Lead Clinician - Band 7

NHS; Castleford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Lead Clinician Band 7 for its CAMHS team. The role involves providing clinical leadership, conducting mental health assessments for children, and offering supervision and support to develop team skills. This position offers flexibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact in young people's mental health care.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working in children's mental health settings.
• Knowledge of mental health assessments and care planning.
• Experience providing clinical supervision and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement innovative treatment approaches.
• Provide clinical leadership and supervision within the team.
• Conduct assessments and emergency interventions for young clients.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Negotiation

Education

Relevant professional qualification in nursing or mental health

Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy)

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Lead Clinician - Band 7

The closing date is 01 July 2025

Is CAMHS your passion? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

Hi, my name, is Karl Senior and I am the Team Manager for the WakefieldCAMHS Specialist Therapies Team!

We are keen to recruit an experienced clinician to lead our currentclinical work, alongside developing the clinical skills of the team.

We offer a multi-disciplinary approach to care and treatment in theprovision of assessments and interventions for Children and Young People,experiencing moderate to severe complex emotional, behavioural andpsychological issues resulting in mental health difficulties.

Ideally, candidates will have extensive experience working within thefield of children and young persons mental health, in a health care setting.They should be able to demonstrate core knowledge and skills in mental healthassessment, formulation, care planning and treatment.

It is desirable for candidates to already be trained in a governed evidence-basedtherapy such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy,Psychotherapy or Family Therapy.

We pride ourselves on offering flexible working patterns when this isneeded, for example to facilitate caring responsibilities. The service operatesMonday-Friday; 9am-5pm however successful applicants would be expected to havethe flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate serviceeffectiveness.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate, will work alongside theteam manager and other lead clinicians in the service, in the development andimplementation of new and innovative ways of delivering evidence-basedtreatments,

providing clinical leadership through the provisionof clinical supervision, caseload management supervision and teaching.

You will case hold within this role.

The team is based between Airedale Health Centre inCastleford and Drury Lane Health Centre in Wakefield. The post advertised is tocover Wakefield and the 5 towns. Being a car driver is essential due to thepotential distance required to travel when completing home/clinic-visits.

I would love to give the opportunity for further discussion surroundingthe role, so please do not hesitate to reach out to myself. Visits to the teamare welcomed and strongly encouraged!

Atthe time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UKVisas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forwardto receiving your application.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

Thisjob description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertakeother duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holderwhen necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highlyspecialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highestquality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments andintensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously andcollaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for otheragencies/professionals.

To provider supervisionand teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreedfor the team leader.

To promote safeguardingand the welfare of children and young people

For full Job Description please see attached documents.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of delivering training to others
• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
• Multidisciplinary team working
• Inter-agency liaison and consultation
• Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
• Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
• Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
• Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
• Experience of community settings

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
• Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
• Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
• A teaching and assessing qualification
• Membership of professional body
• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)

Special Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
• Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
• Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.

Personal Attributes

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Commitment to multi-agency approach/working
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative
• and assertive
• Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
• To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
• To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

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.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust