Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-6727880-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bostall House
- Town
- Welling
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bexley Mental Health Support Team Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available to join our dynamic and energetic service as Team Manager of Oxleas CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST) within the London Borough of Bexley.
Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government’s Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.
Main duties of the job
As Team Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day delivery of the MHST within Bexley, supporting the team to provide a high quality, safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to children, young people and families within a number of local primary and secondary education settings.
You will work in close partnership with education colleagues, local authority and partner agencies and will develop strong working relationships with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within Oxleas CAMHS and the wider Trust.
The service will be undergoing further expansion in January 2025 with the Team Manager leading the team through this change to achieve its ambitious goals and continue to improve the MHST service in Bexley.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Experience of managing staff and leading a team/service are essential for this role. You will need to have excellent leadership, communication and management skills with a passion for early intervention mental health support for children, young people and families.
For more information, please see the attached Job Description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification: e.g. RMN, CQSW/DIPSW, SROT, MRC Psych, Chartered Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience.
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification or suitable training and evidence of willingness to undertake further training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 5 years experience of managing within a multi- professional, multi-agency child mental health environment.
- Experience of service development and change management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strong leadership and management capacity obtained within a complex child multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Ability to build and develop teams.
- Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict and work with diversity.
- Excellent communication skills.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of finance and budget management and ability to contribute to budget planning.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Eldred
- Job title
- MHST Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 260 5200
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