Job Description

We are excited to be advertising for a 12 month Fixed Term 0.6 WTE Band 7 Clinical Team Manager.



Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children's community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams. As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

The CTM role is:

Provide day to day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within a clinical pathway.



Line manage a team of clinicians working within the pathway. and you will provide specialist clinical interventions and advice as required



Ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need.



Work within a CFHD pathway of care providing support to speech and language therapists across the designated pathway/s of care.



Screen and triage referrals and ensure a strengths-based approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to support the complex packages of care for children with additional needs in the community.



Contribute to risk assessment and care planning in collaboration with children, young people and their carers.



Provide specialist SLT assessment, advice and interventions to children, young people and their families and to hold a caseload of children with complex needs.



Provide supervision and support to team members.



Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.



CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.



CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.



Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.



Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve



Successful applicants will be employed by Torbay and South Devon FT (link to Why work for us Why work with us - 1 (pagetiger.com) )



Advocate on behalf of CYP and to be at the forefront of clinical development within their specialist clinical area



Effectively communicate with children, families and staff to be able to sensitively impart difficult news and respond appropriately to complaints and challenges



Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the whole of CFHD



Represent speech and language therapy and/or individual patient to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi-disciplinary service and to integrate speech and language therapy management in to the overall management plan. This may involve health/social care staff, voluntary and private sector. This will involve providing specialist advice to the multi-disciplinary team on management of recovery and discussion of patient care, progress and discharge planning



Communicate complex and sensitive condition-related information from assessment to children/young people and families, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team/other professions in a way that is accessible and easily understood. This will include facilitating strategies for people with communication disorders where barriers to understanding may exist



Demonstrate empathy with children/young people families, carers and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to communication exist, or sensitive issues are being dealt with.



Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team



Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care including triage, assessment, clinical formulation and care planning, treatment, and discharge of children and young people



Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector



To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team



Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs



Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in a range of formats.