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Job Overview
The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) CAMHS service is seeking an exceptional Band 8b Directorate Manager—a dynamic, strategic and people‑centred leader ready to shape and elevate specialist mental health services for children and young people across Gwent.
This is your opportunity to step into a senior leadership role with the autonomy and influence to drive meaningful service improvement. Like other senior leadership posts, you will oversee multidisciplinary teams, deliver complex services, and support ongoing development in diverse environments—you will bring vision, clarity and compassion to a service committed to excellence.
Why ABUHB CAMHS?
You'll join a service driven by a passion to improve outcomes for children with mental health struggles, through innovate thinking, creativity and a commitment to collaboration with a vision to transform service to meet the needs of our local children. CAMHS at ABUHB, has won awards for transformational work & is leading on many innovations. We're looking for a values driven individual to help the service to flourish and maximise its local service delivery.
Main duties of the job
* Provide senior strategic leadership across a complex, multi‑disciplinary service, ensuring high‑quality clinical practice, robust governance and effective delivery across pathways.
* Inspire, develop and unite staff, using your excellent interpersonal and team‑building skills to nurture a positive culture and empower clinical and non‑clinical teams.
* Lead on service transformation, driving innovation and overseeing strategic developments aligned with national and local priorities for children and young people's mental health.
* Build strong relationships with partners, promoting integrated, cross‑agency working to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of CAMHS.
* Oversee operational performance, managing resources, budgets, staffing structures and risk to ensure the highest standards of safety, effectiveness and experience.
* Be a visible, credible leader, supporting staff across multiple teams and fostering a culture of compassion, accountability and continuous learning.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Education
Essential criteria
* Educated to Masters' Degree Level or equivalent level of work experience
* Management Quaificaton
* Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
* ECDL
* Updated knowledge of Welsh Health and Social Care and its performance
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
* Meet all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
* Previous experience working and participating in significant change management projects
* Ability to analyse and appropriately present high complex information
* Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing teams
Desirable criteria
* Previous knowledge in required role and working in an medical/acute environment
* Experience if having produced reports and presented to a variety of audiences
* Experience of managing in a multi disciplinary setting
Other
Essential criteria
* IT literate and able to use MS Work, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
* To have worked with highly confidential information and have a through understanding of the issues of confidentiality when dealing with organisational and person records
* Knowledge of the key stakeholders for health and social care delivery
* Show resilience, stamina and reliability under sustained pressure, never losing sight of objectives.
* Must be mobile within a geographical area
Desirable criteria
* Previous knowledge in required role and working in an medical/acute environment