Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
26 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Detailed understanding of clinical governance, safeguarding, quality assurance, risk management and regulatory requirements as they apply to children’s services.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of professional standards, supervision, revalidation/registration requirements and modern workforce development across non-medical disciplines.
- Knowledge
Understanding of the needs of staff working with children and young people across CAMHS, specialist mental health, community health and 0-19 universal services.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of national policy, inequalities, children’s rights, co-production, trauma-informed and family-centred care
- Knowledge
Understanding of quality improvement, audit, research, outcomes measurement and learning from incidents, complaints and patient/carer feedback.
- Experience
Substantial senior clinical and professional leadership experience in services for babies, children, young people and families.
- Experience
Experience of working across CAMHS, specialist mental health, community health or related integrated children’s services.
- Experience
Experience of setting, monitoring and improving clinical and professional standards across multiple disciplines.
- Experience
Experience of line managing or professionally supervising senior clinical leaders and supporting multidisciplinary workforce development.
- Experience
Experience of presenting assurance, risk and quality reports through senior governance structures
- Experience
Experience of leading change across complex services and working with operational, clinical and corporate colleagues.
- Qualifications
Relevant professional qualification in a clinical discipline working with babies, children, young people or families.
- Qualifications
Current registration with the relevant statutory or professional body, maintained throughout employment.
- Qualifications
Educated to Masters level or able to demonstrate equivalent senior professional, clinical and leadership experience
- Qualifications
Evidence of recent continuing professional development, including safeguarding, clinical supervision, leadership and quality improvement.
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to provide authoritative professional advice across multiple non-medical disciplines while respecting discipline-specific accountability.
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to lead through influence across complex matrix arrangements and maintain effective relationships with operational, clinical and corporate leaders
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to analyse complex information and provide clear assurance, escalation and recommendations to senior governance forums.
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to develop standards, policies, training plans, supervision models and improvement programmes
- Skills & Knowledge
Excellent communication, report writing, presentation and facilitation skills, including the ability to manage sensitive, contentious or highly complex issues.
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to support staff wellbeing, reflective practice and safe professional decision-making in emotionally demanding children’s services
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Visible, compassionate and inclusive leader who role models Trust values.
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Calm under pressure and able to maintain professional judgement in complex and high-risk situations
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Committed to equality, diversity, anti-racist practice, co-production and reducing health inequalities.
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Highly motivated, resilient and able to work independently within an accountability framework.
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Flexible across sites and able to participate in relevant senior leadership arrangements as required.
Desirable
10 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of North West London children’s services, Ealing Community Partners and Hounslow Community Healthcare.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of commissioning, partnership governance, ICB/local authority interfaces and integrated neighbourhood models.
- Experience
Experience of professional leadership across both mental health and physical/community children’s health services.
- Experience
Experience of 0-19 universal services, children’s community nursing, therapies, neurodevelopmental pathways or safeguarding partnerships.
- Experience
Experience of managing Band 8c or equivalent senior professional leads.
- Qualifications
Postgraduate qualification, management qualification or equivalent evidence of advanced leadership development.
- Qualifications
Additional qualification in child development, family work, public health, systemic practice, psychological therapies, nursing, AHP, social work or another relevant child-facing discipline.
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to design or chair multi-professional professional forums, standards boards or assurance panels.
- Skills & Knowledge
Advanced skills in coaching, restorative leadership, clinical supervision, quality improvement or systems leadership.
- POersonal Qualities & Values
Evidence of contributing to regional or national professional networks, publications, teaching or conference presentations relevant to children’s services.
Job overview
West London NHS Trust has embarked on an ambitious restructure of its services to create a Babies, Children and Young People’s Service Line that brings together community physical and mental health services across our 3 Boroughs (and beyond for some specialist services). This creates an opportunity to deliver truly integrated physical and mental health care innovation and the role of the Associate Director of Babies, Children and Young People’s Professionals will play a key role in achieving this.
The role will report directly to the Clinical Director of the service line to ensure that clinical and professional standards are clear, evidence based, consistently applied and capable of providing assurance through the Service Line into Trust governance structures.
The post holder will line manage the Band 8c Heads of Discipline (and any new and emerging professional leadership roles as the Service Line develops), ensuring that professional leadership arrangements are robust, inclusive and aligned with operational priorities, quality governance, workforce development and the Trust’s clinical strategy. They will work alongside the Associate Director for Operations, operational leaders and corporate professional leads to strengthen clinical practice, supervision, training, safeguarding, quality improvement and learning from incidents, complaints and patient/carer feedback.
Main duties of the job
- Professional leadership: Provide strategic and operational professional leadership across non-medical disciplines, ensuring that staff are supported to deliver safe, effective, compassionate and developmentally appropriate care.
- Line management: Line manage the Heads of Discipline in CAMHS and any new and emerging professional leadership roles as the Service Line develops, ensuring appraisal, supervision, objectives, professional development and performance arrangements are in place and aligned to Trust policy.
- Standards and assurance: Develop and maintain systems to set, monitor and evidence clinical and professional standards, including training, supervision, competencies, registration and compliance with relevant policy and regulatory expectations.
- Governance: Provide assurance through the Service Line into Trust governance structures, ensuring that risks, incidents, complaints, audit findings, quality improvement work and learning are triangulated and acted on.
- Integration: Support consistent professional standards across CAMHS and children’s community healthcare services, including 0-19 universal services, while recognising the distinct professional requirements of each discipline and service model.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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.
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This advert is for Associate Director of Babies Children and Young People's Professionals with West London NHS Trust in Southall, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Director role. The advertised salary is £100,493 - £114,951 per annum inclusive. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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