We are recruiting a Senior CAMHS Clinician who is passionate about integrated multi-agency working, sharing psychological knowledge and skills with practitioners from a range of backgrounds supporting families from a trauma informed, motivational practice model.
The post-holder will be a proactive, highly skilled individual who is committed to improving health and wellbeing outcomes for CYP with some of the most vulnerable families in the borough.
Islington CAMHS has a well-established history of working collaboratively with Islington Early Help including the Bright Futures Service. This post is connected to a CAMHS in LBI team overseen by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager.
Bright Futures is part of LBI Early Help offer for families of five- to 19-year-olds. The service comprises a targeted family support case holding offer and an outreach support offer working with families alongside universal services. The Bright Futures service is delivered by outreach workers, family and senior practitioners, deputy and team managers. There are three Bright Futures locality teams in the North, Central and South of the borough.
The clinical offer to Bright Futures incorporates CAMHS and Adult Mental Health input via the Psychologically Informed Consultation & Training (PICT) team. The post-holder will therefore work closely with PICT to provide a ‘whole family’ mental health offer. This innovative way of working has gained a lot of positive recognition within the borough.
- Provide responsive and accessible specialist CAMHS clinical input through a range of clinical activities integrated with local authority workforce to achieve good social, emotional and mental health outcomes for CYP 5-19 (25 SEND) years and their families. Integrated service delivery as part of multi-agency ‘team around the worker’. to improve educational attendance
- Provide an interface between the CAMHS service, allocated social worker and mental health services.
- Provide opportunities for local authority practitioners to reflect on and acknowledge the impact of the work, to support staff well-being.
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Heather Tovey Job title: CAMHS Clinical Service Manager Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07825 945817
