Clinical Team Manager - Melksham inMelksham inMelksham PUBLISHED THU 19 DEC 2024

Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support colleagues to offer an excellent service to children and young people?

With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team as the Clinical Team Manager and ensure we are delivering outstanding services to the children and young people of the Melksham Community CAMHS catchment area. The service is based in Melksham and works with young people up to 18 years old who experience a range of difficulties associated with their mental health. You would be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.

You will hold overall management responsibility for all aspects of service delivery and operational matters for Melksham Community CAMHS. We are working towards a culture where services from across the whole system (including health, education and social care) come together and work together to deliver positive and seamless experiences of care to children, young people and families.

In this hugely important team role, you'll manage and supervise a diverse group of staff from a range of professional backgrounds, provide great leadership with enthusiasm for service transformation and determination to provide outstanding quality of care, ensuring that children and young people are kept at the heart of everything we do. You'll be responsible for coordinating and motivating the team, having robust oversight of waiting lists and working with key colleagues to ensure continuity of service.

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You can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role and ongoing in-house training. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.

We encourage our team managers to lead on leadership projects and provide opportunities to attend leadership training at Reading University and access to other external training as relevant to professional qualification and role. We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We support flexible workingpractices.

You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video: BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills. You will also build and maintain strong working relationships with partner agencies supporting the development of integrated care pathways and locality working.

With great communication and organisation skills, and a flexible can-do approach, you will work as an integral member of the leadership team in Melksham CAMHS and across Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire, providing management cover for other team managers as required.

The role involves contributing to the out of hours on call duty service for Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. You will join the Manager On-Call duty rota and support colleagues working out of hours who provide a first response to concerns about children and young people. The frequency of on call can vary, however, typically this means being on call one week in every 12- 15 and there is a robust system of support available from the consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

We are very proud of our service and welcome you to come and look around and meet some of the team. For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.