Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Allied Health Professional to join the Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey CAMHS division. You will be working with the Borough Based clinical leads and service leads under the leadership of the CAMHS Head of Therapies, developing service innovations and a workforce to deliver the transformed CAMHS services across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. You will be the professional lead for Allied Health Professional workforce, providing leadership and ensuring adequate supervision and professional development is implemented across the division.
Main duties of the job
- To develop and oversee a complex and multistranded occupational and arts therapy programme and support staff in evaluating and making changes to these.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients.
- To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based treatment.
- To be responsible for highly implementing specialist therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams
- To ensure assessment and treatment is based on best available evidence of effectiveness, using a variety of methods to inform best practice, e.g., critical appraisal of literature and research, professional guidelines, and outcome measures.
- To set up and manage innovative schemes as required by the service.
- To monitor and evaluate clinical input through individual supervision, direct supervision, staff meetings and random selection of clinical notes.
- To guide and support staff in carrying out clinical audits, linking in with the clinical audit department.
About us
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The post holder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will always behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical Responsibilities
- To develop and oversee a complex and multistranded occupational and arts therapy programme and support staff in evaluating and making changes to these.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients.
- To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based treatment.
- To be responsible for highly implementing specialist therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams
- To ensure assessment and treatment is based on best available evidence of effectiveness, using a variety of methods to inform best practice, e.g., critical appraisal of literature and research, professional guidelines, and outcome measures.
- To set up and manage innovative schemes as required by the service.
- To monitor and evaluate clinical input through individual supervision, direct supervision, staff meetings and random selection of clinical notes.
- To guide and support staff in carrying out clinical audits, linking in with the clinical audit department.
- To keep up to date on services for users of the service within the Trust and external to the Trust and keep staff informed of new developments and ways of accessing these.
- To highly apply specialist skills and knowledge to evidence own professional competence and fitness to practice as an AHP.
- To ensure that all eligible AHPs including the post holder comply with the Fair Share Agreement as practice educators hosting practice placements for AHP students.
2. Responsibility for Human Resources
- To work with borough and pathway clinical leads to ensure a non-medical workforce which has the necessary skill mix
- To work with clinical leads on staff recruitment and lead on the AHP recruitment process, which will include writing advertisements, writing, and updating job descriptions and person specifications, short listing, drawing together questions for the interview, chairing the interview panel and contacting candidates.
- To follow through disciplinary policy with individual staff members as required.
- To identify AHP training needs and make decisions about how these needs should be met and actioned.
- To ensure commitment to continuing professional development by ensuring staff take regular time for CPD activity. To ensure the allocation of time for regular critical appraisal sessions.
- To liaise with the AHP Practice Education Coordinator and support this role as required.
- Develop research and audit within the service in liaison with the research and audit teams.
- To develop academic links with university training courses and promote research and academic writing.
- To maintain an overview of the occupational and arts therapy service in its entirety, ensuring cover and re-deployment of staff as appropriate.
- Ensure all newly qualified therapy AHP staff participate in the Preceptorship programme
- To provide teaching sessions across the service to promote new ways of working and increase skills of the workforce.
- To attend mandatory training as identified by the Trust and to ensure staff and students are instructed in health and safety, fire, emergency and security procedures. To ensure compliance with all policies relating to mandatory training.
- To be available to provide training to outside organisations as required and agreed with the Head of Therapies and senior service lead.
- To keep abreast of clinical developments and inform and support staff in relation to these
- Ensure AHP services meet professional standards and best current practice, complying with legislation and policy and HCPC regulations.
- Overall responsibility for ensuring that new staff receive appropriate local induction to their clinical area and the local division
- Ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for continuous professional development for all AHP staff in the CAMHS division
- Ensure that all Therapies staff are registered with HCPC and adhere to their Code of Practice
- Ensure that all Therapies staff receive regular and relevant clinical supervision
- Provide clinical supervision to senior AHPs in the division.
