CAMHS LAC Clinical Team Lead

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the City of Westminster seeks a Practitioner Psychologist to lead the new Haringey Looked After Children CAMHS service. The ideal candidate will have CAMHS experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, focusing on high-quality care delivery in partnership with local authorities. This role involves clinical governance, team supervision, and community engagement, along with a supportive work environment offering NHS discounts and flexible working.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working with Looked After Children.
• Ability to adapt clinical practices to local contexts.
• Skill in leading a small clinical team.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of the new CAMHS service.
• Oversee clinical governance and supervise team members.
• Facilitate consultation and interventions in community settings.

Skills

CAMHS experience

Clinical governance

Consultation skills

Evaluation and audit

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

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.

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.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Key Focus Areas

• 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

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.