Band 6 Deputy Team Leader

The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust are looking to recruit to 2 Band 6 Deputy Team Leader vacancies. The posts are full time and permanent. The posts will be based at North Staffordshire CAMHS, Dragon Square, North Stoke CAMHS, Roundwell Street, Tunstall and South Stoke CAMHS inBlurton. The successful postholder will:

• Support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the community mental health team, offering support and advice to the wider team.
• Work as part of the leadership team within the CAMHS community mental health team under direct/indirect supervision of the Team Leader.
• Take part in multi-disciplinary triage meetings reviewing referrals received to the team.
• Complete initial needs assessments as needed with newly referred patients and offer oversight and guidance to core team members.
Main duties of the job To deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of patients and liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes. To ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this. To liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services., To support Team Leader with the day to day operational and clinical delivery of the CAMHS Team. - To deputise in the absence of the Team Leader. - To work alongside the Team Leader and Clinical Pathway Lead in embedding the clinical pathways within the CAMHS teams. - To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers and partner agencies.


• A qualified/registered mental health Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse/LD Nurse, Social Worker, OT)
• Experience in CAMHS, Experience of working therapeutically in community settings at Band 6
• Experience of CAMHS Clinical Pathways, Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment for children and young people
• Skills in co-ordinating complex care packages
  
  As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.