Job summary
- Main area
- Deputy Associate Clinical Director
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SS7344644
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham CAMHS,
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £97,283 - £111,278 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Associate Clinical Director –Professions Lead (non-medical)
NHS AfC: Band 8d
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.
Job overview
The post holder will join as an integral member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for Newham CAMHS, working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director (ACD) and General Manager (GM), to jointly lead on the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for Newham children and young people with mental health needs and their families/carers.
The post holder will contribute to the clinical, professional, strategic and partnership management of the service to ensure that the services offered are effective, evidence based, accessible and outcomes oriented. With SLT colleagues, the post holder will jointly bring together all component parts of the service to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, positive and measurable outcomes and high quality and performance standards.
The post holder will be a senior CAMHS clinician and provide inspirational leadership to all non-medical CAMHS professionals in the service, working closely with other senior clinical and professional leads locally and across the Trust. They will hold an overview within the service of the balance and range of CAMHS interventions available, acting as a specialist resource and source of advice for multidisciplinary Clinical Team Leads.
Main duties of the job
In conjunction with the SLT, the post holder will develop service partnerships with other agencies, whole system care pathways, parent/carer and cyp participation forums, clinical and professional networks. They will proactively engage with key stakeholders, commissioners, participation leads and senior CAMHS staff to build a flexible, inclusive and effective system of service pathways, building relational resilience in the community and ensure child and families have equal opportunities to thrive. This will include co-construction with system partners in Newham in the development and redesign of services, the implementation of service changes and the delivery of efficiency savings where appropriate.
The post holder will be a member of the Children and Specialist Services Directorate Management Group. They will join other Deputy ACDs and ACDs Trust wide, as well as North East London wide, shared service development projects, quality assurance and quality improvement.
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
The main duties and responsibilities for this role can be found on the attached job description
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
General Manager CAMHS
Associate Clinical Director
Associate Director – CAMHS
Clinical Director
Consultant Psychiatrists
Clinical Team Leads
Senior Management Team
CAMHS colleagues in borough and across the Directorate
Operations Manager and Administrative Team
CAMHS Performance Team
Professional Leads
Service Director of Children and Specialist Services
Trust Directors for Psychological Professions, AHPs, Social Work and Nursing
Other professionals working with children and young people in social care, health, education and the third sector
Trust corporate departments incl. Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T, QI etc
Service Commissioners
Service Users and Parents/Carers
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification to Masters degree level in CAMHS related area
- Qualification in a relevant mental health profession such as Nursing, Systemic Psychotherapy, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Arts Therapies.
- Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HCPC / UKCP / NMC
- Relevant specialist training or qualifications in child mental health assessment/interventions
- Leadership / management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of providing senior clinical leadership to a range of professional disciplines
- Extensive experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context
- Experience of contributing to service developments in complex strategic environments
- Experience in designing, leading, managing, implementing and evaluating specific projects
- Experience of representing the service at multi-agency strategic planning level groups
- Experience of developing partnerships with other agencies
- Experience of multiagency consultation and organising and delivering training and presentations
- Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes
- Extensive post-qualification experience including substantial multidisciplinary experience of working with children, adolescents, families and groups
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Extensive experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Experience of effective working with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies
- Experience of successful implementation of a range of quality initiatives to develop practice
- Experience in the use and embedding of routine outcome monitoring
- Track record of management innovation and service improvements
- Experience of capacity planning and waiting time management
- Experience of managing healthcare assurance systems
- Experience of service user involvement
- Experience of developing whole system care pathways
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide senior clinical leadership and management across disciplines
- Ability to take a broad whole system view of the skills and professional development needs of all the non-medical CAMHS disciplines
- Ability to take a lead in service developments in complex strategic environments
- Ability to liaise and consult with other agencies effectively
- Skills in project management and development
- Ability to create and negotiate new service opportunities, new funding agreements and service developments with commissioners
- A high level of clinical skill
- 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.
- Ability to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Ability to compare and select form a range of treatment options, based on formulation
- Ability to supervise clinically at an advanced level
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and support others senior staff in the same
- Ability to contribute to service management and service development at a senior strategic level
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and to adapt approach according to need
- Ability to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge
- IT skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Ability to record and report clinical information on an electronic patient system e.g. Rio
- Financial management and analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge within own clinical discipline and sufficient knowledge of other disciplines / modalities to provide overall CAMHS non-medical leadership
- Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
- An in depth knowledge of clinical risk management systems and processes
- Knowledge and understanding of healthcare assurance systems
- Up to date knowledge of NICE and other best practice guidelines
- Up to date knowledge of psychological and mental health research relevant to the child and adolescent population
- Knowledge of quality improvement techniques
- Knowledge of routine outcome monitoring (ROM)
- Knowledge of performance management processes
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for the CAMHS client group
- 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
- Knowledge of current developments within CAMHS, in particular I-Thrive framework
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage the multiple demands of a senior role
- Ability to motivate and inspire others
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to hold the stress of others
- Physical Effort Ability to sit in constrained positions for a substantial period of working time
- Mental Effort Ability to endure prolonged periods of concentration for extended client therapy sessions, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc
- Emotional Effort Ability to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing / highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances
- Working Conditions Ability to cope with frequent travel in the community to operate in a variety of work settings, including clients’ homes
- Ability to manage effectively verbal aggression from service users, families etc and the risk of physical aggression
- Values Caring, respectful and inclusive approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals. Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Proctor
- Job title
- Clinical Director for Children's Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02084309000
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