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Job summary

Main area
Clinical and Strategic Lead nurse CAMHS
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (monday to friday)
Job ref
395-BD088-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Axe Street Child Development centre
Town
barking
Salary
£70,417 - £81,138 plus HCAS per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59
Interview date
15/08/2024

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical & Strategic Lead Nurse CAMHS

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are delighted to be expanding our core CAMHS leadership capacity who work across the ONEL (outer North East London) patch. This role makes an exciting addition to our team by including nursing leadership, alongside our psychological and medical leadership colleagues. The role will be instrumental in shaping how nursing roles within CAMHS teams in acute and community settings can develop  within modern, psychologically informed child and adolescent mental health services.   This is a brand new role with the scope to help shape services in the outer north east London area. 

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include: 

 To set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable clinical objectives for Children’s Mental Health Services 

To initiate and implement programmes to achieve strategic changes and improvement to services and systems.

To deputise when required in the Director’s absence and delegate appropriately to clinical and administration staff.

To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly safeguarding.

To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

To ensure that there is a research culture within the services. To co-ordinator the implementation of R&D activity within the service, ensuring that all research and development activity is monitored and reported in accordance with the Trust R&D Governance guidelines. This may include securing external funding or supporting multi-disciplinary research.

 To provide strategic and clinical leadership and liaise with commissioners at CCG and CCG area levels across multiple contracts.

 To provide clinical quality control and to ensure adherence and competence to evidence- based models in clinical staff.

To support the development of nurse therapist roles as part of a multi-professional workforce plan.

 

 

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.  All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.  The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 per annum).

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description for full range of responsibilities and areas of leadership expected with this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC registered
  • post grad qualification relevant to role
  • first degree relevant to role
Desirable criteria
  • relevant management qualification
  • knowledge of MHA

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of multidisciplinary working and clinical supervision in mental health services
  • Previous experience in middle management or clinical leadership with children and young people services
  • Proven experience of successful management of organisational change
  • Successful track record of strategy formulation and implementation in mental health services

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to form effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to write detailed reports on present and future services using research methods as appropriate
  • Ability to present and disseminate information both at a senior and field level

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

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
melody williams
Job title
integrated care director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07534918224
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