CAMHS Team Manager | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	17 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£59,490 - £66,239 per annum incl HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	17 July 2025
Location:	London, HA2 8EQ
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7273729/333-G-CA-1561

Summary

Looking for new work environment?

Want to make meaningful change?

Ready for a challenge that uses both your practitioner and management expertise?

Harrow is one of the UK’s most diverse boroughs and around 63,472 children and young people live here. Our 0-19 population makes up 24.3% of harrow residents (ONS, 2021), so it is especially important that we place our families at the centre of everything we do.

We are recruiting a dedicated CAMHS Team Manager to lead on the mental health outcomes for children, young people and their families within Harrow. The postholder will the smooth running of a team, budget management and performance monitoring of the Highly skilled workforce. Demonstrating strong a passion to the service and families grounded in the community we serve.

Maintaining stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and accounting for risks to service delivery will be key in order to ensure we are working towards our key performance indicators.

Working alongside peers from four other boroughs, our service line has a well-resourced Senior Management Team, with an assigned Service Manager and Business Manager for all service and operational needs. CNWL CAMHS pride ourselves on innovation and thinking flexibly about the care we deliver. This service is supported by virtual therapy and assessment offers via our partnersHealiosandKooth.

There’s a place for you at CNWL, and here’s what it looks like:Harrow CAMHS



We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and committed Team Manager to work alongside the Service Manager and Clinical Lead, Therapy Lead and Business Manager to support staff and to ensure service users are able to access timely and effective treatment. A strong CAMHS, mental health, and/or Children's Service clinical background is desirable but not essential for the role as this role is also suitable for a band 7 who is ready to be supported into a band 8A role. Support training and guidance will be provided to the right candidate.

You will be expected to support the development of all staff and a commitment to meaningful engagement with children & young people, families and other stakeholders to help continuously improve our services is essential.

You will need to demonstrate excellent organisation, analytical, written and inter personal/communication skills and be comfortable working under pressure, to tight timescales and making decisions on a daily basis. You will require excellent communication skills to drive progress forward and work both virtually and when able be present to colleagues and families as required.

CNWL have a pioneering history of improving health outcomes in people’s lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community. To find out more about CAMHS pleaseCLICK HERE.

Staff are the heartbeat of our organisation! You’ll have direct liaison with your Service Manager and Head of Service to develop your career. You'll receive monthly supervision to support bespoke training, development offers, and our leadership and development programme, see the “Staff rewards and wellbeing handbook” for more details.

We take flexible working seriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforce's competing work-life demands#LetsTalkAboutFlex

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As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and your patients when working in our healthcare settings.

To take day to day operational management responsibility in the planning, directing and performance management of the work of all local CAMHS contracted services, including all core CAMHS teams including Adolescent and LD teams.


The post holder will ensure that service access and delivery is efficient, effective, evidence based, needs led and service user and carer focused. They will provide clear leadership, in partnership with the Service Manager in order to ensure access to timely treatment and intervention by well led and motivated staff that contributes to promoting safety and achievement for all children and young people.


The post holder will take the lead in and actively encourage and support staff to build strong links with other providers of community resources, utilising all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients. They will ensure that commissioning priorities of the relevant ICB and Local Authority are adhered to, taking day to day responsibility for the management and smooth running of the referral, assessment and patient allocation processes.




This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Jul 2025

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