Senior Practitioner

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in mental health is seeking a Senior Practitioner to support children with learning disabilities and autism. This role involves direct intervention and collaboration with various teams to prevent avoidable mental health crises and improve community access for young individuals. The position emphasizes teamwork, flexibility, and high-quality communication ensuring the best outcomes for children and their families.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Generous Annual Leave Allowance

NHS Discounts

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with learning disabilities.
• Ability to ensure high standards of case recording.
• Must work flexibly according to children and families' needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism.
• Coordinate with teams across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.
• Attend and contribute to relevant meetings and panels.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Flexibility

Education

Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) registered

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registered

Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or UKCP qualification

Job description

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Posted:

18.06.2025

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02.08.2025

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Job overview

· Job Summary

You will be a Senior Practitioner within the Learning Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service for Barnet Enfield and Haringey: providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or presenting with behaviours of concern.

The LD/ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. The aim is to keep children, young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort, to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.

You will be liaising and coordinating with a range of teams and organisations across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, including CAMHS providers, social care teams, Tier 4 providers, schools, and other community health providers.

The service is NCL wide but has two teams working across two localities:

1) Camden and Islington

2) Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

· To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.

· To attend, contribute to, and update on, cases at the local Admission Avoidance Dynamic Support Register (DSR) meetings.

· To establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including partners and parents to promote joint working and their involvement in the service.

· Involvement in the ongoing development of the service, including making suggestions for improvements and working to implement changes to the service as agreed with commissioners.

· To attend and provide information to the relevant panels and boards.

· To undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or UKCP.
• To support the service to deliver intensive time limited intervention ‘packages’ which achieve positive change for children and families based on shared objectives, which are regularly reviewed by the Team Around the Child.
• Experience of working with children/young people with learning disabilities and/or who are Autistic.
• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.
• Ability to work alone with complex cohort of children/young people and families
• To ensure high standards of case recording using the relevant information systems in order to capture all necessary inputs, outputs, and outcomes for young people and their families and carers.
• •To work flexibly to suit the needs of children and young people with complex needs and their families/carers; this may include early starts, late finishes, as required.