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Job overview

We are looking to recruit a qualified Team Manager with experience of assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would require a minimum of 2 years’ band 7 experience and worked in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. You will play an important role in the provision of a highly specialist service to young people accepted for treatment within the Berkshire CAMHS Tier 4 Out of Hospital Service.

Our service, based at the Phoenix Unit in the Wokingham Community Hospital site. The Phoenix service is a hospital at home and day  service that provides evidence based psychiatric, nursing, and therapeutic interventions for young people under the age of 18 presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties assessed as requiring Tier 4 level care, including where these disorders are co-morbid with neurodevelopmental diagnoses:   

• Serious risk of harm to self; suicidal thoughts and behaviour  
• Emotional dysregulation and symptoms that would be best described as emerging unstable personality disorder  
• Eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,  
• ARFID and disordered eating in the context of emotional dysregulation, trauma, and other mental disorder.  
• Low mood, depressive disorder  
• Early onset psychosis  
• Severe OCD, complex PTSD 
• Other psychological disturbance that may adversely affect functioning but falls outside typical diagnostic criteria.   

Main duties of the job

• Provide the day-to-day operational management and leadership to the CAMHS Phoenix Service, in order to promote the development, welfare and secure the wellbeing of children and young people and their families.
• Exert necessary influence at operational levels and will support strategic development of services as required.
• Work collaboratively with the other CYPF service leads, the professional leads as well as colleagues within the local authorities to deliver services in line with the regulatory frameworks of CQC and Ofsted.
• Take a lead on the development, delivery, and monitoring of services for young people within the service ensuring that there is collaborative working with all referring teams and that clinical care is delivered in line with the evidence-based clinical care pathways.
• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of a safe effective service; leading by example to drive up standards of care and practice and empower staff to take on a greater range of clinical task to improve patient’s care in their clinical area.
• Support the team by means of effective leadership, coaching and the development and implementation of a training strategy, to develop their specialist clinical practice and therapeutic skills.
• Ensure effective and robust gate keeping mechanisms for TIER 4 admissions, working with TIER 3 services and senior clinical colleagues to ensure alternatives to admission have been fully explored.

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. Hear what our people say about working for our CAMHS service: https://bit.ly/CAMHS]

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

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