Clinical Service Lead - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Clinical service lead

Southwark CAMHS Outreach team

We are looking for a team leader/highly specialist clinician with excellent clinical skills and an ability to engage young people with mental health difficulties.

Applicants will need to have experience of working with service users with severe mental health difficulties, leadership skills that will support the operational management of the Outreach service, and a style of working that supports all team members to give of their best and achieve the best possible outcomes for young people and their carers.

Southwark CAMHS Outreach Team is part of Southwark Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Outreach team is a specialist team for adolescents in Southwark between the ages of 12 to 18 years.

The team aim is to reduce the number of times young people in crisis presenting to A&E, and to provide help before they experience a crisis that might lead to an A&E visit, or hospital admission.

The team works with young people that have severe and complex needs that affect their daily life. The team aims to intervene and support young people and their families before they reach a crisis point.

Outreach team works in partnership with other CAMHS team to provide timely interventions.

We can help to engage with young people that may previously have been hard to reach by providing intensive and flexible support in the community.

To take day-to-day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and management of the Southwark CAMHS- Outreach service.

The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led, as well as service user and carer focused.

The post holder will carry a caseload.

The post holder will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager 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.

Southwark CAMHS is likely to go through transformation to I-thrive model. The post holder will work flexibly as per service needs and transformation.

We offer a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team environment, staffed by highly experienced clinicians who are keen to support your wellbeing at work and your professional development.

We provide plenty of opportunities to develop your knowledge and expertise, with potential for further, specialist training appropriate to the post.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Generous pay, pensions and leave
Work life balance
Career development
Accommodation
NHS discounts
Car lease
Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

Outreach team is multi-disciplinary with psychiatry, psychology, social work, and recognised therapy professionals. The Clinical Service Lead provides management and supervisory leadership to the Southwark CAMHS Outreach service. The post-holder will work with the senior team to develop the service and ensure timely, high quality
- triage, assessment, intervention and discharge planning of YP referred to the service. The post-holder is an important member of the Southwark CAMHS local leadership and will have the opportunity to influence strategy with leads from other teams and disciplines.

Please see attached Job description and Person specification for details