Clinical Team Manager

at  Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Children and Family Health Devon is a system-wide service that delivers an integrated, coordinated support model which wraps around the child, young person and family. It has been specifically designed to respond to all elements of the commissioners strategy and specification along with the vision and strategic direction of the Integrated Care System for Devon. It builds on our strong relationships across education, health, social care and voluntary sector services in Devon, and, most importantly, it has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers. Children and Family Health Devon is part of an Alliance that is unique and brings together five leading providers of adult and childrens community, acute and mental health services in Devon: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Devon Partnership NHS Trust Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Livewell South West .along with key voluntary sector organisations: Young Devon Vranch House Kooth and, academic partners: University of Exeter University of Plymouth Marjon University Children and Family Health Devon is committed to promoting equity and inclusion for all communities; to providing specialist children and young peoples health services which are accessible, appropriate and which recognise the diversity of people, their needs and choices.
Job Purpose To provide day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within a clinical pathway. To line manage a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians working within the pathway. To provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as required. To provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of the service.
The post holder will manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical leads and other managers. To ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need. To ensure the service is based on best practice and evidence; is outcomes focussed and audit and routine outcome monitoring is used to improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for children and young people. To provide specialist clinical interventions, and advice to professionals internally and externally.
Ensure that care and treatment is delivered in response to local need in partnership with communities and other local services To be an integral part of the locality leadership team, collaboratively driving the overall service strategy, objectives, vision and ambitions and contributing to transformational change and continuous service improvement. Within this role the post holder will: 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. Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and feedback elicited, considered and acted-upon. In partnership with the Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively.
To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and improvement Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety. Work with other Team Managers across the multi-agency system of childrens services in the locality to ensure the clinical pathway is delivered as part of an integrated system of care, to improve health outcomes for children and young people. Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets Ensure robust financial management of the teams activities 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, adapting communication to meet the needs of others.
To deputise for the Operations Manager as required. Our Children and Young People say We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.
When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure. The core value of Children and Family Health Devon is that all staff will actively seek the views of children, young people, parents and carers in a variety of ways and use this feedback to develop their own practice and support the development of the service as a whole. This aspect of the work will be central within all supervision and appraisal processes

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