Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0484
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Edgware Community Hospital (Hollyoak Clinic)
- Town
- Edgware
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
LD and Autism Key Worker CAMHS
Band 5
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/
Job overview
The post holder will work as a Key Worker within the Learning Disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service , based in Edgware Community Hospital (Holly Oak), however, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts' interests including travelling to appropriate meetings of that Borough as required. You will be working with children and young people aged 0-18. These include young people who have been diagnosed with Autistic spectrum disorders and, or, who have learning disabilities. It provides evidence based specialist mental health assessment and intervention, in order to meet crisis, acute and treatment needs.
The post will involve delivery of assessment and treatment to young people in crisis, who have the added sensory and neurodivergent issues that make the experience of hospital. The aim of the service is to work alongside Senior Practitioners to provide support to reduce the potential for the young person needing to become an inpatient. This role will include the planning and facilitating of a range of therapeutic individual/ group work, employ PBS plans as prescribed and ensure the professional reviews are in place to enhance the Community care package. The patients are young people with diverse needs and presentations.
Main duties of the job
- This is a Tier 3 Service that work collaboratively with the Tier 4 Service.
- To follow the referral process for patients attending sessions ensuring that appropriate security and risk procedures are adhered to.
- To ensure that a range of activities is available so that individual treatment programmes can be implemented.
- To ensure that treatment programmes and activities are carried out in line with PBS approaches and CETR reviews are taking place in a timely manner.
- To support the Day Service Lead in maintaining the timetable of activities and to ensure that changes are communicated to patients appropriately.
- To engage with young people that may present with Autistic and Neurodivergent presentations, working in keeping with the team approach for that individual.
- To liaise regarding potential patient attendance or involvement, as appropriate, with other disciplines and agencies in Health, Social Service, Education, the voluntary and private sectors. In particular to ensure links with local education providers are maintained and progressed.
- To ensure that relevant records, reports and treatment status and electronic notes are completed to departmental guidelines.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To engage with young people that may present with Autistic and Neurodivergent presentations, working in keeping with the team approach for that individual.
- To liaise regarding potential patient attendance or involvement, as appropriate, with other disciplines and agencies in Health, Social Service, Education, the voluntary and private sectors. In particular to ensure links with local education providers are maintained and progressed.
- To ensure that relevant records, reports and treatment status and electronic notes are completed to departmental guidelines.
- To receive and give feedback, to and from, relevant members of the multidisciplinary team, before and after sessions and to provide written reports where necessary.
Person specification
EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Minimum Band 5 level (or equivalent) professionally registered practitioner, such as Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD), Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), Mental Health Social Worker (SW), Occupational Therapist (OT), Speech & Language Therapist (SLT). OR Experienced senior assistant psychologists, therapeutic/community workers or SEN staff, with a professional qualification in health, social care or education to level NVQ / HNC level 3 (or equivalent) or the ability to complete a relevant qualification evidenced by educational history and professional development.
- Experience of direct work with children and young people, or adults, in the context of learning disabilities and/or autism who are in crisis, with associated health, education and care needs.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITY
Essential criteria
- The ability to work flexibly and responsively to provide support when children, young people, families/carers need it most, which may include early morning, evenings and weekends as required.
- Some knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance, government policy and research in relation to children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism and an ability to apply that knowledge in an operational setting.
- An awareness of the risks associated with neurodevelopmental differences and social, emotional and mental health needs, with the ability to use this knowledge to safeguard the children and young people in your care; to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons in your care, respond to and report any concerns about the welfare of a child promptly in line with local guidance on safeguarding children.
- The ability to provide structured support, deliver positive activities and ensure the achievement of agreed individual outcomes.
- Ability to work therapeutically within and contribute to multi-agency risk assessments for children and young people with complex needs, including risks associated with behaviours of concern and support for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
- Ability to support positive, planned risk-taking that promotes developmental growth and children and young people’s rights to community access.
- Knowledge of child development, autism, learning disabilities, attachment and trauma, and of personalised and coproduced care planning.
- Ability to creatively engage, communicate and consult with children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism and their families/carers about developing and improving their service.
- Ability and willingness to use reflective practice in supervision and actively engage in developmental opportunities to maximise your own professional competence.
COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Essential criteria
- Ability to adhere to equal opportunities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sinclair Jenkins
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087026850
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