Clinical Team Manager - Adult Community Eating Disorders

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job description

Clinical Team Manager - Adult Community Eating Disorders

Are you a qualified Mental Health professional with leadership experience, looking for a new challenge?

Do you have experience working within Eating Disorders and looking for a progression step in a newly restructured team?

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Clinical Team Manager to lead our Adult Community Eating Disorder (ACED) Service across Oxfordshire. This is a unique opportunity to shape and deliver high-quality, evidence-based care within a forward-thinking and collaborative team.

As Clinical Team Manager, you will hold overarching clinical and operational responsibility for the ACED service. You will provide strong leadership in the ongoing development of the service in line with the Oxfordshire Community Mental Health Framework, promoting early intervention and integrated community-based care.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the Oxon Service Manager and Head of Service, playing a key role in transformation projects, interagency partnerships, and pathway integration. A central part of your role will involve supporting a multidisciplinary team in delivering person-centred, safe, and effective treatment.

The purpose of the Clinical Team Manager will be:

1. Lead, support, and manage a multidisciplinary team, ensuring clinical excellence and operational effectiveness.
2. Coordinate service delivery in line with Trust and national policy, including NHS Long Term Plan priorities.
3. Drive service development projects and quality improvement initiatives.
4. Develop and maintain robust partnerships across internal and external stakeholders, including GPs, CAMHS, AMHTs, and the Voluntary and Community Sector.
5. Ensure a high standard of clinical governance, risk management, and performance monitoring.

About us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team". Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent".

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

1. Excellent opportunities for career progression.
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development.
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service.
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers.
5. Competitive pension scheme.
6. Lease car scheme.
7. Cycle to work scheme.
8. Employee Assistance Programme.
9. Mental Health First Aiders.
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply).
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role, and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We welcome prospective candidates to contact us to discuss the role and potentially arrange a site visit prior to interview.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma.
• Understanding of the legal and social policy issues influencing the work environment.
• Knowledge of eating disorder services.
• Knowledge of latest healthcare policy e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.
• Professional Health or Social Care Qualification.
• Current professional registration with appropriate professional body e.g. NMC, HCPC.
• Post qualification Management or leadership qualification and/or willingness to work toward this.

Experience

• Highly extensive experience in a mental health setting, working with adults or young people with mental illness and/or learning disabilities.
• Experience of leading a development or change within a service setting.
• Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, or Eating Disorder setting (Inpatient or Community).
• Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice.
• Experience of Management supervision and case management in a clinical setting.
• Experience of audit process at service level and contribute to wider Trust audit.
• Experience of developing practice (nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychological therapies).

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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum/pro-rata.