EHWS Deputy Clinical Lead

Job overview

Are you a psychological professional, mental health nurse, systemic family therapist or social worker with further therapeutic qualifications?

Do you have experience leading children's mental health services?

Are you looking for a senior leadership role in early intervention services, where you can use your clinical and leadership experience, to lead an amazing workforce of dedicated staff, working closely across the health and education sectors?

We have a brilliant opportunity for the right candidate to clinically lead our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The successful post holder will lead on the continued implementation and provision of a high-quality schools based early intervention service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.  The post holder will also lead the MHST’s in delivering evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service and the EHWP's in delivering advice and guidance to professionals.  This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

Why not click on the attached Job Description to find out more!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will clinically lead Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service (EHWS), including the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (EHWP) team and the growing Mental Health Support Teams (MHST).

This role will provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring effective implementation and on-going delivery of service pathways and protocols in order that the service can deliver a safe and effective, high quality compassionate service.

The post holder will lead on the continued implementation and provision of a high-quality schools based early intervention service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will lead the MHST’s in delivering evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service. They will lead the EHWP's in delivering advice and guidance to professionals. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards. The post holder will utilise their skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice, and knowledge of whole school approaches to mental health, to clinically lead the EHWS across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Furthermore, the successful candidate will:

• Develop positive working relationships with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people and their families
• Recruit and retain a workforce needed to implement the MHST programme
• Lead on future further MHST roll out
• Develop pathways for referrals into and around the system, working closely with YOUnited leads
• Work closely with their counterpart(s), in Norfolk and Waveney, providing holiday cover and peer support
• Develop and maintain systems and pathways for safe and effective multidisciplinary, multi-agency working within education settings
• Develop and implement ongoing evaluation of impact measures, feeding data to the Mental Health Data Set, and other required reporting mechanisms
• Work closely with the University of East Anglia (UEA), who are the training provider for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP’s)
• The post holder will also represent the Trust both internally and externally to numerous stakeholders from a range of services and organisations

The post holder will clinically lead the EHWS, by:

• Being responsible for the recruitment of a workforce that can deliver the MHST model, including leading the roll out of subsequent teams.
• Being responsible for the development of a workforce that can implement interventions that are evidence based and within the clinical competencies of the developing workforce
• Developing and maintaining systems and pathways for safe and effective multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working within a range of settings.
• Developing and implementing ongoing evaluation of impact measures with quarterly reporting
• Leading on research in the field of Early Intervention mental health services for Children, Young People, families, and their education establishments
• Modelling excellent clinical practice and clinical work, working across the service
• Developing working relationships and regular professional liaison and feedback with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people and their families
• Delivering a service with excellent clinical governance, in accordance with Trust Processes

The post holder will deliver service standards and key performance indicators:

• Within a leadership style reflecting the Trust’s values of Honesty, Empathy, Ambition and Respect (HEAR)
• Providing a safe, high quality, effective and compassionate service

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for the work of the EHWS across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of therapeutic practice within the service, delivered by regulated, registered and unregistered staff groups.

Reporting to multiple commissioners and stakeholders, including the Department of Education, Health Education England, NHSE, the Integrated Care Board, Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough County Council.

Lead across partners with the implementation of the strategic priorities from the Government Green Paper.

Lead on the long term roll out, expansion and delivery of the MHST program.

Represent MHST’s and the Trust in the YOUnited partnership work, developing and implementing new pathways and processes across iThrive.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, contributing to and shaping as appropriate.

To report clinical outcomes to the Mental Health Services Data set, ensuring Access Targets are met. Propose, devise and implement clinical policies, pathways and reports for the service that embed best clinical practice

Be responsible for clinical supervision structures for staff, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.

Co-production: develop and implement a co-production plan, ensuring the ‘voice of the child/young person’ is pivotal in all aspects of clinical practice and development.

Collate and report feedback for the service from a range of stakeholders, including children and young people, implementing findings.

Ensure the internal Risk Register accurately captures information and is updated on a regular basis.

Promote a culture of incident reporting, leading Serious Incident investigations when appropriate and ensuring learning takes place to affect appropriate change.

The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes and ensure adherence within the Team.

Ensure accessible management information is regularly used for service improvement and reporting via SystemOne data sets, suitable technology/systems development and in compliance with Trust Information Governance (and all relevant legislation) standards

To present reporting of impact, outcomes and feedback as well as service productivity and lead clinical and other audits as required.

Registration and maintenance of registration throughout employment with an appropriate professional body

Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust including regular safeguarding training.

To participate in safeguarding children supervision as required within the remit of the role. Provide patients and their families / carers with information on standards they should expect from the team.

Participate in clinical supervision on a regular basis according to professional and Trust guidelines. To actively consult and obtain relevant management and or clinical support and supervision where necessary to carry out duties.

Participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.

Ensure staff within the MHST are aware of and execute their responsibilities with regard to the safeguarding children and adult’s agenda, confidentiality, Trust and professional training requirements, data protection and sharing, information governance, risk management and reporting and all relevant legislation and Trust and local policy.

Strategic development of the service within the local landscape – working with multiple partner agencies to identify gaps and determine the best use of resources to meet needs.

Strategic lead for EHWS for the Trust. Attendance at and participation in; board meetings, strategic meetings, operational meetings and steering groups.

Communication

High level liaison required with heads of departments, across multiple agencies (Health, Education, Social Care, Early Help, third sector etc.), as well as government departments (Department for Education) and Universities. Commissioners (ICB, Local Authority, education)

Balancing multiple conflicting demands from a county wide-service, as well as ensuring responsiveness to partner organisations, stakeholders, and multiple commissioners.

Act autonomously at a strategic level, analysing multiple conflicting demands and outcomes, making decisions independently that impact on service delivery.

Writing bids for funding to support the growth of the service.

Lead on recruitment.

Lead on Human Resources investigations for CCS, in line with multiple policies and SOP’s.

Representing the EHWS and CCS at multi agency Child Death Overview Panels.

Establish effective working relationships so that the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people is promoted.

Writing and delivering teaching to a range of staff, translating complex psychological concepts into accessible and relevant training.

Develop morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring the Trust values of

Honesty, Empathy, Ambition and Respect are embedded

Effective communication on complex issues to a wide range of audiences, including senior management level and children, young people and families, in order to inform and influence decisions.

Ensure children, young people and their carers / families are aware of the standards they would expect from the service.

Management of complaints within HEAR Trust values

Undertake communication with patients and families that may be of a distressing or highly distressing nature.

Attend performance meetings, where appropriate, to represent the service / clinical speciality.

Responsible for the implementation of the delegated actions from service plans, through effective communication and briefings to staff and other stakeholders.