Senior Clinician CYP SPOA Pathway Lead

Transformationunitgm; Enfield; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Clinician to join their CAMHS Single Point of Access team. This role will involve direct clinical oversight, working with young people facing complex mental health challenges, and contributing to transformative service delivery. The ideal candidate will have substantial clinical experience and demonstrate effective management in a supportive, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of significant post-qualifying clinical experience.
• Experience in CAMHS clinical work.
• Experience in managing complex cases and teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage an active and complex caseload related to job plan needs.
• Provide senior clinical oversight to junior colleagues.
• Lead clinical roles for specified pathways within the team.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Resilience

Problem Solving

Education

Registered as a mental health practitioner

Professional qualifications in a relevant Discipline such as Nursing, Social Work, Family Therapy, Psychology, and Psychotherapy

Continuing professional development

Leadership and/or management qualifications

Job description

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bay Tree House Town Enfield Salary £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 29/06/2025 23:59

Band 8A

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered Senior Clinician to be part of the North London Foundation Trust CAMHs Tri borough Single Point of Access (SPOA) across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, services provided at the front door. The postholder will be based in the tri-borough SPOA services, and engaged either the pre-screening/triaging aspect of the referral process, or the Initial assessment fold, working to ensure that all cases, are allocated to clinicians, cases are been brought to MDT for discussions, and that there is seamless process followed in ensuring that cases are moved into the appropriate clinical pathways or discharged from the services. You will have oversight in ensuring the IA care plan letter, and discharge notification are sent to the YP and families, and all documentations completed. 1 of these posts will lead on the brief intervention fold, assessing and delivering short-term provision of care/therapy, and coordinating the allocation into the clinical pathways, or the discharging of YP following brief intervention.

We are looking to recruit clinicians who are enthusiastic, motivated, and who have interest in working with young people, their family and carers presenting with a range of complex mental health difficulties. The post holders will have a job plan balancing the needs of clinical management and clinical interventions.

Please note if the maximum number of applications is met this post will close early.

Main duties of the job

The postholders will offer supervision and appropriate level of senior clinical oversight for a range of bandings within the team. The post holder will support specialist ND triage advice where necessary, guidance, and support for CYP, their families and other professionals working with CYP. The role includes having a caseload providing therapeutic interventions with an opportunity to lead and develop new interventions at the front door, as well as deputy leadership and management functions as and when necessary, as part of the SPOA leadership team. The postholder will assist in implementing and reviewing systems, policies standards and procedures that contribute to the delivery of high-quality service within the frameworks agreed by the Trust and the Commissioners.

The service will have a centralized collation of outcome measures and scoring used to determine pathways in conjunction with shared decision making.

You will lead on trauma informed assessment and care, with effective signposting where indicated. You will have close ties to other health and social care providers and education services. The role includes having a clinical caseload providing expert therapeutic intervention, as well providing senior clinical support to team members.

Working for our organisation

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

Our Five-Year Strategy:

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To maintain an active and complex caseload as relevant to professional registration in linewith job plan as determinedwith SPOA Service Lead. Job plan willallow for balance of clinical / managerial work as required by the needs of theservice.

· To support the day-to-day clinical oversight of the SPOA Service, clinical pathways, coordinating the clinic-based service in conjunction with other senior colleagues and

· Support junior colleagues with their caseloads management to work effectively, efficiently and creating capacity to take on new cases.

· To take a lead clinical role across a specified pathway i.e., triage/ screening or Initial assessments or short-term brief intervention

· To support where necessary in all aspects of the service delivery, referral management, duty clinician, to ensure thatyoung people are triaged and screened into the service or signposted as appropriate,inconsiderationofriskandurgency.

· To support and supervise staff, and respond to queries.

· To assist in the development of CAMHS services within the locality and tri borough includin g workin g t o a n agree d model, developing clinical structure s , recruiting staff and operational organisation of the services including all HRmatters.

· To maintain an awareness of complex cases and projects for which allocated staff are responsible and ensure the Clinical Team Manager is appropriately informed regarding cases of particular risk or concern. This role does include carrying a caseload.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered as a mental health practitioner with professional qualifications in a relevant Discipline, eg Nursing, Social Work, Family Therapy, Psychology and Psychotherapy. Significant post-qualifying clinical experience obtained in a variety of settings for a minimum of 3 years.
• Clear record of ongoing continuing professional development
• • Experience/qualifications in leadership and/or management qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrates significant experience as a Care co-ordinator of complex cases
• Demonstrates significant experience in providing effective caseload management,
• Experience in CAMHS clinical work
• Experience in prioritising and managing the work of a team or others.
• Experience of motivating and engaging others in challenging situations to maintain progress towards goals.
• Significant supervisory experience with clear evidence of effective people management skills including clinical supervision, sickness management, performance, conduct issues
• Demonstrates a detailed understanding in the theory and practice of Recovery Principles
• Demonstrates a clear knowledge and understanding of the issues and Statutory processes involved in caring for vulnerable people.
• Demonstrates an understanding of budget management.
• Experience gained working across systems including, health social care and the voluntary sector.
• Previous experience gained in a clinical leadership or management role

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Able to articulate an advanced and detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and safeguarding, in order to lead and manage others
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills, both written and verbal particularly relating to sensitive and effective written communication with service users and carers
• Demonstrates the ability to work constructively with people across the organisation and with relevant external partners, engendering confidence in others
• Confident in presenting complex information to varied audiences
• Skills in the investigation and analysis of complicated issues and data
• IT literate with an ability to use a wide range of programmes e.g. RiO, E-rostering, Microsoft Office suite including PowerPoint as required.
• Able to deal effectively with multiple deadlines and competing priorities

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Able to demonstrate personal resilience in the face of change
• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Strong people management skills and ability to deliver personably
• Sufficient resilience to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales • Treats service
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
• Able to prioritise own workload
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Honest, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
• Demonstrates core values

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.
• A flexible and positive can do attitude

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.