Senior Clinical Practitioner

North East London NHS; Barking; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional mental health services for children and adolescents. This role offers the opportunity to lead clinical initiatives, supervise junior clinicians, and deliver evidence-based treatments. With a strong commitment to staff development and a supportive work culture, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the mental well-being of young individuals. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact in a respected institution, recognized for its diversity and commitment to employee welfare. If you are passionate about mental health and want to work in a collaborative environment, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Support

Professional Development Opportunities

Supportive Networks for Diversity

High Cost Area Supplement

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner fully registered.
• Extensive experience working with children and adolescents with mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment within CAMHS.
• Ensure high quality, evidence-based service for all service users.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Therapeutic Interventions

Assessment and Treatment

Communication Skills

Quality Improvement Projects

Education

Post-graduate qualification in psychological practice

Graduate qualified healthcare professional

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Electronic Diary Systems

Job description

HoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)Job ref395-BD027-25EmployerNELFT NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteChild & Family Consultation ServiceTownBarkingSalary£53,755 - £60,504 Plus HCAS per annumSalary periodYearlyClosing13/04/2025 23:59

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NHS AfC: Band 8a

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, inthis video

Job overview

The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. nurse, clinical psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, UKCP, ACP) or a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. mental health/ Learning disability nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. NMC, Social Work England). Plus an additional post-graduate qualification in either psychological therapies (e.g. CYP IAPT post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy) or other post-graduate qualification relevant to CAMHS and mental health.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

We are kind.

We are respectful.

We work together with our communities.

strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in B&D Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), Front Door Team. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the CAMHS team. The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider education, mental health, wellbeing and learning disability support services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the CAMHS team.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist behavioural and psychological treatments. They will be responsible for all specialist assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CAMHS practice.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

Probationary Period

High Cost Area Supplement - London).

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist service for children and adolescents with mental health problems, their carers/parents and families

· To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families

·To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.

· To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on cases to other multi- disciplinary staff within B&D CAMHS, including junior medical staff where appropriate to do so.

·To contribute to quality improvement project, audit and research.

· To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures adapted for the client group

· To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework B&D CAMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.

· The post-holder will provide clinical leadership within the sphere of their professional expertise.

· To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.

· To use an expert clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multi- disciplinary team, children, adolescents and their families in order to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.

· To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers and clinical leads within the Trust

· To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working. To present cases to network meetings with professional members of other agencies.

Person specification

Qualifications

Post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. clinical/counselling psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified healthcare professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist

Knowledge

Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access Electronic diary, e-mail and office management systems

Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.

Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies

Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice

Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Skills

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients

ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation

Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information

Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.

Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.

Ability to undertake quality improvement projects and audits

Experience

Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs

Extensive experience of working with difficult, challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.

Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children

Experience of carrying out generic and specialist assessment with other colleagues in the multi -disciplinary team

Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter -agency meetings

Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.

A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.

Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected] .

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration. . If you require any additional support during the application process please conta [email protected]ct . We are happy to make reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment journey.