Job overview
8CCAMHS Clinical Team Lead Countywide Bedfordshire and Luton Children Looked After Team– 12 month Maternity cover
We are looking for a Senior Clinician to support the Countywide Children Looked after Team whilst the Clinical Team Lead is on maternity leave. This is a fixed term 12 month post to cover this maternity leave.
This post will form part of the CAMHS senior leadership team in Bedfordshire and Luton and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people.
The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS non-medical discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and management of the Countywide Bedfordshire and Luton Looked after Children’s Team. The post is open to all disciplines including psychology, Psychotherapy, family therapy, nursing, social work, Arts therapies.
Main duties of the job
This is a community-based post across the county, leading on the delivery of a flexible, trauma-informed and evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work to children who are in care and their caring systems, across the county. The post holder will also lead on the delivery of interventions such as consultation, triage, training, and other forms of support to the professional networks working with children in care, supporting and informing on the trauma-based care for the children and young people, and their caring networks, helping to develop a systems of care and trauma-informed approach with partner agencies. The post holder would need to ensure the county-wide team has robust training, consultative and highly specialist evidence-informed assessment to treatment packages in place, and a readiness to assess mental illness, risk and resiliency in young people, using a contextualized formulation approach. The role would include working on an individual, family or group basis and providing consultations to social workers and foster carers, training and contributing to group programs and supervision within the team.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Psychological Therapies Lead, and other Clinical Team Leads, the post holder will form part of the senior clinical leadership for the service. They will provide inspirational leadership of the county wide multidisciplinary team to ensure effective, and evidence informed assessment, formulation and treatment, accessible care pathways with all essential partners, and a culture of continuous quality improvement in the service.
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Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
1. Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC
2. Relevant specialist training or qualifications – with substantive psychological therapy training relevant to CAMHS
3. Leadership / management training
4. Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT etc.
5. Specific training in multiagency consultation
6. Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of providing senior clinical leadership
8. Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
9. Experience of representing the service a multi-agency strategic planning level groups
10. Experience of partnership working with other agencies
11. Experience of multiagency consultation and organising and delivering training and presentations
12. Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes
13. Significant post-qualification experience including substantial multidisciplinary experience of working with children, adolescents, families and groups
14. Significant experience of risk assessment and risk management
15. Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment
Desirable criteria
16. Experience of service user involvement
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
17. Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS and children in care
18. Specific knowledge of pertinent issues for CAMHS and children in care
19. In depth knowledge of specialist CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions of children in care
20. Ability to provide senior clinical leadership and management across disciplines
21. Skills in project management
22. A high level of clinical skill
23. Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
24. Ability to supervise clinically at an advanced level
25. Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and support other staff in the same
26. Financial management and analysis skills
27. Knowledge, understanding and clinical experience with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social exclusion and marginalisation
Desirable criteria
28. Knowledge of quality improvement techniques
29. Knowledge of routine outcome monitoring (ROM