Job overview
There has never been a more exciting time to join Bradford District Care Trust!
CAMHS Crisis team support young people who are experiencing a mental health crisis or are in acute psychological or emotional distress, presenting with an increased risk to self and or others when presented in acute hospitals and the community. The crisis team also conduit between tier 4 services and community services by supporting young people who are ready to come home from hospital.
We are currently looking to recruit a Team Leader to provide outstanding leadership to drive operational quality of the Crisis Team and Enhanced Treatment Team within the Children Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) at Bradford District Care Trust.
Ensuring that the teams are working effectively to deliver the best possible mental health assessment and treatment for Children and Young people, the Team Leader will be the point of focus for all people-related management within the two teams and be confident and experienced at both managing people at a personal and organisational level.
A demonstratable proven track record of people management and delivering strong results through a team in a people management role is essential as it is spotting and developing talent in your team through coaching and guidance. You will also have the ability to challenge decisions and behaviours to ensure consistency in healthcare delivery to our service users.
Main duties of the job
The role will require you to lead your people and effectively communicate, being able to judge a situation and support your staff and management colleagues. You will work to ensure your teams are motivated, engaged and resourced effectively whilst supporting the strategic goals of the organisation and the objectives of your teams.
You will set performance targets and continually review progress by creating action plans to improve performance, finding solutions to problems and develop and drive continuous improvement strategies.
The post holder will provide leadership, managerial and supervisory responsibility for a group of practitioners working as a multidisciplinary team providing specialist child and adolescent mental health services.
The post holder will work collaboratively with other team managers to ensure clinicians can be released to provide input to the specialist teams, for example eating disorders, LAAC, SEAD, Neurodevelopment team, Core Team as well as specialist district wide services.
Key partnerships include adult mental health services, learning disability services, social care, education, consultation to Primary care colleagues, other children’s services within the voluntary sector.
This is an excellent opportunity to really make a difference to young people’s lives across the Bradford District.
Closing Date 19th May 2024
Shortlisting Date 20th May 2024
Interview Date 24th May 2024
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Qualifications
2. 2 years experience working in Mental health/Children Settings
Desirable criteria
3. leadership Qualifications
4. Previous management experience
experince
Essential criteria
5. Experience of Supervision/project management
Desirable criteria
6. Experience of Budgets/finances/change management
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Bradford has been awarded the coveted status of UK City of Culture 2025. The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations. Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.
We would welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health and care needs.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and in particular Bradford District Care Trust is keen to reflect the population we serve, we are currently underrepresented in terms of black and minority ethnic staff. Applications are encouraged from these groups, but it must be stressed that selection will be solely on merit and in accordance with the Trust recruitment policy.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.