This is a senior leadership role within GMMH CAMHS Community Services. As Service Manager, you will lead the operational delivery and ongoing transformation of community-based CAMHS services, ensuring children, young people and families receive the right help, at the right time, in the right place.
You will work closely with clinical leaders, system partners and lived-experience voices to design and deliver services that are:
* Accessible and responsive
* Joined-up across health, care and education
* Focused on outcomes that matter to children and families
This is a varied, influential role for someone who is passionate about system working, service improvement, and compassionate leadership.
Main duties of the job
* Provide strong, compassionate leadership across a range of community CAMHS pathways, working across localities and partner organisations.
* Support delivery of Long Term Plan priorities, including improved access, reduced waiting times, earlier intervention and strengthened crisis pathways.
* Work with Clinical Leads to ensure services are safe, effective and outcome-focused, with robust clinical and quality governance.
Job responsibilities
Provide senior operational leadership across community CAMHS teams and specialist pathways. Ensure services meet access standards, manage demand, reduce waiting times and maintain safe patient flow. Work in partnership with Clinical Leads to maintain robust clinical, quality and safeguarding governance. Lead performance management, quality improvement, risk management and regulatory compliance. Manage workforce planning, staff development, appraisal, wellbeing and engagement. Maintain financial control, ensuring services operate within allocated budgets and deliver value for money. Lead and support service improvement and transformation projects aligned to Trust and system priorities. Build effective partnerships with commissioners, education, social care, primary care and VCSE organisations. Contribute to strategic planning and represent CAMHS in internal and external forums. Deputise for the Head of Operations and participate in the senior manager on‑call rota.
Person Specification
CAMHS experience
* Experience of working with children and young people
* Experience of working in a mental health setting
* Experience of working in a management role within a hospital/community setting
* Experience of working in a management role
Experience of working within a mental health clinical setting
* Experience of clinically working with children and young people
* Experience of clinically working within a mental health setting
Evidence of further professional development
* Evidence of further professional development (MSc/BSc)
* Evidence of further professional development (Dip HE or equivalent)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Trust, Bury New Road
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
437-7954797
Job locations
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Trust, Bury New Road
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