Team Manager

Job overview

We are recruiting to the post of Team Manager for our busy and dedicated team at CYP CEDS. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and committed Team Manager to work alongside the Service Manager, Lead Family Therapist and Psychology Lead to support staff and to ensure service users are able to access timely and effective treatment. You will ideally have a strong CAMHS, mental health, and/or Children's Service clinical background. A current professional registration is essential - NMC/HCPC.

You will be expected to support the development of all staff and a commitment to meaningful engagement with children & young people suffering from an eating disorder, their families and other stakeholders to help continuously improve our service. Clinicians are encouraged to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.

You will need to demonstrate excellent organisation, analytical, written and inter personal/communication skills and be comfortable working under pressure, to tight timescales and making decisions on a daily basis. You will require excellent communication skills to drive progress forward.

Main duties of the job

To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and performance management of the work of the Children and Young Person’s Community Eating Disorder Team (CYP CEDS).

The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led and service user and carer focused. They will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Head of Service in order 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

The post holder will take the lead in and actively encourage and support staff to build strong links with other providers of community resources and utilise all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients. They will ensure that commissioning priorities of the relevant CCG and Council are adhered to and take day to day responsibility for the management and smooth running of the referral, assessment and patient allocation processes.

The post holder will work with the Service Manager and other local senior clinicians to ensure that team performance targets are consistently met by developing and implementing improvement plans as and when necessary

The post holder will offer clinical assessment and intervention in line with registration, CPD and service needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To ensure the effective operational management of the CYP CEDS service in providing services which are in accordance with the objectives of the CYP CEDS / ED service line •    To ensure that services are developed and are of the highest standard in terms of fair access, equality of opportunity and that uphold anti discriminatory practice •    To ensure that practice within the team meets relevant standards, is appropriate, timely, safe and follows agreed professional practice •    To manage the referrals into the service and allocation of work across the team, ensuring that referrals which are accepted in to the service meets with the eligibility criteria and that other referrals are re-directed to other appropriate agencies •    To work in conjunction with the service leads to develop quality assurance systems that support performance against CYP CEDS KPIs and provide staff with feedback on their performance •    To ensure that all staff are in receipt of regular appraisal and professional development support •    To monitor sickness absence, annual leave, training and study leave, taking any appropriate management action as required •    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 •    Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings •    Be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. These will include long and short term interventions as appropriate to need •    Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan