Job at a glance
This is an exciting opportunity to bring your professional registration, experience, and leadership skills to a service that makes a real difference. We are looking for a motivated and compassionate leader with strong communication, organisational abilities, and a commitment to supporting and developing staff. As a key member of the CPFT YOUnited partnership, you will lead and supervise CAMHS clinical staff, champion high standards of care, and contribute to ongoing service development.
Our service continues to evolve, and we are dedicated to ensuring that Children, Young People and their Families remain at the centre of everything we do. The YOUnited Hub processes non-crisis referrals of children and young people referred. Triaging each referral for risk and making decisions about whether referral meets the threshold for specialist CAMHS pathways, a trusted assessment within the "getting more help" CAMHS interventions pathways, or a "getting help" partners intervention pathway, or signposting the referral to the appropriate service or offer suitable advice working within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Referral Hub's policies and procedures.
If you are passionate about high-quality care and eager to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you.Main duties of the job Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines. Work in partnership with the YOUnited Partner Team Managers, Clinical Leads and the Service Manager and other senior staff in CAMHS to establish effective multi-disciplinary working within the YOUnited Referral Hub and the wider CAMH Service and system partners.
Liaise with partner agencies and stakeholders, including commissioners, to support the access of children and young people to appropriate emotional health, welling being and mental health services. Lead on the recruitment and supervision of staff, operating within the available resources to achieve the required targets. Lead on the establishment, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures.
To provide advice and consultation on children and young people's mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures., Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. Managerial To provide operational leadership within the team, working with relevant professional and pathway leads and Service Managers and YOUnited Partner Team Managers and Clinical Lead for the planning and delivering of the service including the triage, screening, and assessment functions of the Integrated Referral Hub.
With the YOUnited Clinical Leads, ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard and within current quality initiatives within the area of work. To lead on recruitment and selection process of staff. To develop and maintain the delivery of operational supervision process for team members. To monitor the caseload/ workflow in team ensuing adherence to Trust pathways and protocols.
Clinical To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people referred to the service. To maintain awareness of the resources of the core, neuro-developmental and eating disorders pathways in main Community CAMHS, and the administrative systems for booking appointments in those teams. To work alongside Community CAMHS to ensure that waiting time standards are met.
To follow the Standard Operating Procedures of the YOUnited Referral Hub. To network and develop partnerships with CAMH professionals and other professionals within Social Care, Education, Early Help services, General Practitioners, Child Health services, Health Promotion agencies and the Voluntary / Independent sector., HPC r