iSPA Clinical Specialist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist children's mental health service is seeking a skilled professional to join their integrated team in London. You will respond to urgent referrals, conduct thorough assessments, and provide evidence-based interventions. The ideal candidate must have clinical judgment, excellent communication skills, and compassion for young people's mental health. This role will entail collaboration with multiple stakeholders to deliver effective mental health care.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered professional with strong clinical assessment skills and knowledge of mental health.
• Proven experience in delivering effective interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage urgent referrals.

Responsibilities

• Respond to referrals and queries in a timely manner according to KPIs.
• Conduct initial assessments and deliver evidence-based interventions.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings and ensure compliance with Trust policies.

Skills

Clinical judgement

Communication

Risk management

IT skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registration with professional body (e.g., NMC)

Tools

Clinical assessment tools

Care pathways

Job description

The post holder will be an integral part of a specialist community CAMHS team in the Bromley integrated Single Point of Access (iSPA), delivered in partnership with Bromley Y, a local Third Sector organisation. The integrated SPA manages all referrals for children and young people with mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties in Bromley.

The post holder will work within the team to provide efficient and effective delivery of the CAMHS iSPA Service. This includes ensuring high quality, safe and responsive interventions are provided to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, who are referred to the team and/or iSPA.

Responsibilities

• Responding to all referrals into the service, in a timely manner according to pre agreed KPIs.
• Respond to all queries, offer advice and consultation within the fast-paced, dynamic part of the team which is currently responding to a high level of demand. This role provides opportunities for learning about wider mental health issues and wider service pathways.
• Deliver initial assessments, workshops, short-term pieces of clinical work, training and consultation.
• Work with Bromley Y and other partnership agencies to ensure CYP mental health services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies.
• Assess and manage risk in children and young people on an ongoing basis.
• Communicate risks effectively in difficult, highly charged and emotional circumstances.
• Ensure practice remains within legal, ethical, and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from relevant professionals.
• Possess IT skills to effectively communicate in writing with colleagues, other professionals and families in accordance with trust policies (e.g. writing of comprehensive reports).
• Maintain live registration with appropriate professional body, e.g. NMC.
• Record supervision in case notes or supervision records to reflect on the supervision process.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Clinical

• To be an integral part of the delivery of the clinical team within the integrated iSPA, responding to urgent and priority referrals and calls from families and professionals.
• To work within the team to provide telephone assessment and consultation, advice and liaison with third party sector and stakeholders, risk management and care planning and decide on an appropriate course of action.
• To demonstrate good clinical judgement and skill, as many of the referrals are urgent, the ability to manage high levels of distress and expectation and demonstrate good interpersonal skills will be required.
• To demonstrate excellent IT skills, an ability to work with processes and systems, the ability to work under pressure, good mental health knowledge, excellent mental health assessment skills, and be able to demonstrate resilience and tenacity.
• Delivering initial and specialist assessments, utilising a range of theoretical knowledge, evidence-based short-term therapeutic interventions, and relevant assessment tools. Joining multi-disciplinary clinical meetings within the SPA team or CAMHS teams to determine outcomes and planning for future interventions.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, use Care Pathways to enable care planning, including CPA and conform to Trust case management protocols.
• Ensure referrals to the team are allocated or redirected and discharged according to Trust procedures.
• Provide service user reviews which are planned and expedited within appropriate timescales. Demonstrate time management and execution of tasks to meet CAMHS targets.
• Ensure participation in the review of complex cases.
• Provide specialist clinical advice to partnership agencies.
• Participate in quality initiatives and outcomes of service through clinical audit, Clinical Governance or Clinical Effectiveness projects as required.
• Hold a small caseload and deliver evidence-based interventions. A knowledge of theoretical frameworks (e.g., attachment, trauma, neuro-developmental, mood disorders, anxiety, eating disorders) is required.
• Keep abreast of current training and practice in all relevant areas.

This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Sep 2025