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About Barnet Council
Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Our excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces and diverse communities all help make it a great place to live and work. As a council we want to build on these strengths as we move into the future. We are growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing our borough and we are committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better. As an organisation, our staff are committed to Our Values: Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative – which drive everything we do.
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two highly experienced clinicians to join the BICS Management Team in Clinical Manager roles. BICS (Barnet’s Integrated Clinical Service) is a multidisciplinary mental health service supporting children, young people and their families with mild to moderate mental health difficulties across the borough in education, community and children’s social care settings. BICS sits within Barnet’s Family Services, working closely with our multi-agency colleagues. We are looking to recruit two Clinical Managers to jointly lead our dynamic MDT of clinicians linked to the West Hub’s Child and Family Early Help team. One role will focus on leading on the Mental Health Support Team (MSHT) elements of the MDT as we expand our MHST provision, with the other focussed on supporting our mixed modality practitioners, including CWPs (Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioners), Psychologists, Systemic Family Therapists Integrative Psychotherapists, Creative Therapists and CBT Therapists. Working as part of our wider BICS management team across all Child and Family Early Help Hubs, Children’s Social Care and Early Years Parenting Hub teams.
Are you already an experienced manager and supervisor, or if you have management and/or supervisory experience and are looking for an opportunity to stretch yourself and develop additional skills, this could be the role for you.
You will have a proven track record within child and adolescent mental health; sound knowledge and experience of cognitive behavioural therapies/systemic psychotherapies and/or other evidence-based therapies; sound knowledge of the functions of an MHST; and the experience and ability to provide high quality clinical supervision and line management to the team. Working in partnership with key stakeholders and partners, you will bring your creativity, flexibility, and enthusiasm to jointly lead on the MHST provision across the borough, wider MDT, service development, evaluation, and improvement to ensure that children and young people in Barnet benefit from integrated, responsive, and accessible mental health and wellbeing services. You will have the continued support of the wider BICS management team as you step into this role, as well as the potential opportunity to apply and enrol through UCL on their Leadership in CYP mental health services post graduate certificate which begins in the January 2027 (application can be found on the UCL website).
Children and Young People's Psychological Trainings: Leadership in CYP Mental Health Services PG Cert | Prospective Students Graduate - UCL – University College London
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About you
Are you already an experienced manager and supervisor, or if you have management and/or supervisory experience and are looking for an opportunity to stretch yourself and develop additional skills, this could be the role for you.
You will have a proven track record within child and adolescent mental health; sound knowledge and experience of cognitive behavioural therapies/systemic psychotherapies and/or other evidence-based therapies; sound knowledge of the functions of an MHST; and the experience and ability to provide high quality clinical supervision and line management to the team. Working in partnership with key stakeholders and partners, you will bring your creativity, flexibility, and enthusiasm to jointly lead on the MHST provision across the borough, wider MDT, service development, evaluation, and improvement to ensure that children and young people in Barnet benefit from integrated, responsive, and accessible mental health and wellbeing services. You will have the continued support of the wider BICS management team as you step into this role, as well as the potential opportunity to apply and enrol through UCL on their Leadership in CYP mental health services post graduate certificate which begins in the January 2027 (application can be found on the UCL website).
Children and Young People's Psychological Trainings: Leadership in CYP Mental Health Services PG Cert | Prospective Students Graduate - UCL – University College London
We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision from the Assistant Head of Service and peer support from Clinical Managers and other senior practitioners within BICS. We offer excellent specialist CPD and training opportunities and have established strong working relationships with colleagues across Barnet’s Family Service. In addition, you will have ample opportunities to work with partner agencies such as Barnet’s NHS Specialist CAMHS, schools and other community and voluntary services. We also have links with the London Clinical Psychology and Systemic Training Schemes.
What we offer
- 31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme , which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
- Work-life balance options may include hybrid working, flexitime, job share, home working, part-time
- A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers, supermarkets, energy suppliers and more
- Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee well- being training programs including confidential employee assistance
How to apply
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‘Apply’ to commence the online application form. If you would like any further information about the role before applying, please contact Dr Sarah Leighter, Assistant Head of Service, BICS.
[email protected] / 07548 706 929
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