Clinical Team Lead

This post will form part of the CAMHS senior leadership team in City and Hackney and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people with mental health problems and their families.

Working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Psychological Therapies Lead, the post holder will provide inspirational leadership of multidisciplinary clinicians to ensure effective, evidence based assessment and treatment, accessible care pathways and a culture of continuous quality improvement.

The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and operational management of one of the multi-disciplinary teams., The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Clinical Director for delivering a multidisciplinary CAMHS service, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved patient experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. S/he will deliver on performance targets and quality outcomes in order to transform the service, improving access to and choice of evidence based therapies and building capability to deliver positive and measureable outcomes for children and young people and their families.

Responsibilities will include working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager, Psychological Therapies Lead, other Clinical Team Leads and Emotional & Behavioural team leads elsewhere in the Trust in service planning and development, the development of bids and business cases, advising on issues of staff performance, and providing clinical and professional advice and leadership to facilitate service improvements

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.