East London CAMHS Crisis Clinical Team Manager | East London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£72,719 - £83,505 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E13 8AL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Nov 2026
Closing date:	5 Dec 2026

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Summary

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic CAMHS Crisis Team Manager who is passionate about crisis management and ensures safe and effective interventions are delivered to a high risk population.

This is a 12-month Secondment Role and would therefore require current line manager approval for successful candidate.

East London CAMHS Crisis Service delivers co-ordinated care to children, young people (up to the age of 18 years old) and their families in mental health crisis across City & Hackney, Newham & Tower Hamlets.

The Crisis Service works in close collaboration with the Specialist CAMHS, Adult Psychiatric Liaison Services, local authorities and emergency services. The service is available 24 hours/7 days per week.

The Service sits within the CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Pathway, alongside East London CAMHS Eating Disorder Servicen CAMHS Home Treatment Team and DBT Team.

The service works closely with colleagues within the sub-directorate, as well as colleagues within our community CAMHS service and external partners.

The post holder will be managerially and operationally responsible for all aspects of the service delivery for the East London CAMHS Crisis Team. This task will be delivered in conjunction with the Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Service Manager through effective leadership.

The post holder will supervise and ensure that ensure that the clinical team are providing high quality services to the local population. The post holder will lead on contributing to a positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team and lead on innovative developments in the service. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The post-holder will produce reports on developments for managers and multi-agency partners.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• To providevisible leadershipin a continuous quest for

improving professional development, performance and

quality, promoting a clear sense of direction within the team

that is in keeping with the achievement of the Service’s

objectives and modernisation of services

• To provide inspirational operational and clinical leadership of

disciplinary clinicians in the team to ensure young people

experiencing serious mental illness have access to evidencebased

assessments and interventions

• To ensure that effective operational procedures are in place to allow the delivery of a responsive service that fully meets the relevant needs of the children, young people and their families.

• To ensure the team has strong and effective links with other relevant services across the localities, including representing the service on appropriate multiagency groups, communicating highly complex information and contributing to the overall development of services.

See Job Description for more details.

This advert closes on Sunday 22 Nov 2026

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