We love what we do and we think you will, too
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
Gloucestershire Core CAMHS are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, skilled and supportive individual to provide additional team manager capacity to our core CAMHS teams.
Core CAMHS provide a breadth of Mental Health Service to the children and young people (0 to 18) of Gloucestershire. The service is provided by a strong Multi-Disciplinary Team of professionals offering a range of assessment and intervention for example; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, emotional coping skills and Family Therapy.
We are looking for someone who can nurture and develop our teams as we and our service continues to offer a high standard of assessment and treatment for young people and families. We have been working hard to reduce our waiting times which we have made significant progress with. Therefore we believe this is an exciting time to join the team to help us focus on developing our service.
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As a Team Manager, you are expected to have the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to complete CAMHS clinical assessments and clinical risk assessments where required. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate knowledge and experience in providing CAMHS based mental health interventions. The successful applicant must have a current registered professional qualification, for example, psychology, mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy as outlined in the person specification.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As well as providing the full range of operational and line management roles and responsibilities such as:
• Supporting and enabling a team of CAMHS staff to effectively deliver their clinical work
• Perpetuating a positive team culture, good morale and staff wellbeing and role modelling GHC Trust values
• Oversight of the team's performance & activity.
• Caseload oversight including focus on risk and safeguarding management
• Governance overview including oversight of continuous improvement, quality assurance initiatives and reflective practice.
• HR oversight including performance management and leading appraisals
• Quarterly review and update of job plans for staff.
• Contribute to the planning, development and delivery of service and quality improvements.
• Lead regular CAMHS meetings to build a sense of robust and safe multi disciplinary working whilst being co-located within the wider multi agency setting.
• Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within daily clinical practice in order to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers
• Collect and analyse performance and activity information effectively for the purpose of audit and service evaluation.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Our Wellbeing line
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.