Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for the service and ensure delivery of a high quality CAMHS with particular emphasis on early intervention and prevention and increase the sustainability of the department.
• Operationally manage the Disability CAMHS service, ensuring the service is safe and effective e.g. to ensure adequate workforce planning to meet governance standards and NICE and national guidance, e.g.  recruitment. 
• Line management of staff within the team at band 8 pathway/locality lead and senior managers and support the structures within the teams
• Budget management including approving invoices and time sheet oversight, as well as contributing to service level budget meetings
• To co-ordinate the work of the service on a day to day basis, resolving operational and clinical issues as a consultant clinical psychologist or equivalent independently and effectively with the team whilst seeking advice and support from the Head of Community CAMHS as appropriate
• To directly provide clinical supervision to staff as appropriate and ensure effective clinical supervision processes are in place across the teams, pathways and service.
• To ensure CPD and training requirements are robust to ensure maintenance and upskilling of clinical practice and service development. To ensure staff meet requirements for their professional registration and career development.
• Following development of Single Point of Access (SPA) incorporating ELFT and Homerton Healthcare hosted by Community CAMHS, role is to provide clinical and operational oversight to the CAMHS Alliance board of the SPA.  Oversight of referral meetings including clinical communication with referrers and consulting with other professionals re complex risk issues
• To continue delivering and developing SPA and implementing CAMHS alliance goals.
• Ensure efficient decision making and referral onwards to key agencies e.g. Young Hackney , Tier 3 CAMHS, Children’s Social Care, MHST, Hackney Education, ILDS
• To monitor and oversee wait times, ensuring compliance with KPIs and effective management of waiting lists utilizing demand and capacity to understand clinical pressures, trends and capacities to enable flexibility and adaptations to meet service demand in changing times as part of CAMHS Alliance integrated response.
• To set up processes within the service for comprehensive data collection to evidence both individual case work and whole service productivity and effectiveness.  Manage processes and provide meaningful narratives for monthly reporting, quarterly reports ensuring accurate and timely reports are compiled, validated and submitted
• To deputise for Head of Community CAMHS as required, responding to requests from Homerton Healthcare senior management (DOD), commissioners, ICB or strategic partners across the CAMHS alliance and NEL.
• Promote clinical leadership through development of robust clinical supervision structures for the service to ensure delivery of a high quality CAMHS with particular emphasis on early intervention and prevention and Disability, To ensure high quality clinical work across all pathways including SPA, SCAC/NDT, WAMHS, ISP, First Steps, Quick Steps, Transition to adult, IAPT 16-25 and SEND. 
• Ensure delivery of child and family centred health outcomes, using consultation, training and direct work through a range of settings as appropriate for the service (children’s centre’s, primary care, schools, community  organisations, youth support settings, and specialist settings)
• To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Mental Health Service, multidisciplinary CAMHS (including  clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, Family therapy, Nursing, Education Psychology, Psychotherapy, CWP’s, RTT therapists, assistant psychologists and CAMHS practitioners)
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of practice across the team
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all MDT CAMHS staff for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility
• Manage staffing issues and performance queries eg datix, Rio activity completion, change forms, sickness forms, health roster; training and annual leave, complaints, FOI’s, legal requests, business continuity planning, pandemic continuity planning, compliance with trust policy including PDR, Homerton Mandatory Training, maternity etc.
• To be an active member of the Community CAMHS senior management team. To participate in thinking about strategic development of the service, growth and service reputation.
• To ensure compassionate leadership is embedded at all levels of the service, To ensure high level communication between strategic leadership and front line staffing. E.g. through ensuring the delivery of whole service and pathway meetings.
• To assist the Head of Community CAMHS with implementing policy and service development changes within the areas served by the teams.
• To carry out audit evaluation, service development and research as required to meet governance standards and CAMHS alliance and Homerton Healthcare Trust priorities.