Deputy Clinical Team Manager

Job overview

Are you a hard-working, experienced clinician?

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to develop your leadership skills?

We are looking for a Deputy Clinical Team Manager for Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).  You could be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist or Psychotherapist; you would be supporting the Clinical Team Manager by undertaking both clinical and operational duties to ensure that we continue to deliver a high quality service to our children and young people.

We're an established team, growing with new investment into new roles. We are currently developing our service to improve the accessibility, responsiveness and excellent care that we provide to children, young people and their families.

You will be part of a dynamic local leadership team that meet frequently and work closely together; we're a supportive team with regular managers meetings and opportunities for coaching or mentoring.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll undertake mental health and risk assessments of children and young people within the Getting Help Team. Depending on the needs of the child or young person (CYP) this could either be on an urgent or routine basis. Working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies you will develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based.    You'll also hold a small clinical caseload which consists of key working and providing evidence based support.

Another key component of this role, is taking part in the Getting Help/Getting More Help CAMHS duty rota. This entails the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk and are waiting for our service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you're a hardworking team player, you think outside the box and are a keen problem solver, this is the role for you. We're looking for someone who has a keen interest in service development, to build on and improve the outcomes for our children and young people.