Job summary

The Clinical Intake Team services as an internal Single Point of Access, with the aim of supporting seamless referral pathways, ensuring that CYP and families are directed to the right type of support at the right time. The postholder will work alongside other colleagues in ensuring that all referrals are screened and where necessary decide when further information from the CYP/Family, referrer or other professionals is needed. The postholder will become familiar with various CAMHS clinicians that are linked in with primary and secondary schools and work alongside other Highly Specialist Clinicians, Specialist Clinicians and Practitioners within the Camden CAMHS services.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to a group of service users, conscious of their changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity, working collaboratively, with other clinicians and stakeholders. The post holder will hold a caseload of highly complex service users.

You will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of outcome focused, evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care.

The post holder will contribute to the quality, safety and continuous improvement of services provided to service users and their families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent way with internal and external partners.

You will act as a positive role model and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.

You will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to.

Main duties of the post

1. Clinical duties, leadership, and supervision

2. The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance

3. Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners

4. Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example to GPs/Schools/Local Authorities

5. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities.

6. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team lead/manager

7. To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient's psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical differences and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy

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

About us

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:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

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.