CAMHS LAC Clinical Team Lead

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in London is seeking a Practitioner Psychologist to lead the new Haringey Looked After Children CAMHS service. This part-time role involves developing and evaluating clinical models, supervising a team, and providing essential mental health services to children and young people. Ideal candidates should hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and have substantial CAMHS experience. Competitive salary of £70,396 to £80,837 per annum, pro-rata offered.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum two years postqualification experience in a CAMHS team.
• Experience in providing psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the Haringey LAC CAMHS Team.
• Implement and evaluate the clinical model.
• Supervise a small clinical team.

Skills

Ability to contain and explore high levels of distress

Good IT skills

Clinical supervision and appraisal skills

Enhanced biopsychosocial assessment skills

Skills in providing consultation

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Clinical supervision training

Tools

Electronic clinical records

Microsoft systems

Job description

Do you have the vision and drive to help grow our new Haringey Looked After Children CAMHS service? We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist ready to step into this exciting opportunity to set up a new embedded service in partnership with LB Haringey. 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. The Integrated Services team are a group of services embedded in community settings and/or working closely with clinical networks. We offer supportive management, dedicated to ensuring our integrated CAMHS teams remain well held and connected to the wider CAMHS teams.

Main duties of the job

Working in partnership with the Service Lead and our LB Haringey partners, you will lead on the development, implementation and ongoing evaluation of the new service:

• building on our existing clinical model in place in Enfield, adapting it to suit the Haringey context
• designing-in ways to ensure the voices of the children and young people the service cares for, and their carers, are central to the approach and clinical practice
• oversee clinical governance of the team, line managing and supervising the clinical work of a small team
• facilitating consultation and intervention to professionals, carers and young people, and
• undertaking audit and evaluation of the model to help us refine and improve the offer and meet service KPIs

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.

Note that we may close the vacancy early if sufficient applicants.

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.

• 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.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

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 responsibilities

The post holder will lead the development and provision of the newly commissioned Haringey LAC CAMHS Team.

Coordinating a small team (currently an 8a CAMHS clinician and psychiatrist, but likely to increase as the service develops and matures), the postholder has responsibility for developing, implementing and evaluating the services clinical model appropriate to the context of the embedded CAMHS service. Working with the Service Lead you will support capturing the approach in operational procedures to guide the team.

The Clinical Lead will undertake clinical work and supervision, offering a comprehensive mental health service to children the service cares for offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.

They will provide highly specialist mental health assessment and therapy as well as undertaking supervision and consultation to non-clinical colleagues and to other non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of CYPMHS and LB Haringey policies and procedures.

The role will include offering clinical supervision, clinical governance, and management oversight to the team. 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

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent); AND Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of post registration continuing professional development (CPD)
• Clinical supervision training
• PHD / doctorate qualification related to clinical practice
• Trained and accredited in additional therapeutic modality/ assessment skills relevant to the mental health of looked after children (e.g. Systemic approaches, DDP, trauma interventions, ADOS-2)

SKils/ Abilities

• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• Good IT skills with knowledge of electronic clinical records and Microsoft systems
• Clinical supervision and appraisal skills
• Good working, functioning as part of multi-disciplinary team and liaison with external agencies i.e. primary care, education, social and health care.
• Enhanced biopsychosocial assessment skills
• Good self-reflective and supporting others in reflection skills
• Job planning and time management skills, for self and supporting others
• Well-developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Experience & Knowledge

• At least 2 years post qualification experience at Band 8a or higher in a relevant children / young person mental health setting, e.g. a CAMHS team embedded in Social Care setting, or LAC CAMHS team
• 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, including those in the Care system.
• 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' therapeutic 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
• Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
• Understanding of the policy and legislation issues influencing the work environment.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Personal Qualities

• Maintain professional standards and follow codes of practice
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with relevant parties
• Ability to adopt a positive view of change
• Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice.
• Flexibility

Other

• Ability to transfer to other health and non-healthcare sites as and when required.

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.

Primary base: 38 Station Road, N22 7BF Trust base: St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey

£70,396 to £80,837 a yearper annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0490

Job locations

Primary base: 38 Station Road, N22 7BF Trust base: St Ann’s Hospital, Haringey