- Responsibility for ensuring there are clear systems for professional appraisal for all Therapies staff and the development of appropriate professional development plans
- Participate as a full member of senior leadership teams, representing the value of AHPs and ensuring that AHPs are part of the decision-making process
- Participate in the delivery of AHP learning programmes including the B5 and B6 development programmes
- To be a member of relevant Management Groups, representing AHPs, ensuring critical information flows to and from the groups
- To work with the clinical leads to ensue that critical information flows to and from the necessary groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical Responsibilities
- To develop and oversee a complex and multistranded occupational and arts therapy programme and support staff in evaluating and making changes to these.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of patients.
- To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based treatment.
- To be responsible for highly implementing specialist therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams
- To ensure assessment and treatment is based on best available evidence of effectiveness, using a variety of methods to inform best practice, e.g., critical appraisal of literature and research, professional guidelines, and outcome measures.
- To set up and manage innovative schemes as required by the service.
- To monitor and evaluate clinical input through individual supervision, direct supervision, staff meetings and random selection of clinical notes.
- To guide and support staff in carrying out clinical audits, linking in with the clinical audit department.
- To keep up to date on services for users of the service within the Trust and external to the Trust and keep staff informed of new developments and ways of accessing these.
- To highly apply specialist skills and knowledge to evidence own professional competence and fitness to practice as an AHP.
- To ensure that all eligible AHPs including the post holder comply with the Fair Share Agreement as practice educators hosting practice placements for AHP students.
2. Responsibility for Human Resources
- To work with borough and pathway clinical leads to ensure a non-medical workforce which has the necessary skill mix
- To work with clinical leads on staff recruitment and lead on the AHP recruitment process, which will include writing advertisements, writing, and updating job descriptions and person specifications, short listing, drawing together questions for the interview, chairing the interview panel and contacting candidates.
- To follow through disciplinary policy with individual staff members as required.
- To identify AHP training needs and make decisions about how these needs should be met and actioned.
- To ensure commitment to continuing professional development by ensuring staff take regular time for CPD activity. To ensure the allocation of time for regular critical appraisal sessions.
- To liaise with the AHP Practice Education Coordinator and support this role as required.
- Develop research and audit within the service in liaison with the research and audit teams.
- To develop academic links with university training courses and promote research and academic writing.
- To maintain an overview of the occupational and arts therapy service in its entirety, ensuring cover and re-deployment of staff as appropriate.
- Ensure all newly qualified therapy AHP staff participate in the Preceptorship programme
- To provide teaching sessions across the service to promote new ways of working and increase skills of the workforce.
- To attend mandatory training as identified by the Trust and to ensure staff and students are instructed in health and safety, fire, emergency and security procedures. To ensure compliance with all policies relating to mandatory training.
- To be available to provide training to outside organisations as required and agreed with the Head of Therapies and senior service lead.
- To keep abreast of clinical developments and inform and support staff in relation to these
- Ensure AHP services meet professional standards and best current practice, complying with legislation and policy and HCPC regulations.
- Overall responsibility for ensuring that new staff receive appropriate local induction to their clinical area and the local division
- Ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for continuous professional development for all AHP staff in the CAMHS division
- Ensure that all Therapies staff are registered with HCPC and adhere to their Code of Practice
- Ensure that all Therapies staff receive regular and relevant clinical supervision
- Provide clinical supervision to senior AHPs in the division.
- Responsibility for ensuring there are clear systems for professional appraisal for all Therapies staff and the development of appropriate professional development plans
- Participate as a full member of senior leadership teams, representing the value of AHPs and ensuring that AHPs are part of the decision-making process
- Participate in the delivery of AHP learning programmes including the B5 and B6 development programmes
- To be a member of relevant Management Groups, representing AHPs, ensuring critical information flows to and from the groups
- To work with the clinical leads to ensue that critical information flows to and from the necessary groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- oMaster's degree or equivalent level of experience in a relevant allied health discipline
- oHCPC registration
- oEvidence of continuous personal and professional development
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- oEffective verbal and written communication skills regarding report writing, care planning, and communicating where there may be significant barriers to understanding skills to manage and effectively lead a staff group.
