Job summary
The CYAF Directorate seeks to appoint an experienced clinician to a 3 day per week permanent post in First Step, an innovative and creative service which provides emotional and mental health screening and assessment, brief and longer term interventions for all children and young people in the care of the London Borough of Haringey. We are seeking to appoint a colleague qualified in one of the core CAMHS professions with additional experience in working with looked after children and young people and their professional networks.
The postholder will be part of a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team with good links to colleagues in social services, health and education, which provides child-centred multi-agency interventions to help create an emotionally friendly care system for babies, children and young people. The team also provides training, family rehabilitation work and social work consultation. The work is complex and challenging and there are robust support structures in place, with joint working, regular supervision and a monthly consultation for the team as integral to the service model.
The team's regular base is at Bounds Green Health Centre, with good transport links and free parking, and currently works in a hybrid way with regular in-person team meetings. The team has set up and implemented an exciting and innovative service model and is at the cutting edge of developments in this field.
Main duties of the job
Experience of therapeutic work with children and young people in care and a relevant professional qualification are essential. Experience of infant observation and early years / work with teenagers, or experience in consultation and multi-agency working, or in neurodevelopmental assessment are desirable.
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
About us
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
With 500 staff across a number of sites, we are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to thepromotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health.
For more information, please access the following link: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualification/Training/Education
Essential
- Qualified in one of the core CAMHS professions (systemic psychotherapy, child psychotherapy, clinical, counselling or educational psychology, social work, nursing)
- Experience of working with Looked After Children requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- Experience of communicating about complex clinical matters verbally and in writing with other agencies or referrers within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Experience of working with child protection cases
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- An ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to others, including colleagues, other professionals, family members and children and young people themselves.
- Knowledge and understanding of legal issues and statutory guidance relating to looked after children, safeguarding children, integrated working practices.
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within looked after children and community CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development.
Person Specification
Qualification/Training/Education
Essential
- Qualified in one of the core CAMHS professions (systemic psychotherapy, child psychotherapy, clinical, counselling or educational psychology, social work, nursing)
- Experience of working with Looked After Children requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- Experience of communicating about complex clinical matters verbally and in writing with other agencies or referrers within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Experience of working with child protection cases
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- An ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to others, including colleagues, other professionals, family members and children and young people themselves.
- Knowledge and understanding of legal issues and statutory guidance relating to looked after children, safeguarding children, integrated working practices.
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within looked after children and community CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development.
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).
