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Job summary

Main area
Allied Health Professional
Grade
NHS AfC Band 7
Contract
Secondment: 12 months
Hours
Part time - 0.6 hour per week
Job ref
388-7263145-AHP-A
Employer
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Torbay Hospital - Winnicott Centre
Town
Torquay
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59

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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Team Manager

NHS AfC Band 7

Job overview

We are excited to be advertising for a 12 month Fixed Term  0.6 WTE Band 7 Clinical Team Manager. 

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children’s community services and looking for 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.

The CTM role is: 

  • Provide day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within a clinical pathway. 
  • Line manage a  team of clinicians working within the pathway. and you will provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as required
  • Ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need.

Main duties of the job

Work within a CFHD pathway of care providing support to speech and language therapists across the designated pathway/s of care.

Screen and triage referrals and ensure a strengths-based approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to support the complex packages of care for children with additional needs in the community.

Contribute to risk assessment and care planning in collaboration with children, young people and their carers.

Provide specialist SLT assessment, advice and interventions to children, young people and their families and to hold a caseload of children with complex needs.

Provide supervision and support to team members. 

Working for our organisation

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, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

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 vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve

Successful applicants will be employed by Torbay and South Devon FT (link to Why work for us Why work with us - 1 (pagetiger.com))

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Advocate on behalf of CYP and to be at the forefront of clinical development within their specialist clinical area

Effectively communicate with children, families and staff to be able to sensitively impart difficult news and respond appropriately to complaints and challenges

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the whole of CFHD

Represent speech and language therapy and/or individual patient to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi-disciplinary service and to integrate speech and language therapy management in to the overall management plan. This may involve health/social care staff, voluntary and private sector. This will involve providing specialist advice to the multi-disciplinary team on management of recovery and discussion of patient care, progress and discharge planning

Communicate complex and sensitive condition-related information from assessment to children/young people and families, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team/other professions in a way that is accessible and easily understood. This will include facilitating strategies for people with communication disorders where barriers to understanding may exist

Demonstrate empathy with children/young people families, carers and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to communication exist, or sensitive issues are being dealt with.

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

To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team

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.

Person specification

Application form ad Interview

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
  • Registration (HCPC)
  • Evidence of training/CPD maintained in relation to role (
  • Membership of Professional Body
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a leadership role (team lead and above)
  • Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Burton
Job title
Clinical Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07890040550
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