Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Team Manager to be part of the North London Foundation Trust CAMHs Tri borough Single Point of Access (SPOA) across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, services provided at the front door.  We are looking to recruit someone who is enthusiastic, motivated, and who have interest in working with young people, their family and carers presenting with a range of complex mental health difficulties. The post holders will have a job plan balancing the needs of clinical management and clinical interventions. 

Please note if the maximum number of applications is met this post will close early. 

Main duties of the job

The Team Manager will provide operational co-ordination and leadership for specialist and targeted Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Key to this will be managing performance, co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary decision and allocation processes, contributing to team capacity/job planning and prioritisation of CAMHS resources in response to need. 

The post-holder, working in partnership with the Team Consultant Psychiatrist(s), Senior Clinicains and the Service Lead will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team, and ensure the best use of available resources by delivering positive outcomes for individual service users and their families. They will also be responsible for the contributing to the continued development of the service, working in line with the philosophy of CAMHS within the Trust.

The post holder will provide line management supervision to member in the team, including discipline lead. They will also work closely with the borough specific service and clinical lead in delivering evidence-based care and incorporating routine outcome measuring into clinical practice. The post holder will be a part of the local CAMHS senior management team and support the CAMHS Directorate Manager in the review, development, Implementation, and delivery of a CAMH Services, ensuring integration with corporate strategy and CAMHS local and National priorities.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4.  We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 
   

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.