Overview
This post is a 0.8 WTE CAMHS senior clinical team leadership post for the CAMH Access Service Pathway (CAS) in Central Bedfordshire. The post is responsible for delivering the highest standards of care and services for children and young people with early signs of mental health problems and their families. The post holder will work in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Deputy Associate Clinical Director (Professions Lead - non medical), and other Clinical Team Leads as part of the senior clinical leadership of the service.
You will provide inspirational leadership of multidisciplinary clinicians to ensure effective, early, and evidence-based assessment and treatment, accessible care pathways and a culture of continuous quality improvement in the service. The service uses a resilience-based model of practice and aims to co-produce its needs-based offer with stakeholders, moving towards greater community-based integration of the early intervention offer with other children’s services partners. The Lead will ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards.
Responsibilities
* Provide strategic and operational leadership for the CAMH Access Service Pathway (CAS) within Central Bedfordshire.
* Deliver performance targets and quality outcomes to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence-based therapies.
* Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective, early assessments and treatment, and to foster continuous quality improvement.
* Ensure patient safety, high-quality care, positive patient experience, and robust governance and performance management.
* Collaborate with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager, Deputy Associate Clinical Director, and other Clinical Team Leads as part of senior clinical leadership.
* Support capacity building to deliver measurable positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
About ELFT, Values and Strategy
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive. We look for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve services. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and offer opportunities to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services. We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, identifying four strategic outcomes: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and value, aligned with the NHS Long Term Strategy.
Our Community and Diversity
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in London and surrounding areas, including The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and Forensic services to the North East London area. We deliver in urban and rural settings, often in the community close to where people live, with integrated care to maximise resources and effectiveness.
We are committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce reflects the populations we serve. We value staff with varied backgrounds and life experiences and support inclusive practices, staff networks and pathways throughout the career journey.
Flexible Working
As a flexible-working friendly organisation, we consider arrangements such as job share, part-time or other flexible patterns. Speak to us about how we might accommodate flexible working to suit both staff and patients.
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