Job overview

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Team manager who is passionate about working with children and young people who are experiencing enduring mental health difficulties to ensure that safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high-risk population. Young people accessing the service are typically experiencing enduring mental illness such as depression, anxiety disorder, neurodevelopmental disorder or emotional difficulties and behaviour such as self-harm, suicidal feelings. 

The post holder will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the CAMHS Generic team. This includes ensuring high quality, safe and responsive interventions are provided to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, who are referred to the team.

The post holder will operate as a member of the Bromley CAMHS management team and will assume a lead role in the development of the Generic team /service.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder must balance their responsibilities as a manager for both the operational and clinical elements of team activity while ensuring young people and parents/carer are at the centre of all decision making. They must ensure that views and contributions from all relevant professionals are taken into consideration when applying organisational standards to the team and facilitate effective mechanisms to resolve issues where different perspectives are present.

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