East London NHS Foundation Trust
East London CAMHS Crisis Clinical Team Manager

The closing date is 22 November 2026

Job summary
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic CAMHS Crisis Team Manager who is passionate about crisis management and ensures safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high risk population.

This is a 12-month Secondment Role and would therefore require current line manager approval for successful candidate.

East London CAMHS Crisis Service delivers co-ordinated care to children, young people (up to the age of 18 years old) and their families in mental health crisis across City & Hackney, Newham & Tower Hamlets.

The Crisis Service works in close collaboration with the Specialist CAMHS, Adult Psychiatric Liaison Services, local authorities and emergency services. The service is available 24 hours/7 days per week. The Service sits within the CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Pathway, alongside East London CAMHS Eating Disorder Service, CAMHS Home Treatment Team and DBT Team.

The service works closely with colleagues within the sub-directorate, as well as colleagues within our community CAMHS service and external partners.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be managerially and operationally responsible for all aspects of the service delivery for the East London CAMHS Crisis Team. This task will be delivered in conjunction with the Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Service Manager through effective leadership. The post holder will supervise and ensure that the clinical team are providing high quality services to the local population. The post holder will lead on contributing to a positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team and lead on innovative developments in the service. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The post-holder will produce reports on developments for managers and multi-agency partners.

About us
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.

Details
Date posted: 06 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £72,719 to £83,505 a year per annum
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 363-SS8324778-A
Job locations: Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney, Barking Road, London, E13 8AL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To provide visible leadership in a continuous quest for improving professional development, performance and quality, promoting a clear sense of direction within the team that is in keeping with the achievement of the Services objectives and modernisation of services
• To provide inspirational operational and clinical leadership of multidisciplinary clinicians in the team to ensure young people experiencing serious mental illness have access to evidence-based assessments and interventions
• To ensure that effective operational procedures are in place to allow the delivery of a responsive service that fully meets the relevant needs of the children, young people and their families.
• To ensure the team has strong and effective links with other relevant services across the localities, including representing the service on appropriate multiagency groups, communicating highly complex information and contributing to the overall development of services.

See Job Description for more details.

Person Specification
Professional qualifications and training

• Essential: Degree level study or equivalent / Further post degree qualification
• Essential: Current Registration with appropriate professional body e.g. ACP/ HPC / UKCP / NMC
• Essential: Leadership / management qualification
• Desirable: Masters Qualification relevant to the post

Experience

• Essential: Experience of service development and change management.
• Desirable: Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation to staff.
• Desirable: 2 or more years' experience of providing senior clinical leadership at 8A (including line management responsibilities)

Skills and abilities

• Essential: Strong leadership and management capacity obtained working with complex service users in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Essential: Ability to build and develop teams which should include teaching, supervision, and training.
• Essential: Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict, and work with diversity.
• Desirable: Undertaking quality improvement initiative.

Knowledge

• Essential: Knowledge of clinical risk management systems and processes
• Essential: Broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
• Desirable: Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for the CAMHS client group

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: East London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer's website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Service Manager, Valentine Dube, valentine.dube@nhs.net, 07341789670

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