Job Description

Do you have the vision and drive to help grow our new Haringey Looked After Children CAMHS service?



We are looking for a creative and skilled CAMHS Clinician to support the Clinical lead in developing and implementing a new embedded service in partnership with LB Haringey's LAC team.



The ideal candidate will have CAMHS experience, including knowledge and experience of services embedded in social care settings and/or Looked After Children's services.



Apart from offering a chance to work in an interesting and rewarding clinical area, the post offers the rare opportunity to join a service from it's outset,and will offer a motivated clinician a chance to learn about and influence service development and gain experience building partnerships within the local authority.



Your primary place of work will be at the local authority building in Wood Green (Haringey Council, 48 Station Road, Wood Green, N22 7TR), with requirement to meet carers and young people in the community where clinically indicated. You will also need to attend the Trust base at St. Ann's and other CAMHS sites when required.



Working in partnership with the Clinical Team Lead and our LB Haringey partners, you will :



support the Clinical Team lead as they build the clinical model for the service

help ensure the voices of the children and young people the service cares for, and their carers, are central to the approach and clinical practice

facilitate consultation to professionals, carers and young people

deliver mental health assessment and intervention to young people, carers and families

support any audit and evaluation of the model to help us refine and improve the offer and meet the KPIs set out by the local authority



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



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff network



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.



The post holder will support the development and provision of the newly commissioned Haringey LAC CAMHS Team.



The postholder will support the Team Clinical Lead in developing, implementing and evaluating the service provision.



You will undertake clinical work offering a comprehensive mental health service to children and their families the Haringey service cares for offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.



You will provide highly specialist mental health assessment and therapy as well as undertaking supervision and consultation to non-clinicians' colleagues and to other non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of CYPMHS and LB Haringey policies and procedures.



There is requirement to report patient safety and safeguarding incidents, and to contribute to investigation of complaints and clinical incidents.



Liaison with professionals across health, social care, education and youth justice services, and any other relevant community partners is essential. The postholder will be expected to work in highly flexible ways and on an outreach basis in community environments subject to the needs of the young person.