Job Description:
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the
place to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens
community services and now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join
our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.
As a large community service, you will be joining a
strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your
peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides
a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to
your daily work, your career development and your support network.
We are excited to be advertising for a part time
Clinical Team Manager to support our new Managing Neurodiversity pathway of
care in North Devon.
If you are a motivated individual with good
interpersonal skills, the clinical knowledge and experience in the area of
neurodiversity and would like to be part of this innovative and friendly team,
we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To provide day-to-day operational management of the
provision of care and treatment within the neurodiversity clinical
pathway. To line manage a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians working within
the pathway. To provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as
required. To provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the efficient and
effective delivery of the service. The post holder will manage the effective
operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical
leads, and other managers.
To ensure the provision of high quality, safe, and
responsive community-integrated health care to children, young people,
parents/carers, and professionals according to need.
To ensure the service is based on best practice and
evidence, is outcomes focussed and audit and routine outcome monitoring are used
to improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for children and young people.
To provide specialist clinical interventions, and
advice to professionals internally and externally.
Ensure that care and treatment is delivered in
response to local need in partnership with communities and other local
services.
To be an integral
part of the locality leadership team, collaboratively driving the overall
service strategy, objectives, vision and ambitions and contributing to
transformational change and continuous service improvement
About us
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.
CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day
operational management of the clinical team
Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based
clinical care including triage, assessment, clinical formulation and care
planning, treatment, and discharge of children and young people
Ensure the service is delivered in partnership
with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and
partner organisations across health, education, social care and the voluntary
sector.
Ensure
the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their
parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and
feedback elicited, considered and acted-upon.
In partnership with the Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and
non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively.
To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical
capacity within the team
To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and
improvement
Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and
operational), to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in
clinical standards and safety.
Work with other Team Managers across the multi-agency system of childrens
services in the locality to ensure the clinical pathway is delivered as part of
an integrated system of care, to improve health outcomes for children and young
people.
Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance
targets
Ensure robust financial management of the teams activities
Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the
ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies
and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a
collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication
needs.
Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present
information in a range of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of
others.
To deputise for the Operations Manager as required.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
- Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions - undertaking specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people with complex health problems
- Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
- Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
- Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework
- Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
- Experience in involving service users as active partners in the delivery and or design of services
- Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement
- Experience of using data to improve services
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential
- Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience.
- Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
- The ability to work as an autonomous professional, to take on responsibility, make decisions under pressure and seek support as appropriate.
- Ability to review, analyse and report on information and key data relating to the teams performance, capacity or activity.
- The ability to plan and complete operational leadership tasks as directed and within reasonable timescales.
- Ability to develop and implement systems to manage capacity and demand - patient flow, staff workloads.
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree, BSc/Diploma in OT, or equivalent.
- Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
- Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
- Evidence of relevant CPD.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Integrated Childrens Services
Fishleigh Road
Roundswell Business Park
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 3UD
Employer's website
https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Contact information:
Operations Manager
Tracey Brennan-Osment
tracey.brennan-osment@nhs.net
