Hertfordshire Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services is modernising and expanding! This post provides essential management, leadership and operational support for one of our four community CAMHS teams.

We are seeking an Operational Manager with a clinical background and a comprehensive understanding of clinical service delivery, service development and quality standards to support our community Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS).

These are exciting times for our CYPMHS services as we transform and enhance our services for young people across our County, and we are seeking applications from exceptional managers with a clinical mental health background and operational experience, to lead this exceptional community CYPMHS team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the allocation, deployment, prioritisation and delivery of services, for implementing and reviewing systems, policies, standards and procedures that ensure the provision of high quality services within frameworks agreed by the Trust.

The role will play a key role in the services transformation, and help to deliver quality, safety and efficiency in line with development plans

You'll be passionate about young peoples mental health, have substantial management experience within the NHS, and significant experience of working with clinicians and multi-disciplinary teams to achieve service improvement. We'd like to hear about your passion for operational management, and the difference you can make to service users and carers. It's an exciting role with a high degree of influence, working in an ambitious team.

You'll have the opportunity to participate in our Leadership Academy, and benefit from excellent promotion prospects, some state of the art clinical environments and the opportunity to be part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team of staff who are genuinely committed to improving the lives of our service users and carers. We have an excellent range of staff benefits.

About us

Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been amore exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating ofOutstanding awarded to us in April 2019. We are on our Great Together journey as we continue to innovate, improve, transform andultimately deliver the very highest standards of care to the serviceusers and communities that we serve.

Applications are welcome from forward thinking, conscientious and versatile individuals who are able to demonstrate understanding and experience in leadership and service delivery.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Operational Manager will have a mental health background with demonstrated achievements in operational leadership. They will have the ability to lead by example, motivate and empower others and will play a fundamental role in ensuring effective outcomes and high quality care for those using CYPMHS services in Hertfordshire. By inspiring a culture of high performance and continuous quality improvement in teams, the post holder will ensure the sustained provision of high quality services and standards for our service users, their carers and families.

This is an exciting time to join our service as we are developing new ways of working across both inpatient and community services and are looking for a strong leader to help us achieve our vision. Youll have demonstrable management experience within the NHS, and significant experience of working with clinicians and multi-disciplinary teams to achieve service improvement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First degree in a related health or social care professional qualification (e.g. Nursing, Psychology, Occupational Therapy or Social Work)
• Professional qualification to diploma level in relevant area of health or social care or healthcare management

Desirable

• Project Management experience

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working as a middle manager within a health or social care setting with day-to-day responsibility for delivering a service, leading a team and management of relevant resources.
• Proven track record of achieving objectives Experience of leading and delivering programmes of change within the public sector
• Experience of budgetary management or working within budgetary expectations.
• Experience of managing rostering systems with large staff teams or experience of organising staff teams to ensure safe service delivery
• Experience of developing processes and systems and embedding these into services

Desirable

• Specialist in CYPMHS

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Albans & Hemel Hempsted 99 Waverley Road St Albans AL3 5TL

99 Waverley Road

St Albans

AL3 5TL

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