Band 8a Operational Manager - Camhs Team in Guernsey

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Job Title: Band 8A Operational Manager
Specialism: CAMHS Team
Location: Guernsey, UK
Salary: Negotiable
Contract: Ongoing Contract

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Band 8A Operational Manager to lead the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) team in Guernsey. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated operational leader to oversee the delivery and continued development of high-quality, equitable mental health services for children and young people. Offering a negotiable hourly rate and an ongoing contract with full-time or part-time working arrangements, this role is ideal for a professional with strong leadership skills and a commitment to service improvement, multidisciplinary collaboration and evidence-based practice.

Perks and benefits:

• Benefit from a negotiable hourly rate, reflecting your experience and expertise.
• Choose between full-time and part-time working arrangements to suit your circumstances.
• Enjoy the continuity of an ongoing contract within a specialist CAMHS service.
• Take a leading role in shaping service delivery, improving patient outcomes and developing mental health provision for children and young people.

What you will do:

• Lead the CAMHS service, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, equitable care to all patients while supporting the development of specialist clinical functions and maintaining comprehensive service provision.
• Ensure clinical practice is evidence-based and aligned with relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations.
• Oversee the implementation of a single assessment process, ensuring assessments are undertaken by the most appropriate professionals, followed by advice, signposting or allocation to interventions and longer-term support where required. Promote a streamlined approach that avoids unnecessary internal referrals and repeated assessments.
• Work closely with the operational manager for inpatient and community services, ensuring continuity of care and supporting care coordinators to maintain their involvement with patients during inpatient admissions.
• Liaise with the manager of Healthy Minds, Family and Children's Services and third-sector organisations to establish clear pathways for psychological therapies and promote collaborative service delivery.
• Develop a multidisciplinary approach to eating disorder services, ensuring staff receive appropriate training and support to deliver effective interventions.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with GP practices, schools and other providers involved in supporting children and young people.
• Explore an open-discharge approach, allowing children and young people to access the service for up to a year without requiring a new referral or reassessment.
• Promote co-production and service user involvement, ensuring children, young people and their representatives have meaningful opportunities to influence service development within available resources.
• Embed a Quality Improvement (QI) approach to strengthen team engagement and encourage active participation in service improvement initiatives.
• Continue using QNCC to monitor service standards and benchmark performance against UK services.
• Collaborate with other departments and partner agencies to develop mutual understanding, strengthen professional relationships and support joint decision-making where appropriate.

Guernsey offers a distinctive setting in which to develop your career within specialist children's mental health services. This opportunity provides the chance to contribute to the continued development of CAMHS provision within the island's healthcare environment, working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues and partner organisations to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. As Operational Manager, you will play an influential role in shaping accessible, collaborative and responsive services while driving meaningful improvements in care delivery.

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