This exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified clinical psychologist, CBT therapist or CAMHS clinician with post graduate CBT qualifications to join our dynamic and supportive Wellbeing Team within Camden CAMHS.
You will provide training, supervision, and leadership to band 4-6 wellbeing practitioners and will support the team manager with service development. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of CBT practitioners in training and the wellbeing pathway.
The Wellbeing Team supports with intake, provides individual and group CBT and parenting interventions to children, young people, and families with mild to moderate mental health and behavioural difficulties within Camden.
The Wellbeing Team work closely with North and South Camden Community Teams who support Camden young people’s (0-18) with evidence-based therapeutic interventions, from assessment to treatment. These multi-disciplinary teams are staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including psychologists, child psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, nurses and family therapists. CAMHS work closely with Schools, GP’s, Social Care and Third Sector organisations.
We have a strong focus on the wellbeing, supervision, and development of our staff. We will accept flexible working and secondments. Must be able to work on Wednesday.
1. Clinical duties, supervision and leadership
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 such as [provide examples]
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
8. Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with the patient/service user to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
