Assistant Psychologist Young People Service Camden & Islington

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in North London is seeking an administrator for the Minding the Gap Partnership to support young people's transition into adult services. The role involves managing administrative tasks, conducting data collection, and collaborating with various services. Candidates should possess strong organizational skills and the ability to work across multiple sites.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong administrative support skills.
• Experience with data collection and report production.
• Ability to liaise with partner agencies effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the MTG/ITT meetings.
• Assist in research and service development projects.
• Conduct data collection and report production.

Job description

Overview

The post is part of the Camden Minding the Gap Partnership (MTG) and Islington Transitions Team (ITT), an initiative to improve the transition experience of young people (aged 17-25) from CAMHS and other services into adult services and to make services more accessible and user-friendly. The post-holder will support the MTG and ITT by administering the referral meetings, liaising with services regarding transition cases, and collecting data for Camden & Islington Commissioners and preparing data reports. In addition, the post holder will spend one day per week in one of the Young People Service Clinical Pathways (to be discussed and agreed with the Post Holder’s supervisor once they have started). The post holder may work across multiple sites within the trust, with time spent at each site varying according to service need.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Provide a full range of high-quality administrative support to the MTG/ITT Minding the Gap meetings, including capturing data and preparing papers for quarterly reporting to commissioners for the service.
• Assist in the design and implementation of research, audit and service development projects within the service as required.
• Conduct data collection, analysis, and the production of reports and summaries using databases and statistical programmes as required, across several different electronic patient records held by CAMHS and Adult Services.
• Accurately take and circulate minutes of meetings, type correspondence, reports, summaries and other documents, both clinical and general.
• Manage the receipt of referrals and generate the agenda for the MTG/ITT Meeting.
• Assemble information about cases in advance of the MTG/ITT meeting.
• Support action points from the MTG/ITT Meeting by liaising with partner agencies as required.
• Interview clients to capture qualitative data around the experience of transition.
• Financial responsibility: The post holder will hold responsibility as requisitioning officer for the Young People and Transitions Service; training will be provided.

About North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)

NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• 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 a 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 falls 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.