Band 8A Young People’s Clinical Service Manager - BNSSG

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to lead the transformation of AWP’s young people’s transitions services. You will work across CAMHS, Adult Mental Health Services, localities and a wide range of external partners to implement an enhanced care model to support young people leaving CAMHS across BNSSG.
This is permanent post, working 30 hours per week (0.8 WTE). It requires flexibility to work across all BNSSG locations , but flexible working arrangements will be considered.
The transition from Children Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to adulthood and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) is a major concern for many young people and their parents or carers. AWP provides core Mental Health Services and Specialised Mental Health provision for children and adults across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.
Across AWP services there are some transition resources that aim to support young people passing through this complicated stage of life. These resources are allocated in different teams within AWP and are geographically specific across the trust’s area.
This post holder will be responsible for leading the resources available and recruiting new resource to form an enhanced Young People’s Transitions Service. They will be responsible for overseeing this and ongoing young people’s mental health transformation, supervising and supporting the team, delivering excellent safe and effective care.
AWP across their children and adult services, works in a complex system with several partners and stakeholders including Primary Health Care, Local Authority, Education, Social Care, VCSE and Criminal Justice. The post holder will navigate and influence the system ensuring young people leaving CAMHS have the mental health support required, including those that do not meet adult mental health services thresholds.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
This role is to form and provide management and leadership to the future Young People’s Transitions team.
To provide vision and leadership on the delivery to a number of identified Mental Health clinicians within your responsibility and remit
To provide vision and leadership to transform young people’s mental health services across BNSSG, and ensure that health inequalities are proactively addressed
To continue to maintain and enhance existing relationships with Commissioners, Partners and Stake Holders to improve outcomes for service users
To continue to develop services that you have been given responsible for. To ensure the development and delivery of high quality, multi-disciplinary Mental Health Services across your services and to work with the local audit teams to maintain quality and consistency to ensure the development and delivery of high quality services
To ensure the delivery of specialist advice, support and supervision in relation to the work of the Mental Health Services Managers and their teams. In the delivery of effective programmes and interventions for which the Trust has responsibility for, these can include medical, clinical and psychosocial
To actively work with the team to generate Service User Involvement, Lived Experience and Peer Support within the teams and services you have responsibility for
To take a guiding and supervisory role for the team to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the Mental Health Services that you are responsible for, helping meet targets and quality of delivery
This role will be responsible to provide clinical supervision to a range of mental health clinicians that are based in different teams and in different geographical areas. This post holder will hold a level of strategic vision in line with the Trusts clinical and medical strategy and will provide help and support in delivering this strategy
This post will be responsible for delivering agreed financial limits and activity levels, in accordance with the Service, Trust and National policies, utilising available resources to achieve the most effective outcomes
The post holder will initiate and support the development of quality improvements in the service, actively seek the views of their Manager, Service Users and Commissioners in these developments. They will also develop and implement long-term plans for improvements, design these improvements to fit within the Trust’s strategy and policy, and remain within national guidelines for good practice
This post holder will contribute to the development of a functioning Young People transition team, to help ensure objectives and outcome measures are set and achieved within the service framework
Another component will be the maximum development of staff potential and optimum staff performance, through appropriate training, development, professional supervision and appraisal of the staff
The Young People’s Clinical service manager will be responsible for the communication, implementation and monitoring of all relevant existing policies and procedures of the Trust (e.g. health and safety, complaints, grievance, disciplinary, etc.), and the development of appropriate new ones
The Young People Clinical service manager will ensure that staff meet contractual requirements and that staff morale at work is high

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