Job Description

Do you have the ambition and drive to join the team taking CAMHS Youth Justice Service forward in Haringey and Enfield, providing effective clinical interventions that produce positive outcomes for young people, families and communities?



We are seeking a qualified CAMHS Clinician to join our multidisciplinary Team. They will be based in Enfield YJS and Wood Green Custody Suite.



A recognized clinical qualification and registration, and relevant experience working with vulnerable adolescents, children and their families is essential.



As part of a small, supportive, dedicated YJS CAMHS team you will receive peer support, clinical supervision and connect to the wider generic CAMHS team. The team collaborate closely with the service and clinical leads to lead developments and improvement to the YJS mental health offer.



You will need to be a resilient and experienced clinician who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of your practice. You'll oversee a small case load of complex cases, planning intervention and support in a timely manner and, always, making sure that children and young people's voices are heard, positively influence your practice, and recorded consistently. You will also provide clinical consultation for cases open to the service.



Your work will contribute to the provision of the multi-disciplinary youth justice service in order to meet the strategic objectives of the Youth Justice Board.



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.



Key aims of the CYPMHS - YJS work are



Carrying out detailed assessments that assess and identify risk, trauma and protective factors.

Writing reports for court and referral panels

Planning and delivering interventions

Challenging and changing the ideas and perceptions of offenders

Rehabilitating young people who have offended.

Reducing reoffending



The post holder will provide a comprehensive mental health service to children and their families in the Youth Justice Service (YJS) offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.



They 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 the team's policies and procedures.



L iaison 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 (which can include, custody suites, youth courts, family homes, schools) subject to the needs of the young person. They will also lead on the Trauma-informed strategy across the service.



The post holder will work closely with the CYPMHS Liaison & Diversion practitioner within the YJS, contributing to mental health care across the justice services offering assessment and clinical intervention one day per week to young people who have had mental health needs identified when presenting in police custody, but have not yet proceeded to receive a service from the YJS.