Salisbury - Deputy Team Manager - Wiltshire MHST

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Do you have excellent leadership and organisational skills? Are you passionate about improving the wellbeing of Children and Young People?

Wiltshire MHST are in the process of expanding our provision further across Wiltshire and are therefore recruiting for the role of Deputy Team Manager to join our teams in preparation for providing coverage to over 60% of learners in Wiltshire.

This is an exciting time to join a specialist service which provides timely early intervention to children and young people.

You will be able to create effective working partnerships with School Staff, Social Care and other key stakeholders. You will work closely with the Clinical Team Manager and Supervisors to help ensure we are a safe and effective clinical team.

Main duties of the job

You will facilitate good communication and liaison with young people, their families, interfacing with schools/colleges, colleagues within the Trust and across other organisations.

You will be responsible for providing leadership to the team, providing advise on complex cases, liaising with the education settings on clinical cases, unlocking barriers to engagement, building up key relationships, attending national conferences and seminars and reporting information as necessary.

This post will suit someone with a passion for working in early intervention and prevention. This is an exciting venture and collaboration between Health, Education, local authority and voluntary sectors.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”.

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Banes, Swindon and Wiltshire CAMHS have a real ethos of compassionate leadership and kindness.

We are happy to support an element of home based working but we also have returned to having some face-to-face meetings as we believe this is key to well functioning teams.

We have access to a robust internal training programme as well as a dedicated CAMHS training lead who will support you whilst new in post.

You will work with the Team Manager to ensure the successful and effective day-to-day management of the Service so that it provides a responsive, high quality service to patients with common mental health problems.

As Deputy Team Manager, you will have specific lead areas of responsibility whilst also maintaining effective links with mental health leads, children’s services, public health and other stake holders.

You will support the team in identifying, and in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, addressing training and development needs for the service.

The Deputy Team Manager will act as a key person to support the team with advice and signposting in relation to safeguarding and risk management. The role will involve supporting the Team Manager in liaising with stakeholders, managing staff and resources and meeting stringent data collection requirements.

The Deputy Team manager also contributes to the promotion of staff well-being and morale in the Team through developing and maintaining supportive relationships.

You will also be required to be part of the on-call rota as a Senior Mental Health Professional.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the MHST agenda
• Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs
• Knowledge and experience of CBT informed practice

• BABCP accreditation / accreditable
• Experience of contributing to the leadership /management of a clinic, project, aspect of clinical work

Qualifications

• Relevant professional mental health qualification, e.g. Mental Health Nurse/Learning Disability Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker/HI CBT Therapist
• Current registration with relevant professional body – NMC, HCPC

• CBT qualification

Skills

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carer’s and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Effective organizational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritize own workload

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups

Experience

• Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs.
• Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals

• Experience of running / co-running groups.
• Experience of teaching other professionals

Other contractual requirements

• Ability to travel between sites and to locality meetings
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing