Job overview

·       Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing psychological therapy pathways appropriate to adolescents, and model-driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.

 ·       Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are in place for the psychology staff within the SAFE team.

 ·       Support supervision structures across Enfield CAMHS for psychology staff

 ·       Work in close collaboration with the CAMHS Psychology Discipline Lead in relation to matters related to psychology offer across Enfield CAMHS.

 ·       Deputise for the CAMHS Psychology discipline lead in their absence.

 ·       Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough CAMHS service, in collaboration and under the supervision of the Head of Psychological Therapies.

Main duties of the job

1.     To provide specialist assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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.

2.     To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person, and their family’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3.     To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological therapies interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

4.     To deliver evidence-based interventions, utilising short-term and goal-oriented approaches to improve service flow and accessibility, alongside longer-term interventions for children, adolescents, and their families with more complex needs, in alignment with the requirements of an NHS CAMHS service.

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.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

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.