Job summary
Do You Want to make a difference to the lives of Young Children with learning disabilities? Do You Want to work in a friendly and dynamic service? Then look no further than Haringey Children and Young people Mental Health Service!
This role is to provide clinical leadership on the service provision and development of Haringey CAMHS within the Learning Disability Team also known as the SCAN Team. The role includes having a small clinical caseload providing expert therapeutic intervention, as well as the clinical leadership and management of the service. This role is supported by job planning along with support from the team manager and clinical lead within Haringey CAMHS. The post holder would support the delivery of the service provision and for implementing and reviewing systems, policies, standards and procedures that ensure the provision of high-quality services within frameworks agreed by the Trust and the Commissioners.
Main duties of the job
- To take overall management responsibility for clinical service delivery and and some operational matters.
- To take an active role is service development in line with service and national guidance and stakeholder views.
- Provide senior clinical leadership / consultation to colleagues.
- To maintain an active caseload as relevant to professional registration in line with job plan as determined with CAMHS Clinical Lead. Job plan will allow for balance of clinical / managerial work as required by the needs of the service.
- To support and supervise staff, chair team meetings and respond to queries. To advocate for the service and be instrumental in leading service delivery and development.
About us
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people.We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where youcan thrive and succeed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Hold a clinical caseload, providing specialist therapeutic intervention
- Support junior colleagues with their caseload management to work effectively and efficiently and creating capacity to take on new cases.
- Overseeing day to day management of the Service in conjunction with other Haringey CAMHS teams, coordinating the clinic-based service, along with outreach where required
- To take a lead role as referrals coordinator / duty clinician to ensure that young people are triaged and screened into the service or signposted as appropriate, in consideration of risk and urgency
- To develop and maintain an effective case management service to ensure the care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout service users treatment.
- Ensuring high standards of record/case note recording in line with an integrated clinical care notes policy.
- To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the teams in providing a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team ensuring the delivery of high-quality community mental health care packages.
- To work in partnership with key agencies to ensure easy access for children and families into CAMHS
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Hold a clinical caseload, providing specialist therapeutic intervention
- Support junior colleagues with their caseload management to work effectively and efficiently and creating capacity to take on new cases.
- Overseeing day to day management of the Service in conjunction with other Haringey CAMHS teams, coordinating the clinic-based service, along with outreach where required
- To take a lead role as referrals coordinator / duty clinician to ensure that young people are triaged and screened into the service or signposted as appropriate, in consideration of risk and urgency
- To develop and maintain an effective case management service to ensure the care and continuity of treatment is maintained throughout service users treatment.
- Ensuring high standards of record/case note recording in line with an integrated clinical care notes policy.
- To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the teams in providing a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team ensuring the delivery of high-quality community mental health care packages.
- To work in partnership with key agencies to ensure easy access for children and families into CAMHS
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Membership of HCPC
Desirable
- o Qualified ASD training, i.e. ADOS o Accredited supervisor training o Teaching / Mentoring qualification o Management / Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience as a registered healthcare practitioner within community Neurodevelopmental / Learning Disability CAMHS
- At least 2 years post qualification experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young persons mental health setting
- Experience of providing psychological therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of moderate to severe mental health problems in the community
- Experience of child safeguarding procedures and how these apply in community CAMHS
- Experience of developing clinical practice
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan.
- Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Membership of HCPC
Desirable
- o Qualified ASD training, i.e. ADOS o Accredited supervisor training o Teaching / Mentoring qualification o Management / Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience as a registered healthcare practitioner within community Neurodevelopmental / Learning Disability CAMHS
- At least 2 years post qualification experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young persons mental health setting
- Experience of providing psychological therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of moderate to severe mental health problems in the community
- Experience of child safeguarding procedures and how these apply in community CAMHS
- Experience of developing clinical practice
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan.
- Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement
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
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).
