CAMHS Crisis Pathway Psychological Therapies Lead

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health provider is seeking a CAMHS Crisis Pathway Psychological Therapies Lead in Edgware. This role involves leading a team of psychological therapists, influencing strategic direction, and promoting trauma-informed care for adolescents facing mental health crises. Ideal candidates possess advanced clinical skills and relevant qualifications, and have a strong background in mental health leadership.

Qualifications

• Significant experience at Band 8a or higher in children's mental health.
• Experience in clinical audits and developing action plans.
• Experience in implementing trauma-informed practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic development of the Crisis Pathway.
• Provide clinical supervision for psychological therapists.
• Directly deliver therapeutic interventions to families.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication

Consultation

Leadership

Education

Doctorate / PhD in relevant profession

Professional healthcare registration (HCPC, UKCP)

Training to supervisor level

Management or leadership training

Job description

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Client:

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Location:

Edgware, United Kingdom

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job overview

The CAMHS Crisis Pathway is a specialist set of teams working across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, to support adolescents in mental health crisis. The Crisis Pathway encompasses the A&E Hospital Liaison teams at Barnet and North Middlesex Hospitals, the Crisis telephone line and Crisis Hub, as well as the CAMHS Home Treatment Team and Beacon Centre inpatient and day patient services. The Crisis Pathway continues to develop and is expanding services to better meet the needs of young people in the area.

We are looking for a motivated practitioner psychologist or systemic psychotherapist to provide leadership to the psychological therapists on the pathway, and to work within the senior leadership team to influence the strategic direction of the pathway. This is to promote psychological and trauma informed thinking within the care provided by teams across the pathway.

Main duties of the job

• Contribute to the strategic development, planning and organization of the Crisis Pathway as a member of the senior leadership team, in line with local strategies and national priorities, working in partnership with a range of agencies and other senior management.
• Provide clinical and professional supervision for psychological therapist within the service and oversee the leadership of psychological therapists within the pathway.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care as well as delivering direct therapeutic interventions to young people and their families.
• To lead and develop psychologically informed provision across the crisis pathway including reflective practice, group supervision, and other ways of working.
• To work collaboratively with staff and service users, including via co-production to support service development.
• To provide teaching, workshops and training internally as needed.
• To support with audit and quality improvement

Working for our organisation

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.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the person specification/job description document for a detailed description of main responsibilities. This is not exhaustive however and other responsibilities can be included across BEH CAMHS as required.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this application early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached - please apply early to avoid missing out.

Person specification

Qualifications and Registration

• Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) or An AFT recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
• Professional healthcare registration, related to qualification above. (HCPC, UKCP)
• Post-qualification training to supervisor level in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice relevant to children and young people.
• Specialist training in supervision that has led to ‘approved’ clinical supervisor status
• Management or leadership training

Skills & Abilities

• Well-developed clinical skills working with children, young people & families.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communication sensitive information to young people, parents/carers and other professionals, and dealing with complaints.
• Skills in working effectively within and across organisational boundaries.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups. Skills in providing teaching/training and professional supervision
• Good computer skills,IT knowledge and knowledge of computer record systems
• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS and appropriate legislation
• Skills in facilitating reflective spaces or group supervision

Experience & Knowledge

• A significant number of post qualification years of experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young person’s mental health setting.
• Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement.
• Experience of child safeguarding and risk procedures and how these apply in CAMHS.
• Experience of representing psychological professions at policy level
• Experience of implementing trauma informed practice across systems
• Experience of leadership

Personal Qualities

• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional, and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with distressed children, adolescents, and their families/carer networks