agency system, including as a member of the Trust-wide CAMHS Leadership Group.

**Job responsibilities**

- Provide overall management of the service

- Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of care pathways through the service including triage, assessment, treatment, and discharge of children and young people with mental health problems and their families

- Ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP IAPT principles

- Work in partnership with Heads of Profession and other clinical leaders, to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety

- Operate as a leader within the multi-agency network of children's services in Bromley to ensure the service is delivered as part of an integrated system to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Oxleas CAMHS children and young people

- Ensure the service is delivered to meet key performance targets including those relating to the local Children and Young People's Plan

**Person Specification**

- **Education & Qualifications**

+ Desirable: Degree level education, Professional qualification relevant to CAMHS (e.g. Social Work, Nursing, Clinical Psychology), Post qualification training relevant to CAMHS, Appropriate management qualification or equivalent relevant experience in health or social care

- **Experience**

+ Essential: Minimum three years experience of senior/middle operational management of clinical teams in health or social care   + Desirable: Leadership in planning and implementing service development and change within a clinical / social care setting, Inter-agency working at a management level with successful track record of influencing and maintaining good working relationships, Management of service user participation and involvement in services and implementation of service change as a result of feedback, Managing resources at middle/senior management level, Working effectively within the local and national political environment

- **Skills**

+ Essential: Leadership skills in managing multi-disciplinary teams with the ability to inspire and motivate staff to provide excellent care   + Desirable: Skills in working effectively at a management level in a multi-agency context, Able to anticipate, assess and analyse situations, problem solve effectively and implement solutions, Communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with confidence in writing or verbally to a range of audiences, Knowledge and ability to manage change effectively; bringing about cultural, operational or structural changes within the service, Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet simultaneous internal and external deadlines, Skills in managing performance, financial and HR management, The ability to use data to maintain oversight of performance and to identify risks and areas for service improvement

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## Skills

### Required
- Leadership skills
- Operational management
- Exceptional communication skills

### Nice to have
- Skills in working effectively at a management level in a multi-agency context
- Able to anticipate, assess and analyse situations
- problem solve effectively and implement solutions
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge and ability to manage change effectively
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Skills in managing performance, financial and HR management
- The ability to use data to maintain oversight of performance and to identify risks and areas for service improvement

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