Deputy Schools Mental Health Service Lead

Job introduction

We are looking for a Deputy Service Lead with the Schools Mental Health Service.

You will be working with the Service Lead to ensure that line management and supervision of team members is undertaken in a professional and appropriate manner, leading on broader mental health initiatives and covering for the Service Lead when appropriate. The Deputy Service Lead will need to be aware of trends and data in order to support the Service Lead with decision making.

You will also have a clinical workload, and will require an appropriate professional qualification in order to undertake this.

Fixed term: 12 months

For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Mehmet Agdiran Head of Schools Mental Health Service Mehmet.Agdiran@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

Represent the service at wider meetings, undertake specific areas of focus and work with colleagues from other services, both within Brighton and Hove and pan Sussex.

Provide a day-to-day operational support service across all elements of the service through line management, performance management and clinical supervision within the Schools Mental Health Service (SMHS), working as a member of the Senior Team to ensure all guidance documents, policies and clinical offers are operating within National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines and national standards.

Provide leadership around clinical work and undertake clinical supervision for the SMHS, with the support of the Clinical Psychologist within the service.

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Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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Company information

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Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and How we create a fair and inclusive workplace.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.