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North London NHS Foundation Trust

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North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) was created on 1 November 2024. We employ approximately 6,000 staff who serve a diverse population over five the London Boroughs with a combined population of 1.8 million people.

We are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many of our practice areas judged to be ‘Outstanding’.

Our Trust provides high-quality mental health services within hospital and community settings across Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington. Our wide range of services include specialist services such as those for children and young people, prison and forensic services, eating disorders services and drug and alcohol recovery.

We employ a diverse workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive anchor employer.

We work closely with our local communities to recruit from different groups, welcoming applications from people who reflect the richness of our communities and populations we serve.

We are proud to support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces. We also provide apprenticeship and care leaver employment opportunities.

We welcome applications from all groups including Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, disabled people (whether their disability is visible or not) and people who are LGBTQ+. We have several active staff networks including Disability, LGBTQ+, Race Equality and Cultural Heritage (REACH), Women’s staff networks and many more to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

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Address: Trust Headquarters St Pancras Hospital; 4 St Pancras Way; London; NW1 0PE
Contact Number: 020 3317 3500

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Cyf: 455-BEH-0074 ID y swydd wag: 7125347

CAMHS Practitioner

Closed for applications on: 7-Mai-2025 00:01

Statws y swydd wag: Closed

Closed for applications on: 7-Mai-2025 00:01

Lleoliad

Gwefan: Barnet CAMHS, Holly Oak
Cyfeiriad: Edgware Commuity Hospital
Tref: Barnet
Cod post: HA8 0AD
Major / Minor Region: Llundain

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Contract

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Cyflog

Cyflog: £44,485 - £52,521 Per Annum including Outer London HCAS
Cyfnod cyflog: Yn flynyddol
Gradd: (Band 6)

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Prif leoliad: Nursing

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical:

To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,

family members and others involved in the client’s care.

To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual

framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.

To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning

historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems / challenging

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk

To act as care coordinator, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures

To take part in the duty rota for emergency assessments as agreed with the team

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Qualifications/ Registrations

Meini prawf hanfodol

Qualification in a core mental health profession: • Nursing (RMN, RGN or RSCN) with additional therapeutic qualifications • Clinical or Counselling Psychology (eligible for chartered status) • Systemic Family Psychotherapy • Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (eligible for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists) • Social Worker with additional therapeutic qualifications e.g. systemic family therapy or CYP IAPT trainings • First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with additional short course certificate level in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs e.g. CBT, family therapy or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. Current professional registration as applicable: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or BABCP

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Training in one of the main therapeutic modalities. Relevant training on safeguarding and child protection.

Skills/ Abilities

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Evidence of well-developed clinical skills. Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown.Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS. Understanding of NICE Guidelines for mental health disorders Knowledge of CYP-IAPT and rationale for ROMs Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies. Good computer skills and knowledge of patient management systems. Accurate record keeping. Evidence of continuing professional development.

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Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups. Teaching skills in clinical settings.

Experience/ Knowledge

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Previous experience of working with young people in a mental health setting. Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years.full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of well-developed clinical skills. Working knowledge and competence in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown. Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment.
Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS. Understanding of NICE Guidelines for mental health disorders Knowledge of CYP-IAPT and rationale for ROMs Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies. Good computer skills and knowledge of patient management systems. Accurate record keeping. Evidence of continuing professional development.

Meini prawf dymunol

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of supervision of junior staff with independent caseloads.
Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience in setting up and facilitating groups. Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups. Teaching skills in clinical settings

Personal Qualities

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A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. Commitment to equal opportunities. Self-motivated, assertive and flexible.