- oEffective personal management skills, including excellent time management and the ability to prioritise, delegate and problem solve.
- oSelf-motivated and confident in working independently in a clinical and leadership capacity.
- oDemonstrates professional approach and appropriate boundary keeping with staff and patients and able to instruct others on professional standards of communication.
- oAble to critically appraise literature and research and use to inform own practice and service development.
- oAbility to promote the role of the therapist within the multidisciplinary teams.
Desirable
- oEvidence of project management skills.
- oExperience in writing business cases for recruitment and effective use of resources.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- oRelevant extensive clinical postgraduate experience, including significant experience as a senior practitioner working with people with complex needs.
- oExperienced lead planner and facilitator in a range of treatment sessions on a group or individual basis including practical based, discussion, support and psycho-educational groups. Including experience of working with clinical staff of a variety of grades to support their development of treatment skills.
- oProviding clinical supervision
- oImplementing and sustaining measures to improve productivity.
- oWorking autonomously, being responsible for own practice.
- oExperience of using a range of evaluation tools and outcome measures to plan evaluate and monitor therapy programs to ensure the effective use of clinical priorities.
- oExperience in producing and maintaining client-centred treatment plans and instructing others in the same.
Desirable
- oExpertise in the specialism of CAMHS and in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice in relation to the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation in this area. This to include advanced clinical skills in group and individual therapy.
- oExperience of investigating serious and untoward incidents, formulating recommendations and plan relating of these.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAware of own needs and limitations - able to seek advice and support appropriately.
- oHighly motivated and able to motivate others
- oAble to sustain demands of fulfilling role working with a challenging client group in a pressurised environment.
Other Requirements
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- oMaster's degree or equivalent level of experience in a relevant allied health discipline
- oHCPC registration
- oEvidence of continuous personal and professional development
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- oEffective verbal and written communication skills regarding report writing, care planning, and communicating where there may be significant barriers to understanding skills to manage and effectively lead a staff group.
- oEffective personal management skills, including excellent time management and the ability to prioritise, delegate and problem solve.
- oSelf-motivated and confident in working independently in a clinical and leadership capacity.
- oDemonstrates professional approach and appropriate boundary keeping with staff and patients and able to instruct others on professional standards of communication.
- oAble to critically appraise literature and research and use to inform own practice and service development.
- oAbility to promote the role of the therapist within the multidisciplinary teams.
Desirable
- oEvidence of project management skills.
- oExperience in writing business cases for recruitment and effective use of resources.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- oRelevant extensive clinical postgraduate experience, including significant experience as a senior practitioner working with people with complex needs.
- oExperienced lead planner and facilitator in a range of treatment sessions on a group or individual basis including practical based, discussion, support and psycho-educational groups. Including experience of working with clinical staff of a variety of grades to support their development of treatment skills.
- oProviding clinical supervision
- oImplementing and sustaining measures to improve productivity.
- oWorking autonomously, being responsible for own practice.
- oExperience of using a range of evaluation tools and outcome measures to plan evaluate and monitor therapy programs to ensure the effective use of clinical priorities.
- oExperience in producing and maintaining client-centred treatment plans and instructing others in the same.
Desirable
- oExpertise in the specialism of CAMHS and in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice in relation to the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation in this area. This to include advanced clinical skills in group and individual therapy.
- oExperience of investigating serious and untoward incidents, formulating recommendations and plan relating of these.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAware of own needs and limitations - able to seek advice and support appropriately.
- oHighly motivated and able to motivate others
- oAble to sustain demands of fulfilling role working with a challenging client group in a pressurised environment.
Other Requirements
Essential
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
