An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as a CAMHS practitioner. This role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high-quality mental health care to support young people with neurodevelopment disorders and their families. The post holder would be expected to work as a care coordinator for children with learning disabilities and children waiting for ADHD assessment.
The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people, and their families referred to the service.
Barnet CAMHS uses the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people, and families. The Framework is needs-led and is defined by the children, young people, and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision-making. The post predominantly sits within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs-based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role.
The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and will work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.
You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post, and the expectation of time management is that the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.
You will offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. You will also clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise, or manage junior members and trainees of the team.
The post holder will utilize research skills for QI and make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care pathways.
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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organization by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
Why NLFT?
1. We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviors and managers' program and many more opportunities.
2. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
3. NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.
4. Excellent internal staff network.
The Postholder Will Be Aligned With Our Values:
1. We Are Kind.
2. We Are Respectful.
3. We Work Together.
4. We Keep Things Simple.
5. We Empower.
6. 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 from your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls 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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Daniel Keith
Job title: Clinical Lead for Barnet CAMHS care coordinators
Email address: d.keith@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0208 702 4500
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