About this role
Job summary
The Whole Family Service is a highly specialist CAMHS which works with families who might have a complex relationship with help. The service uses creative and flexible approaches to engage families whose multiple difficulties mean they might not be able to access a traditional clinic-based service. The service is co-located across local authority services to enable effective partnership working and facilitate coordination amongst professional networks.
The service is comprised of two teams, the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialist (WFT-P) and the Whole Family Team (WFT). The WFT-P is a highly specialist service offering psychological therapy to families during pregnancy and with babies, toddlers and children up to the age of 5 years. The WFT is based with Camden local authority social care teams such as safeguarding and family help (previously children's services), alternative education provision (e.g. SEMH school, PRUs), youth justice, early help and the adolescent prototype team. The teams offer both direct assessments, interventions and consultation to other professionals and comprise of Psychology, Systemic Family Therapy, Child Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, and Senior Practitioners.
Main duties of the job
The post holder would be expected to spend their time in the WFT supporting the team clinical delivery of a high standard by attending team referral meetings, providing supervision, and attending weekly clinical team and business meetings.
The post holder will be based between 5 Pancras Square, the local authority head office, and an allocated specialist Camden service as a link worker.
The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
You will provide consultation to external agencies such as GPs/schools/Local authorities.
The post holder will communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviours.
You will maintain a high standard of clinical records, producing and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved, liaising with the referrers where appropriate, including liaison with local services and participating in outreach meetings
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
1. The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance, planning and prioritising these
2. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
3. Work with team manager on intake and referral coordination
4. Provide consultation to external agencies as required such as GPs/schools/Local authorities
5. Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with their clinical care
6. Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests
7. 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 manager
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations Essential
Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level Registration with HCPC or relevant body as a Clinical Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist [HCPC], Mental Health Nurse [RMN], Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist [ACP], or Systemic Family Psychotherapist [AFSP, UKCP
Desirable
Additional trainings in CYP Psychological Therapies, e.g. CBT, CBT for ASD/LD or Systemic Additional trainings in: NVR, PBS, AMBIT, EMDR, TF-CBT, DDP, DBT, NET
Skills/ Abilities Essential
Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders Experience of assessment and treatment of the full range of presenting problems in the client population Some experience of clinical supervision Experience of providing consultation and supervision to professionals from other agencies High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
Desirable
Some experience of clinical management of staff Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement Experience of working to deliver service delivery targets Skills for assessing and communicating highly complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments Some experience of clinical management of staff
Experience/ Knowledge Essential
Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
Desirable
Knowledge and familiarity with NCL Provider Collaborative aims and ambitions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address St Pancras Square
5 Pancras Sq,
London
N1C 4AG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)