Job summary
Do you have the vision and drive to help grow our new Haringey Looked After Children CAMHS service?
We are looking for a creative and skilled CAMHS Clinician to support the Clinical lead in developing and implementing a new embedded service in partnership with LB Haringey's LAC team.
The ideal candidate will have CAMHS experience, including knowledge and experience of services embedded in social care settings and/or Looked After Children's services.
Apart from offering a chance to work in an interesting and rewarding clinical area, the post offers the rare opportunity to join a service from it's outset,and will offer a motivated clinician a chance to learn about and influence service development and gain experience building partnerships within the local authority.
Your primary place of work will be at the local authority building in Wood Green (Haringey Council, 48 Station Road, Wood Green, N22 7TR), with requirement to meet carers and young people in the community where clinically indicated. You will also need to attend the Trust base at St. Ann's and other CAMHS sites when required.
Main duties of the job
Working in partnership with the Clinical Team Lead and our LB Haringey partners, you will :
- support the Clinical Team lead as they build the clinical model for the service
- help ensure the voices of the children and young people the service cares for, and their carers, are central to the approach and clinical practice
- facilitate consultation to professionals, carers and young people
- deliver mental health assessment and intervention to young people, carers and families
- support any audit and evaluation of the model to help us refine and improve the offer and meet the KPIs set out by the local authority
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will support the development and provision of the newly commissioned Haringey LAC CAMHS Team.
The postholder will support the Team Clinical Lead in developing, implementing and evaluating the service provision.
You will undertake clinical work offering a comprehensive mental health service to children and their families the Haringey service cares for offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.
You will provide highly specialist mental health assessment and therapy as well as undertaking supervision and consultation to non-clinicians colleagues and to other non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of CYPMHS and LB Haringey policies and procedures.
There is requirement to report patient safety and safeguarding incidents, and to contribute to investigation of complaints and clinical incidents.
Liaison with professionals across health, social care, education and youth justice services, and any other relevant community partners is essential. The postholder will be expected to work in highly flexible ways and on an outreach basis in community environments subject to the needs of the young person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will support the development and provision of the newly commissioned Haringey LAC CAMHS Team.
The postholder will support the Team Clinical Lead in developing, implementing and evaluating the service provision.
You will undertake clinical work offering a comprehensive mental health service to children and their families the Haringey service cares for offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.
You will provide highly specialist mental health assessment and therapy as well as undertaking supervision and consultation to non-clinicians colleagues and to other non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of CYPMHS and LB Haringey policies and procedures.
There is requirement to report patient safety and safeguarding incidents, and to contribute to investigation of complaints and clinical incidents.
Liaison with professionals across health, social care, education and youth justice services, and any other relevant community partners is essential. The postholder will be expected to work in highly flexible ways and on an outreach basis in community environments subject to the needs of the young person.
Person Specification
Qualification/ registration
Essential
- Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) AND Registration with the Healthcare Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist OR An AFTSP (formerly AFT) recognised Masters-level training leading to qualification as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist AND United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registration (Systemic)
Desirable
- Supervision training
- Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post- doctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
- Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
- Knowledge and ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RIO) and database/statistical applications.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a relevant mental health service (e.g. CAMHS team, mental health service working with care experienced young people and their carers, or in a mental health service embedded in social care), including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of specialist assessment and intervention of clients across mental health settings
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multiagency contexts.
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.
- Experience of both group and individual work.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching & training
Personal Qualities
Essential
- A commitment to service users' participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.
Desirable
- Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Person Specification
Qualification/ registration
Essential
- Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) AND Registration with the Healthcare Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist OR An AFTSP (formerly AFT) recognised Masters-level training leading to qualification as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist AND United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registration (Systemic)
Desirable
- Supervision training
- Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post- doctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
- Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
- Knowledge and ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RIO) and database/statistical applications.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a relevant mental health service (e.g. CAMHS team, mental health service working with care experienced young people and their carers, or in a mental health service embedded in social care), including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of specialist assessment and intervention of clients across mental health settings
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multiagency contexts.
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.
- Experience of both group and individual work.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching & training
Personal Qualities
Essential
- A commitment to service users' participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.
Desirable
- Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
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).
