Clinical Service Lead

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician with excellent organisation and leadership skills to join Southwark Child & Family Team as the Clinical Service Lead.

The Child & Family Team is an under 12s service offering assessments and treatment for complex emotional and mental health needs including ADHD. The Clinical Service Lead will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. They will provide highly specialist clinical work within the team and operational management covering the planning, directing and management of the service. Please read attached job description for details.

The successful candidate will be assertive, be able to work well within a team and able to work effectively with complex professional interagency networks. We are seeking a candidate who feels passionate and committed to providing a high quality service for children and young people who are facing significant challenges.

Main duties of the job

• To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and management of the Child & Family CAMHS team.
• The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led, as well as service user and carer focused.
• The post holder will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership

• To line manage and performance manage team to assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles.
• To ensure the effective operational management of the CAMHS service in providing services which are in accordance with the objectives of the CAMHS / and achievement of key performance targets.

Team Management

• To ensure (in conjunction with the Service Manager, Heads of Professions and Lead Clinicians) that practice within the team meets relevant standards, is appropriate, timely, safe and follows agreed professional practice.
• To ensure that staff engage in regular meetings, training and team building with the goal of promoting a working environment that is open, honest, supportive and outward looking.

Staff Management

• Provide demonstrable assurance that all staff are receiving appraisal and personal development plans that include mandatory training and clinical supervision to enable the workforce to be fit for practice.
• To monitor sickness absence, annual leave, training and study leave, taking any appropriate management action as required.

Financial Management

• To have delegated responsibility for the team budget within the service, ensuring that the team works effectively within the allocated financial framework.

Performance Management

• To provide and/or contribute to the production of reports, information and proposals that support effective delivery of care and an integrated approach to work with colleagues at local level or through external agencies.
• To work with the Service Manager and key senior staff to develop robust clinical pathways.

Quality

• To performance manage the quality of the clinical services, including patient safety, patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes and compliance with the clinical pathways and associated protocols.
• To investigate and monitor SUI’s, complaints and disciplinary issues and ensure adverse outcomes are reported and action taken. Produce high quality, timely reports and action plans to ensure recommendations are implemented and lessons are learnt.

Clinical effectiveness

• To measure outcomes to demonstrate achievements against care pathway. standards.
• To promote the engagement of carers and families in the care pathway.

Clinical Service Provision

• Provide assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both individual and multi-disciplinary care.

Self Management

• To attend regular management/professional supervision. Through supervision and appraisal, acknowledge own limitations and discuss/identify/access training as appropriate. Be aware of and reflect on own practice as a manager/clinician.
• To be aware of and adhere to all Trust polices, acting as a role model to other staff.

Please see the attached full job description.

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.