Greenwich CAMHS Operational Manager | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,408 - £73,961 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE18 3RG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6215159/277-6215159-CYP |
Summary
We are pleased to advertise a rare and exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS leadership group asOperational Managerforspecialist community CAMHSservices in theRoyal Borough of Greenwich.
As Operational Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that high quality and responsive clinical services are provided to children, young people and families/carers within Greenwich. You will work in close partnership with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within the Trust to realise our ambitious goals for Greenwich CAMHS and to drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Extensive experience ofoperational managementandexceptional leadership skillsare critical to success in this role - you will need to be a strong, compassionate and convincing communicator with an energy and passion for working with children and young people and in delivering transformational change. As such, we welcome applications from candidates with diverse experiences, including those without a clinical background.
Greenwich CAMHS works with children and young people aged 0-18 years with severe and enduring emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties. The service is underpinned byCYP IAPTprinciples and places great emphasis upon exciting and creative user participation work and service development.
The service is aligned to the nationally recognisedTHRIVEframework and provides interventions to service users on a needs-led basis. The service also has close relationships with wider CAMHS services in the Trust, including our cross-borough Crisis and DBT pathways.
We have established close working relationships with a range of partners within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and South-East London more broadly, including Children's Social Care and local schools.
The post is located in a modern clinic base in Shooters Hill, a short distance from Woolwich Arsenal train station with regular access tocentral London&Kentvia the Elizabeth Line, DLR and national rail services.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Please See Attached Job Description and Person Specification
Our Values:
Our values express our heart at Oxleas. They are the lens we look through to guide our behaviours day-to-day, informing how we act, the decisions we make, and how we work with our service users, patients, families, carers, and colleagues.
Our values have been developed through discussions with our staff, patients, and local people about what our priorities should be to support us to achieve our mission of ‘Improving lives’.
They have also emerged through open and honest conversations about race inequality and difference and how we can continually create an environment that delivers excellent patient care and makes Oxleas a great place to work.
About The Organisation:
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is one of the most successful and innovative healthcare providers in the country. Since becoming a Foundation Trust in 2006 the organisation has continued to thrive and now provides integrated mental health, learning disabilities and community services for much of South East London and a range of more specialist services in Kent and other counties.
Oxleas has worked hard to develop an organisational culture based on excellent care, valuing people and placing the needs of service users at the very centre of all decision making – it is this approach that has won the Trust numerous accolades over the years including as one of the HSJ’s Best Places to Work 2014.
Oxleas is a great place to work - we regularly achieve highest ranking results in the National Staff Survey.
We provide care for people of all ages and work closely with a variety of partners to ensure that our services are well-integrated and wide-ranging. We have a workforce of around 3,500 people including many highly skilled health and social care professionals. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent.
We have been the main provider of specialist mental health care for more than ten years and have developed a comprehensive portfolio of services in community and hospital settings. We also provide specialist forensic mental health care across South East London and in Kent Prisons.
Training:
The Trust is committed to the development and retention of our workforce. You will be able to access a range of CPD/training opportunities whilst in post, including targetedCAMHS mental health courses. The Trust has also developed close partnerships with institutions such asGreenwich Universityand the renownedAnna Freud Centre.
We recognise that you may not have previous experience of working within CAMHS - we do not see this as a barrier to your application and encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Through asupportive induction process, we will work with you to identify your transferrable skills and to ensure you are supported to develop where this is needed.
Benefits:
The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that you feel valued as a staff member and are pleased to offer an extensive range of benefits for you. This includes:
• Generous pay(outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (and life assurance) and leave package
• Agileandflexible workingarrangements, including part-time working and job sharing
• Access tointernal trainingand development courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)
Other benefits include acycle-to-workandlease car scheme,electric vehicle charging pointsand funding forschool holiday childcare. Employees are also able to access a range of wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) and staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ and lived experience.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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