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SalaryEast Sussex CAMHS Locality Manager - Ouse Valley CAMHS
37.50 hours per week
Grade 8a
Secondment to 31 March 2024
This is an exciting opportunity as we are looking to recruit a CAMHS Locality Manager in East Sussex. We are interested in applications from a range of professionals who ideally would have a track record of leadership or management.
Main duties of the job
The management role will be working with Multi-disciplinary teams who deliver excellent clinical care to young people in a range of services across East Sussex. The post holder will be working as part of a dynamic leadership team across the Sussex CAMHS and specialist services. The post holder will also work in collaboration with other senior leaders to ensure that the service continues to deliver on key performance objectives and provide high quality care. The post holder will be enthusiastic, self-motivated and willing to make a real and positive contribution to the service. They will need to be quality and performance focused, ready for a challenge, possess excellent communication, management and organisational skills and have the ability to work under pressure in a supportive and experienced leadership team. Supervision and good peer support is available as part of the local leadership structure and with clinical and managerial colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Do you want a career in a trust with a 2020 vision of achieving outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in? With a vision that includes becoming the employer of choice? Where our values guide how we do this? As one of the largest providers of children and young people's mental health, our Care Delivery Service (CDS) provides care across Sussex and Hampshire. Supported by our Clinical Academic Group (CAG) we work to put research, innovation and learning into practice. Our offer is for a career not just a job, in a team and a trust committed to delivering the best care possible to the community whilst being committed to the wellbeing of its staff - and endeavouring to show this by how we do, what we do - that our staff are our greatest asset and that staff wellbeing is a key priority"
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To work effectively within a multidisciplinary setting, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to integrated managerial/professional leadership.
• Achieve an agreed set of performance targets.
• Provide services within the agreed financial resources and achieve all financial targets, including cost efficiency savings ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
• To contribute in the planning and delivery of service objectives, managing specific change projects as required, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality and cost effectiveness.
• Respond to Serious Incidents (SI's), complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough investigation, effective communication of recommendations and closely monitoring actions to ensure they are fully implemented.
• Identify risk and take corrective action in line with trusts integrated governance framework.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification to masters or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services.
- Experience of working in a CAMHS or Children's Services Team.
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans.
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi-site).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
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Applicant requirements
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.
