Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Mental Health Clinician: Psychotherapy, psychology, social work, AHPs, nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0449
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's (however main work base: Thomas Hardy House, 41B Palace Gardens Shopping Centre, Enfield EN2 6SN.
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS YJS Highly Specialist Clinician
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
Do you have the ambition and drive to join the team taking CAMHS Youth Justice Service forward in Haringey and Enfield, providing effective clinical interventions that produce positive outcomes for young people, families and communities?
We are seeking a qualified CAMHS Clinician to join our multidisciplinary Team. They will be based in Enfield YJS and Wood Green Custody Suite.
A recognized clinical qualification and registration, and relevant experience working with vulnerable adolescents, children and their families is essential.
As part of a small, supportive, dedicated YJS CAMHS team you will receive peer support, clinical supervision and connect to the wider generic CAMHS team. The team collaborate closely with the service and clinical leads to lead developments and improvement to the YJS mental health offer.
Main duties of the job
You will need to be a resilient and experienced clinician who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of your practice. You’ll oversee a small case load of complex cases, planning intervention and support in a timely manner and, always, making sure that children and young people’s voices are heard, positively influence your practice, and recorded consistently. You will also provide clinical consultation for cases open to the service.
Your work will contribute to the provision of the multi-disciplinary youth justice service in order to meet the strategic objectives of the Youth Justice Board.
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:
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key aims of the CYPMHS – YJS work are
- Carrying out detailed assessments that assess and identify risk, trauma and protective factors.
- Writing reports for court and referral panels
- Planning and delivering interventions
- Challenging and changing the ideas and perceptions of offenders
- Rehabilitating young people who have offended.
- Reducing reoffending
The post holder will provide a comprehensive mental health service to children and their families in the Youth Justice Service (YJS) offering mental health assessment, therapeutic intervention, and consultation.
They will provide highly specialist mental health assessment and therapy as well as undertaking supervision and consultation to non-clinicians’ colleagues and to other non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Liaison with professionals across health, social care, education and youth justice services, and any other relevant community partners is essential. The postholder will be expected to work in highly flexible ways and on an outreach basis in community environments (which can include, custody suites, youth courts, family homes, schools) subject to the needs of the young person. They will also lead on the Trauma-informed strategy across the service.
The post holder will work closely with the CYPMHS Liaison & Diversion practitioner within the YJS, contributing to mental health care across the justice services offering assessment and clinical intervention one day per week to young people who have had mental health needs identified when presenting in police custody, but have not yet proceeded to receive a service from the YJS.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- At least one of the following professional registrations & qualifications: Nursing: • Registered Mental Health Nurse (Part 3 or Part 13 of NMC register); or Allied Health Professional: • Registered AHP with recognised national registered body; or Social Work: • Registered Social Worker with HCPC/Social Work England; or Practitioner Psychologist: • Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist; or Psychologist: • Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS; or Family and Systemic Psychotherapy: • MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and professional registration with the UKCP; or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: • Professional Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy or equivalent accredited training leading to Full Membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. Membership of the Professional Standards Association, with registration as a practitioner Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Desirable criteria
- Supervision / mentorship qualification Evidence of ongoing education / courses relevant to Forensic and Liaison Psychiatry.
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Confident in working with adolescents and their families.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of bio-psycho- social assessment
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Ability to positively engage and offer intervention to young people and their families in community settings.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, including those in partner agencies
- Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing situations, seeking support when required
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- IT skills, using Microsoft Office; Adobe Acrobat; and Electronic clinical records systems / applications
- The ability to communicate complex information in simple ways to children and young people in highly stressful environments
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to offer supervision to trainees and junior staff
- Ability to carry out consultations to other professionals and design/ deliver training around mental health topics to professionals.
- Ability to carry out audit, Q.I projects and support adjusting service based on the outcomes of Q.I
Experience/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing evidence-based interventions for CYP mental health
- Experience of work in multidisciplinary team and multi- agency working
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of Trauma Informed Care.
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting
- Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Understanding and experience of using evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience in enabling service user participation
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families within the criminal justice system.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision
- Physical capabilities of accessing a variety of buildings, which may not have disabled access.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to work autonomously in a pressure environment, be pro-active and resilient to offer timely support and intervention to young people under Youth Justice System
Other
Essential criteria
- To be able to travel between the Trust and social care sites
- To be able to sustain high levels of concentration for periods of time
- To have and build emotional resilience, seeking support where necessary
- To be able to “ think outside the box” and offer creative ways to engage young people and families
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Janis Griffiths
- Job title
- Integrated Services Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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