Job summary
Team Lead for CAMHS Eating Disorders
1.0 WTE, permanent role. We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Eating Disorders Team Lead to join the Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service in Coventry and Warwickshire. This is a full time, permanent role and within a growing and thriving CAMHS Eating Disorders (ED) service. We are keen to hear from nurses who are passionate about making a difference for children, young people, and families.

Main duties of the job

• Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patient, team activity, performance, quality and staffing matters.
• To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Child and Family Services business unit, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce.
• To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
• Management of staff.
• Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes.

About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

Job responsibilities

• To support the development and delivery of services, which are responsive to needs and circumstances, at agreed levels of quality and performance
• To make a leading contribution to the development of an integrated, multi-professional workforce, as part of the transformational change programme
• To work collaboratively with other Trust services and external partners (such as social care, the acute sector and third sector organisations) to support the delivery of locally and nationally prescribed outcomes
• Contribute to the development & implementation of responses to relevant national and local policies, programmes and initiatives
• Service Manager for specialist mental health and additional vulnerabilities
  Team Leader
  Eating Disorders home treatment offer
  Team Leader
  Eating Disorders
• To work collaboratively with key external stakeholders, conducting themselves in accordance with CWPT organisational principles and values at all times
• Deputise for the Service Manager at key meetings and partnership meetings, as appropriate
• Where appropriate, hold a small clinical caseload, constituting no more than 40% of the overall role

Communication

• To communicate effectively with peers and staff about key corporate, business unit and service issues, relating to performance, quality, service user experience, resources and policies
• To undertake team meetings and staff briefings for the team
• To actively encourage staff to contribute ideas to develop the service

Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act

• Monitor team performance, quality and activity levels on a regular basis and take appropriate action to address any issues arising
• Implement agreed processes & systems to identify, assess and respond to service user requirements
• Contribute to the analysis of relevant national and local policy, programmes and initiatives
• Contribute to overseeing and ensuring the Health, Safety and security initiatives within the service; adhering to the principles of risk management and health and safety legislation, taking action when issues are identified within the service and for the trust

Planning and Organisational Skills

• To contribute to the development and implementation of business plans for the service
• Support and promote the development of evidenced based practice in all aspects of the team, including participation in training staff as required and specific to areas of clinical expertise
• To contribute to the identification and understanding of health needs of local populations
• To implement new ways of working that lead to more effective practice and more efficient use of resources

Physical Skills

• Keyboard use

Responsibility for Patients / Clients

• Contribute to the co-ordination and delivery of safe and effective services, in conjunction with other services and agencies, where appropriate
• Secure the provision of advice relating to children who are eligible for the service

Policy and Service Responsibilities

• Contribute to securing the involvement of service users, key external stakeholders and staff in the planning and design of services, ensuring that views are actively sought and acted upon in order to identify gaps and future trends in service provision
• Act as a point of contact for the team
• Support and promote the development of clinical policies, procedures and protocols in line with the Trusts Clinical Governance strategy
• To be aware of CWPT Child Protection Policies and Procedures, including attendance at initial mandatory training study days and participation in annual updates

Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources

• To ensure appropriate equipment use, in line with evidence based protocols and Trust policies and procedures
• Monitors and contributes to the drawing up of department budgets or financial initiatives

Responsibility for Staff

• Provide leadership and management of the staff within the team, including direct reports
• Management support of staff through service development and change
• Be responsible for, participate in (as appropriate) and oversee the recruitment and selection process for new team staff
• Provide where necessary clinical/managerial supervision to team members
• To ensure all personnel policies and monitoring required for the team is undertaken as appropriate eg. sickness absence monitoring, disciplinary and grievance policies, etc.
• Contribute to workforce planning for the service
• To ensure the most effective deployment of staff within the team, reflecting need, local circumstances and policy priorities

Responsibility for Information

• To be responsible for the provision of briefings and reports to senior RISE management and Operational Management Team meetings, as required
• To manage team performance and quality, as indicated through KPIs, quality measures, taking corrective action as required to achieve targets

Research and Development

• To encourage and enable research, service evaluation and audit in the team

Physical Effort

• Combination of sitting, standing and walking

Mental Effort

• Effective management of complex and challenging issues, often having to balance competing high-priority pressures

Emotional Effort

• Deal with staff problems, patient complaints; convey unwelcome / difficult news

Working Conditions

• Office environment with regular use of business systems and regular travel

OTHER DUTIES

• The post holder will be required to use a computer, either a stand alone or as part of a networked system and will be responsible for the quality of information. The amount of time spent on this type of work will depend on the job.
• The Trust embraces the principles of Improving Working Lives and all staff will be required to adhere to the standards laid down in this initiative.
• The post holder will be required to take part in an annual performance appraisal, where this job description will be reviewed, and objectives set.
• The Trust has a No Smoking Policy that prohibits any smoking whilst at work.
• To follow and adhere to the Trusts Health and Safety Policies and instructions and be responsible for your own and others health and safety in the workplace.
• The post holder is expected to contribute to the creation of a working environment where everyone feels respected, valued and treated with dignity.

This job description is not exhaustive and may be amended in consultation with the post holder. It should be reviewed whenever major changes have been agreed to the post and should be reviewed as part of the annual appraisal process to ensure it remains an accurate reflection of the duties and responsibilities undertaken by the post holder.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior supervisory level
• Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children's field - mental health, neurodevelopment, learning disability

Knowledge
Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
• Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries.
• Conflict resolution skills
• Strong understanding of national policy in relation to health services for children and young people
• Good interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Chairing skills and ability to manage meetings
• Good analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions from combinations of qualitative and quantitative information sources and present in a concise manner.
• Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Demonstrable capability to plan over short and medium term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Ability to champion a more effective use of technology within the service and new ways of working
• Ability to positively motivate staff
• Ability to manage poor performance

Experience
Essential

• Experience of implementing new pathways of care
• Demonstrable experience of driving service improvements
• Experience and understanding of safeguarding
• Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure team performance or quality
• Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Safeguarding Children and Adults: All Trust staff has a responsibility to ensure the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This includes attending statutory and mandatory training, adhering to local Safeguarding Children and Adults boards policies and procedures and inter-agency guidance as identified in the Trusts Safeguarding policies and procedures.

Confidentiality: Personal information and many of the duties of this post are of a confidential nature and disciplinary action will be taken if confidential information is divulged to inappropriate persons.

Data Protection Act: All staff are reminded of their duties and responsibilities as employees under the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) and in particular to ensure that Personal Data is not negligently or unlawfully handled or disclosed to unauthorised persons.