CYP Mental Health Clinical Co-ordinator

Job overview

We are thrilled to offer an exciting relocation package of up to £8,000 for clinical professionals eager to join Cheshire and Wirral Partnership! If you're ready to make a fresh start and move closer to our vibrant community, this is your chance.

If you’re living more than 40 miles from the base of the role you’re applying for, and are willing to relocate within 15 miles of your new base, you could be eligible for this incredible opportunity. Be sure to mention it on your application, and we’ll explore this further if you’re invited to interview.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to step into the role of Team Coordinator for the 0-18 CYPMHS East Team. With your leadership skills and professional registration, you’ll support and inspire a dynamic team. You’ll use your excellent communication, organizational skills, and flexible approach to ensure a positive experience for every young person and family we care for.

Join a passionate and driven team committed to providing outstanding care, and play a key role in leading clinical staff while shaping the future of the service. Together, we will place the needs of children, young people, and their families at the heart of everything we do.

Main duties of the job

Provide dynamic operational management and leadership to the team, ensuring the successful implementation and ongoing delivery of Trust pathways and protocols. This will enable the team to consistently deliver safe, effective, high-quality, and compassionate care to our patients.

Clinically, you will manage a complex caseload. Providing high-level assessments and interventions that reflect the post’s seniority and your advanced experience and skills. You’ll also work closely with the Team Manager and other senior colleagues to foster effective multidisciplinary collaboration within the team and across the wider CYPMHS service.

You will ensure that clinical practice meets the required standards, with a focus on shared decision-making and continuous evaluation of care through routine outcome measures. A key part of your role will involve leading the recruitment, supervision, and development of staff, ensuring the team operates efficiently within available resources while meeting its performance targets.

Additionally, you will lead the establishment, implementation, and monitoring of policies and procedures, ensuring that the team remains compliant with the highest standards of care.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details. When applying, ensure your application highlights your skills, knowledge, and experience in alignment with the essential criteria to increase your chances of being shortlisted.

Working for our organisation

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: [email protected] or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Regulated with one of the following regulatory bodies: HCPC Professions and protected titles | (hcpc-uk.org) Registered Nurse (NMC Part One) The Nursing & Midwifery Council – The Nursing and Midwifery Council (nmc.org.uk) Social work England Home - Social Work England Association of Child Psychotherapists Register of Child Psychotherapists | Association of Child Psychotherapists (childpsychotherapy.org.uk). N.B. Social workers registered with Scottish or Welsh regulatory bodies would be expected to register with the English regulatory body upon acceptance.
• Practicing at masters level or equivalent as evidenced by qualifications, post graduate studies and relevant experience.
• Nationally recognised post-qualification, continuous professional development (CPD) related to the core profession
• Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Degree level or equivalent qualification in health or social care related subject (Past Nursing diploma also accepted)

• Masters or equivalent level qualification in health/social care.
• Therapeutic training to a recognised level.
• Supervision qualification

Knowledge and Expertise

• Sound knowledge of current professional staff and team development and continuous service improvement.
• Knowledge of current legislation relating to MHA and Children’s Act.
• Information management and technology skills.
• The ability and knowledge to signpost to other services.

• Recognition of the interface between physical and mental health for children, young people and carers.
• Knowledge of the principles of CYP-IAPT

Experience

• Significant experience working within children and young people’s mental health.
• Multi agency/professional working experience.
• Experience of delivering supervision both clinical and line management supervision.
• Effective delivery of managing quality and change improvements.

• Evidence of management experience or further development within a leadership course.