CYPMHS West Team Leader

Job overview

CYPMHS West Herts are looking to recruit an inspirational Community Team Leader who is highly skilled, motivated Practitioner with the appropriate professional qualification and experience to work in the multi-disciplinary Team. The post is offered on as a full-time 37.5 hours permanent basis.

The Community Team Leader is required to work across two site, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead. We are a vibrant team working with children and young people presenting with emotional and behavioural needs including complex trauma and attachment difficulties impacting on emotional distress and impacting on their mental health. You will need to have in-depth understanding of neurodiverse and be able to identify any reasonable adjustments to support children and young people using our service.

We would like to recruit a professional who shares our Trust values that is Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful and Professional and our passion to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people and their families who entrust their lives in us. You would work as a team, bring enthusiasm and is innovative in your clinical practice and leadership style.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.

As Team Leader you will work alongside the CYPMHS Operational Manager and enhanced Clinical Team Leader in leading the service and ensuring that the highest quality of care is delivered to children, young people and families. You'll be part of the Quality Leadership Team and have the opportunity to influence Team and Service development. You are expected have a good understanding of Key Performance Indicators and managing throughput based on CAP, a service transformation model used in CYPMHS .To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.

To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.

To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach)

The post holder will be accountable to the Operational Manager for aspects of service delivery, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved service user experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. S/he will deputise for the Operational Manager when required.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own and other professions.

The post holder will support the clinical development of team members to provide services that are accessible and responsive to needs.

To promote participation of service users and carers in their own care and in the planning and development of services.

The post holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.

The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.

To have oversight of referrals into the Service including supporting the team in Choice assessments, Trusted assessments, GID assessments, Duty Team, Care of Waiters and Team meetings .

To take clinical and line management responsibility for clinical staff ensuring they deliver a high quality, young person focused service.

Work in partnership with Local Authority Colleagues - attending strategic multi-agency LA meeting, complex needs panels.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity

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.