Job summary
We have 1.55 WTE fixed term sessions available within the CAMHS Therapies Team (CTT)and The Community CAMHS Schools Service. These jobs are suitable for part time working and may work well with other sessions across Islington CAMHS depending on candidate applications and service needs.
We are looking for proactive, creative and skilled colleagues to join a combination of our Schools and CTT, depending on interest and experience. The successful applicant(s) will be passionate about both clinic based and community working, promoting emotional well-being throughevidence based practice, accessible service provision and about improving health and wellbeing outcomes for some of the most vulnerable families in our borough. Some experience of working in a CAMHS service and school settings is desirable.
We are committed to providing a service that is representative of our local community and welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are also a borough that values a trauma informed approach to our work and supporting our staff.
Please see our CAMHS Mission Statement attached to this vacancy.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
The Borough
Islington is a wonderfully diverse borough. Despite its relatively small size it is densely populated with a resident child population of 40,000, which is about 20% of the total population. The borough is a varied community with extremes of affluence and poverty. There is a broad cultural mix from a range of ethnic minority groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post will involve delivering evidence-based interventions within the CAMHS Therapies Team and the Schools Team.
The CAMHS Therapies Team provides mental health assessment and treatment to children & young people, and their families, where there is a significant concern about their emotional or psychological well-being. These may be diagnosable mental health conditions that are often severe and enduring. The team offers evidence based treatments including CBT, Child Psychotherapy, IPT-A and Family Therapy. It is a vibrant multi-disciplinary team, with regular team and case discussion meetings, individual and group supervision spaces with senior clinicians, and opportunities for joint working.
Every school in Islington has a CAMHS clinician attending weekly or fortnightly.
In the Schools Team, the post holder will be joining a well-established integrated multidisciplinary mental health team. Islington has a CAMHS clinician attached to all Islington's primary and secondary schools. The team offers assessment and treatment to young people, their parents and carers, as well as indirect work such as support, consultation and training to education colleagues. We have been working closely with our education and Local Authority partners for over 20 years and are proud to provide a highly valued, comprehensive offer to local schools. The Schools Team is a supportive and friendly working environment offering fortnightly multidisciplinary meetings, regular supervision, direct support from senior clinicians and termly CPD opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post will involve delivering evidence-based interventions within the CAMHS Therapies Team and the Schools Team.
The CAMHS Therapies Team provides mental health assessment and treatment to children & young people, and their families, where there is a significant concern about their emotional or psychological well-being. These may be diagnosable mental health conditions that are often severe and enduring. The team offers evidence based treatments including CBT, Child Psychotherapy, IPT-A and Family Therapy. It is a vibrant multi-disciplinary team, with regular team and case discussion meetings, individual and group supervision spaces with senior clinicians, and opportunities for joint working.
Every school in Islington has a CAMHS clinician attending weekly or fortnightly.
In the Schools Team, the post holder will be joining a well-established integrated multidisciplinary mental health team. Islington has a CAMHS clinician attached to all Islington's primary and secondary schools. The team offers assessment and treatment to young people, their parents and carers, as well as indirect work such as support, consultation and training to education colleagues. We have been working closely with our education and Local Authority partners for over 20 years and are proud to provide a highly valued, comprehensive offer to local schools. The Schools Team is a supportive and friendly working environment offering fortnightly multidisciplinary meetings, regular supervision, direct support from senior clinicians and termly CPD opportunities.
Person Specification
education/qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, CBT Therapy, counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP/BABCP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills & Abilities in generic and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of children up to 18 years of age and their families.
- Ability to work autonomously to engage hard to reach families providing an assessment and treatment service within community settings.
- Skills in the assessment of clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.
- Skills in the flexible use of evidence-based intervention and management of children/young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties, their families and carers
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in effectively managing a clinical caseload, completing outcomes measures routinely, updating clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements
- Skills in screening for, assessing and working with children, young people and families with neurodiversity (ADHD and ASC)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive therapeutic service to young people and families in the community
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
- Knowledge of or training in trauma-informed approaches with children and young people.
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment
- Experience of working clinically in community settings e.g. with children's centres and schools to meet the mental health needs of CYP
Person Specification
education/qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, CBT Therapy, counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP/BABCP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills & Abilities in generic and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of children up to 18 years of age and their families.
- Ability to work autonomously to engage hard to reach families providing an assessment and treatment service within community settings.
- Skills in the assessment of clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.
- Skills in the flexible use of evidence-based intervention and management of children/young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties, their families and carers
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in effectively managing a clinical caseload, completing outcomes measures routinely, updating clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements
- Skills in screening for, assessing and working with children, young people and families with neurodiversity (ADHD and ASC)
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive therapeutic service to young people and families in the community
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
- Knowledge of or training in trauma-informed approaches with children and young people.
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment
- Experience of working clinically in community settings e.g. with children's centres and schools to meet the mental health needs of CYP
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
