Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent: Full Time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SS7510860
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham CAMHS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £82,906 - £94,632 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Team Lead E&B
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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 the CAMHS senior leadership team in Newham and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children, young people and families affected by mental health problems. The post-holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and operational management of the E&B Team
The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Clinical Director for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. They will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measureable outcomes for children and young people and their families. Responsibilities will include working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager, Psychological Therapies Lead and other clinical team leads in service planning and development, the development of bids and business cases, advising on issues of staff performance, and providing clinical and professional advice and leadership to facilitate service improvements.
Main duties of the job
The post holders will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holders will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Key Relationships:
- General Manager CAMHS
- Associate Clinical Director
- Psychological Therapies Lead
- Lead Psychiatrist
- Consultant Psychiatrists
- Clinical Team Leads
- Senior Management Team
- Associate Director - CAMHS
- CAMHS colleagues in borough and across the Trust
- Operations Manager and Administrative Team
- CAMHS Performance Team
- Professional Leads
- Director of Specialist Services and Clinical Director
- Trust Director of Psychological Therapies
- Trust Director of Nursing
- Other professionals working with children and young people in social care, health, education and the third sector
- Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc
- Service Commissioners
- Service Users and Parents/Carers
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
Please see the attached job description for the full details of the responsibilities of the role, including the essential and desirable characteristics
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HCPC / UKCP / NMC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working in CAMHS and substantial experience of working in a culturally diverse Inner city area.
- Experience of providing senior clinical leadership.
- Experience of supervising and line managing in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context.
- Experience of contributing to service development.
- Experience of representing the service at multi-agency strategic planning level groups.
- Experience of partnership working with other agencies.
- Experience of multiagency consultation and organising and delivering training and presentations.
- Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes.
- Experience of performance managing staff within HR processes.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Significant experience of risk assessment and risk management.
- Substantial experience of co-ordinating, managing and supervising clinicians in crisis work.
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment.
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment and addressing issues of power and difference.
- Experience of effective working with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies.
- Experience of taking part in a range of quality initiatives to develop practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the use of routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of managing healthcare assurance systems.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge within own clinical discipline and sufficient knowledge of other disciplines / modalities to provide overall psychological therapies leadership
- Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
- Knowledge of clinical risk management systems and Knowledge of quality improvement techniques
- Knowledge of routine outcome monitoring ROM) processes
- Up to date knowledge of NICE and other best practice guidelines as well as a critical approach to Evidence Based practice that enables a responsive approach to the needs of a diverse community
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for the CAMHS client group
- Knowledge, understanding and clinical experience with people from diverse ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social exclusion and marginalisation
- Knowledge of current developments within CAMHS
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
- Knowledge of current demand – capacity challenges and of models and frameworks about improving access and flow within inner-city CAMHS
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead and influence others
- Ability to provide senior clinical leadership and management across disciplines Ability to take a lead in service developments
- Ability to liaise and consult with other agencies effectively Skills in project management Highly developed clinical skills
- 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, contrast and select from a range of intervention options, based on formulation
- Highly developed advanced skills in clinical supervision and line management
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload and support other staff in the same Ability to contribute to service management and service development at a senior level
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service and address issues of power, difference and intersectionality within the lives of clients and within the work force and wider service
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and to adapt approach according to need
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres
- Financial management and analysis skills
- Ability to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge Advanced IT skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage the multiple demands of a senior role and effectively organise your workload
- Ability to motivate and inspire others
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to hold the stress of others with sensitivity, empathy and understanding
- Ability to endure prolonged periods of concentration for extended client therapy sessions, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc
- Ability to effectively manage frequent exposure to highly distressing / highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances
- Ability to cope with frequent travel in the community and to operate in a variety of work settings, including clients’ homes
- Ability to effectively manage, and de-escalate, verbal aggression from service users, families etc and the risk of physical aggression
- Respectful and non-oppressive/prejudiced approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Ability to negotiate and handle confrontation sensitively, effectively and professionally
Desirable criteria
- Ability to sit for a substantial period of working time
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
- Coretta Ogbuagu
- Job title
- Deputy ACD
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 430 9000
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