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Job overview

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic CAMHS Brief Intervention /Home Treatment Team Manager who is passionate about crisis management and ensures safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high-risk population. Young people accessing the service are typically experiencing severe mental illness such as psychosis, depression, an affective disorder, anxiety disorder, neurodevelopmental disorder or serious emotional difficulties and behaviour such as self-harm, suicidal feelings, or thoughts of hurting others where risk is deemed as high.

The post-holder must balance their responsibilities as a manager for both the operational and clinical elements of team activity while ensuring a recovery approach keeps the service user and carer at the centre of all decision making. 

You will work closely with colleagues within the Oxleas Tri-borough Crisis Pathway (CAMHS Liaison and Crisis Team (CLiC) and the CAMHS Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Team and community CAMHS services, as well as other colleagues across the South London Partnership. In addition, there will be a requirement to work closely with external stake holders; acute hospitals, social care, schools and the police.

The post holder will be part of an ongoing development of the service and take a lead role in maintaining safe governance structures across the pathway. 

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team, ensuring seamless and consistent service through the use of a multidisciplinary team.
• To provide an effective management of crisis and risk in the community and to have oversight of the management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.
• To ensure equality, diversity and inclusion underpins care and operational policy; ensuring young people and their families cultural, religious, and spiritual needs are considered.
• To be able to effectively manage an emotionally demanding workload often under pressure and involving multiple stakeholders who may present with high expressed emotion and increased service pressures.
• To ensure that staff maintain accurate clinical records and electronic records safely and to a high standard.
• To provide a well-led and responsive service that values staff, supports them through supervision, provides training opportunities and career development. 
• To represent senior management for the service, participating in working groups or service development forums to develop policies, protocols, or guidelines relevant to the service.
• Recruitment and selection of staff within the team.
• Ensuring maximum value of clinical and cost effectiveness and contribute to budget setting exercises.
• To undertake service audit and evaluation.
• To work alongside partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care