CAMHS SPA Team Manager

Due to internal promotion, the CNWL all age mental health Single Point of Access has a vacancy for a CAMHS SPA Band 7 Team manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, creative and innovative service as part of our management team. We are looking for an experienced mental health professional (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or psychological therapist), and it would be a fantastic career progression for a Band 6 clinician who wishes to broaden their experience or a current Band 7 looking for a new challenge.

This dynamic multi-disciplinary service has been running since June 2021, offering a single point of access for mental health tele-triage, signposting, advice and support 24-hours a day, seven days per week, 365 days a year for young people under the age of 18. TheCAMHS SPA Team Manager will work closely with the adult SPA and SHINE Team Managers and with the Clinical Lead for CAMHS SPA to maintain the day to day running of the service, providing senior clinical input and support to the team, playing a key role in building internal and external interfaces, and contributing to the ongoing development of the SPA.

The CAMHS SPA Team Manager will be expected to work a flexible shift pattern, although working nights is not required in this role. Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience. The CAMHS SPA Team Manager is responsible for the daily running of the SPA (CAMHS) Team and supports the Clinical Lead in the operational management of the service.

Other responsibilities include:

• Providing management & clinical supervision, coaching, mentoring of existing staff and new staff taking up post; and motivating and supporting individuals to achieve their objectives.
• Contribute to the provision of training, coaching and clinical group supervision to the wider all-age SPA.
• Answering calls to the CAMHS SPA in a patient and courteous manner, and to screen and prioritise these appropriately.
• Undertaking clinical triage of calls to the CAMHS SPA, deciding on the correct care pathway for that call.
• Referring callers onto CAMHS local teams where appropriate and liaising with teams.
• Signposting callers on as necessary into non-statutory, third sector services (Thrive networks).
• Undertaking initial social care triage, and where necessary, signposting and referring on patients as appropriate.
• Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all SPA staff to act in a way which shows they understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with patients, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members. As a member of SPA staff we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
  
  We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
  
  As a member of SPA staff we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team
• Responding to calls within time limits set out in the All-Age SPA Operational Protocols.
• Being fully conversant with statutory and non-statutory services across Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster, and the provision of CNWL CAMHS services in each borough.
• Ensuring safe and effective delivery of care / advice to young people and their carers, utilising own knowledge and skills.
• Providing support, information and education to family members, carers and other professionals who may access the CAMHS SPA.
• Building and maintain excellent working relationships with key stakeholders, such as Core and Urgent Care CAMHS team, GPs, the Police and LAS.
• Acting as the point of escalation in CAMHS SPA in relation to difficult calls and being able to further escalation as appropriate.
• Demonstrating good risk assessment and management skills, ensuring that decisions made regarding calls are in the interests of the individual patient's needs and their safety.
• Participating in both…