Job overview

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be!

This role is to provide day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within a clinical pathway and to line manage a multidisciplinary team of clinicians working within the pathway. 

You will need to assist specialist clinical interventions and advice as required and to provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the 
efficient and effective delivery of the service.

Manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical leads and other managers. 

We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children’s community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

Main duties of the job

• 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
• 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
• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. 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.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

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”.