CAMHS Berkshire Link Team Manager (inc CIC & H&J)
Are you an experienced leader within a Childrens service looking for a new opportunity to gain experience overseeing multiple teams?
Do you have a background as a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker looking to use your clinical experience in a dynamic managerial role?
In this role, you will provide operational management across our dedicated Mental Health Team for Children in Care (CIC), Health & Justice Service (H&J), alongside managing our Berkshire LINK team.
The LINK team forms part of the Thames Valley-wide programme for children and young people with complex cases, is centred around the implementation of a practice framework known as the ‘Framework for Integrated Care’.
It is designed to improve outcomes for a cohort of vulnerable children and young people with complex cases who experience some of the highest levels of health inequality in society.
Please Note
Staff for the CiC and LINK teams will be based at Erlegh House, Reading University. Like the Health and Justice team, the CiC team will work in partnership with three Local Authorities in West Berkshire, Reading and Wokingham.
The LINK team will work across Berkshire. The LINK programme is a Hub and spoke model. The Hub is run by our colleagues in Oxfordshire Health with three spoke teams within Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire making up the Thames Valley-wide programme.
Duties
- Promote continuous quality improvement by embedding lean methodology tools into the team to support patient care, quality of service, staff wellbeing and engagement.
- Accountable for the delivery of high-quality, effective and integrated interventions that safeguard children and promote their development and welfare, so that children, young people, and their families are offered quality and timely assessment, intervention, and support as commissioned.
- To support the delivery of high-quality decision-making to ensure targeted and appropriate support to children and families is delivered.
- Empower staff to solve problems and support each other to deliver the highest possible quality of care.
- Working with the professional leads and other service managers, develop an effective and motivated workforce within the area of responsibility, which delivers services that are fit for purpose and are equitable and consistent across Berkshire, where contracts allow.
- Working with the professional leads, lead the development of all the team roles and structure the teams within the area of responsibility to promote joined integrated working for children, young people, and their families.
- Budget holder for Berkshire Link team
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working together with you to develop innovative solutions
Benefits
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme, including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and the armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Jamie Poole
Job title: Talent Acquisition Partner
Email address: jamie.poole@berkshire.nhs.uk
