Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Nurse or suitably registered AHP AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00hrs)
- Job ref
- 186-1071-25-MH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fern House, Highbury Hospital
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum (pro rata for part time) + 1% on call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
MHST Operational Team Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
The Mental Health Support Team is expanding as part of the National commitment to reach 100% coverage with schools by 2030. Established in 2019, our MHST is embedded across each district across the County
This new leadership role will support expansion and be part of the established leadership team.
A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership within an agreed National model of delivery
Recruit support and manage teams.
Work as part of an multi-display team
Liaise with Schools, Educational Psychology, Commissioner and wider system partners
Be part of the established MHST leadership team and wider Specialist and Community CAMH service
See job description for more detail.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead and manage the day-to-day operations and performance of the CAMHS Mental Health Support Team to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of children and young people within Nottinghamshire.
Working in collaboration with the senior CAMHS leadership team, the post holder will be responsible for the leadership and management of teams, driving towards improved mental health outcomes for children and young people. The post holder will provide and oversee managerial supervision and support to the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe patient centred care.
The post holder will develop innovative new ways of working with other providers to enhance improved working practices and relationships across healthcare in order to meet strategic objectives, organisational requirements and evidence based practice developments with a focus upon children and young people’s mental health provision.
The post holder will need to have excellent managerial and leadership skills with a good understanding of the clinical needs of children and young people requiring mental health support.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Has the ability to perform the full ranges of duties.
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Ability to travel across site and system partner sites.
- Complete physical safety training.
- Required to undertake on call duties on the 1st Mental Health on-call rota.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level (relevant to the post) with additional post graduate qualification.
- Registered Nurse, Dip SW or equivalent social work qualification (CSS, CQSW, degree in social work), Allied Health Professional with professional accreditation with HCPC registration or equivalent and relevant nationally recognised accrediting body.
Desirable criteria
- Additional and relevant to the role qualification(s)
- Leadership qualification.
- Supervision qualification.
Training
Essential criteria
- Supervision of staff.
Desirable criteria
- Management training.
- Mentorship training.
- Leadership training.
- Staff supervision training.
- Project management training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and knowledge of productivity models which support both timely patient access to services, effective use of team resource and harmonises demand capacity throughput.
- Leadership of people including setting and monitoring objectives against performance.
- Effective supervision of staff.
- Have a significant amount of relevant clinical experience/understanding across the breadth of presentations within Community CAMHS, MHST or relevant clinical delivery area.
- Experience of leading Multi-disciplinary teams and supporting effective team working.
- Experience of caseload management, including working with clients with a wide range of mental health difficulties. Experience of leading service change and service development.
- Experience of developing and delivering training packages regarding mental health and risk.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of and experience of working within Child, Adolescent and/or Adult Mental Health service with patients experiencing significant Mental Health difficulties
- Knowledge of CYPIAPT Principles and ability to embed them within the service.
- Experience of working in/ leading MHST’s.
- Experience and skills in Clinical audit, research and evidence-based practices.
- Experience of the clinical and operational functions of specialist child and adolescent mental health services, working in partnership with Acute hospitals and other health, education and social care providers.
- Experience of supporting ‘on call’ rotas.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current Mental Health policy and Legislation.
- Knowledge of MHST structures, scope and offer Knowledge and experience of Safeguarding Adults and Children practice.
- Working knowledge and understanding of policy drivers for CAMHS, MHST & CYP-IAPT.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal, liaison, management and organisational skills.
- Developing and implementing change management processes.
- Building effective communication with a diverse range of colleagues and agencies.
- To provide the vision and leadership for the team.
- Ability to lead and develop and motivate others.
- Sound judgement and decision-making skills.
- Innovation, creativity and ability in leading and developing teams, groups and individuals.
- Information technology experience and application skills.
- Ability to plan and organise activities to be completed by the team to meet the Trust’s strategic objectives.
- Building and promoting effective professional relationships and integrated team-working across the organisation and system partners.
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to partake in the Mental Health 1st on call rota, which may require working unsocial hours
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
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
- Carl Jones
- Job title
- CAMHS Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775814856
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