This is a full time role for a Team Manager position working within the Early Child Development Pathway. This is an exciting time to join CFHD and work within a multidisciplinary team specialising in early years complex needs.
You will support in leading members of the team, provide day to day management of the provision of care and treatment within the pathway.
You will be someone who has a keen interest in working with infants, young children and their families who also has skills in leading and managing multidisciplinary professionals within the pathway.
To provide day to day management of the provision of care and treatment within the Early Child Development pathway. To line manage a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians working within the pathway, ensuring supervision, appraisals and mandatory training is completed in line with polices.
To provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of the service, ensuring performance monitoring standards are adhered to. The post holder will manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical leads and other managers.
To ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need.
To ensure, alongside the clinical leads that the service is based on best practice and evidence; is outcomes focussed and audit and routine outcome monitoring is used to improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for children and young people.
To provide advice to professionals internally and externally on the pathway.
Ensure that care and treatment is delivered in response to local need in partnership with communities and other local services.
To be an integral part of the locality leadership team, collaboratively driving the overall service strategy, objectives, vision and ambitions and contributing to transformational change and continuous service improvement.
Why Work With Us
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;
Torbay and South Devon FT
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Royal Devon and Exeter FT
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
Livewell South West
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people which are provided by TSDFT and DPT. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say…
"We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure".
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.
* Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team
* Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care including triage, assessment, clinical formulation and care planning, treatment, and discharge of children and young people
* Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector
* Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and feedback elicited, considered and acted-upon
* In partnership with the Band 8a Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively
* To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team
* To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and improvement
* Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety
* Work with other Team Managers and Clinical Team Managers across the multi-agency system of children's services in the locality to ensure the clinical pathway is delivered as part of an integrated system of care, to improve health outcomes for children and young people
* Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets
* Ensure robust financial management of the team's activities
* Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs
* Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in a range of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of others
To deputise for the Band 8a Operations Manager as required