EHWS Deputy Clinical Lead

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Full time
Are you a psychological professional, mental health nurse, systemic family therapist or social worker with further therapeutic qualifications?

Do you have experience leading children's mental health services?

Are you looking for a senior leadership role in early intervention services, where you can use your clinical and leadership experience, to lead an amazing workforce of dedicated staff, working closely across the health and education sectors?

We have a brilliant opportunity for the right candidate to clinically lead our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The successful post holder will lead on the continued implementation and provision of a high-quality schools based early intervention service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will also lead the MHST's in delivering evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service and the EHWP's in delivering advice and guidance to professionals. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will clinically lead Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service (EHWS), including the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (EHWP) team and the growing Mental Health Support Teams (MHST).

This role will provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring effective implementation and on-going delivery of service pathways and protocols in order that the service can deliver a safe and effective, high quality compassionate service.

Job responsibilities

Furthermore, the successful candidate will:

Develop positive working relationships with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people and their families Recruit and retain a workforce needed to implement the MHST programme Lead on future further MHST roll out Develop pathways for referrals into and around the system, working closely with YOUnited leads Work closely with their counterpart(s), in Norfolk and Waveney, providing holiday cover and peer support Develop and maintain systems and pathways for safe and effective multidisciplinary, multi-agency working within education settings Develop and implement ongoing evaluation of impact measures, feeding data to the Mental Health Data Set, and other required reporting mechanisms Work closely with the University of East Anglia (UEA), who are the training provider for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) The post holder will also represent the Trust both internally and externally to numerous stakeholders from a range of services and organisations

The post holder will clinically lead the EHWS, by: Being responsible for the recruitment of a workforce that can deliver the MHST model, including leading the roll out of subsequent teams. Being responsible for the development of a workforce that can implement interventions that are evidence based and within the clinical competencies of the developing workforce Developing and maintaining systems and pathways for safe and effective multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working within a range of settings. Developing and implementing ongoing evaluation of impact measures with quarterly reporting Leading on research in the field of Early Intervention mental health services for Children, Young People, families, and their education establishments Modelling excellent clinical practice and clinical work, working across the service Developing working relationships and regular professional liaison and feedback with multiagency stakeholders, including children, young people and their families Delivering a service with excellent clinical governance, in accordance with Trust Processes

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential Relevant professional postgraduate qualification in a mental health related subject Evidence of CPD in CYP Evidence of management and leadership experience

Desirable Qualification in management and/or leadership CPD in management and/or leadership

Experience

Essential Clinical Leadership experience in CYP setting Demonstrates experience with leading on clinical outcome measures Demonstrates understanding of importance of clinical governance Well developed clinical skills Well developed supervisory skills

Desirable Experience with working with Education establishments Experience with co-production

Knowledge & Skills

Essential Skilled in service development in CYP setting Skilled in MHST working Demonstrates skills in working at a strategic level Skilled in developing staff Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills Knowledge of key literature relating to MHSTs Knowledge of England's Education system

Desirable Skills in supervising staff from a variety of clinical backgrounds

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Address

EHWS HQ

The Oaktree Centre

Huntingdon

PE29 7HN

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