CYP Mental Health Clinical Co-ordinator

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to step into the role of Team Coordinator for the 0-18 CYPMHS East Team. With your leadership skills and professional registration, you’ll support and inspire a dynamic team. You’ll use your excellent communication, organizational skills, and flexible approach to ensure a positive experience for every young person and family we care for.

Join a passionate and driven team committed to providing outstanding care, and play a key role in leading clinical staff while shaping the future of the service. Together, we will place the needs of children, young people, and their families at the heart of everything we do.

Main duties of the job

Provide dynamic operational management and leadership to the team, ensuring the successful implementation and ongoing delivery of Trust pathways and protocols. This will enable the team to consistently deliver safe, effective, high-quality, and compassionate care to our patients.

Clinically, you will manage a complex caseload. Providing high-level assessments and interventions that reflect the post’s seniority and your advanced experience and skills. You’ll also work closely with the Team Manager and other senior colleagues to foster effective multidisciplinary collaboration within the team and across the wider CYPMHS service.

You will ensure that clinical practice meets the required standards, with a focus on shared decision-making and continuous evaluation of care through routine outcome measures. A key part of your role will involve leading the recruitment, supervision, and development of staff, ensuring the team operates efficiently within available resources while meeting its performance targets.

Additionally, you will lead the establishment, implementation, and monitoring of policies and procedures, ensuring that the team remains compliant with the highest standards of care.

Working for our organisation

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Regulated with one of the following regulatory bodies: HCPC Professions and protected titles | (hcpc-uk.org) Registered Nurse (NMC Part One) The Nursing & Midwifery Council – The Nursing and Midwifery Council (nmc.org.uk) Social work England Home - Social Work England Association of Child Psychotherapists Register of Child Psychotherapists | Association of Child Psychotherapists (childpsychotherapy.org.uk) Degree level or equivalent qualification in health or social care related subject (Past Nursing diploma also accepted) N.B. Social workers registered with Scottish or Welsh regulatory bodies would be expected to register with the English regulatory body upon acceptance.
• Practicing at masters level or equivalent as evidenced by qualifications, post graduate studies and relevant experience.
• Nationally recognised post-qualification, continuous professional development (CPD) related to the core profession
• Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Masters or equivalent level qualification in health/social care.
• Therapeutic training to a recognised level.

Knowledge and Expertise

• Sound knowledge of current professional staff and team development and continuous service improvement.
• Knowledge of current legislation relating to MHA and Children’s Act.
• Information management and technology skills.
• The ability and knowledge to signpost to other services.
• Recognition of the interface between physical and mental health for children, young people and carers.
• Knowledge of the principles of CYP-IAPT

Experience

• Significant experience working within children and young people’s mental health.
• Multi agency/professional working experience.
• Experience of delivering supervision both clinical and line management supervision.
• Effective delivery of managing quality and change improvements.
• Evidence of management experience or further development within a leadership course.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Victoria Holmes Job title Team Manager Email address victoria.holmes28@nhs.net Telephone number 01625 712042 Additional information

In the absence of the team manager, Clinician Melanie Costello can also be contacted on 01625 712042.

If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100