Clinical Lead YJS and Complex Pathway
We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
At NELFT, we are dedicated to continuously improving CAMHS provision across Barking & Dagenham in collaboration with our commissioners, partner agencies and co production with our young people and their carers. We’re looking for an experienced professional clinical practitioner registered with the appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC), with proven CAMHS experience and a passion for supporting others and being a team player.
If you are ready to inspire, innovate, and work collaboratively in a dedicated team and in a progressive environment, we encourage you to apply.
Full details of the application process, job description, and additional guidance are attached. In your application, please demonstrate how your skills, and experience position you to excel in this vital role.
The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership into the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway Lead in B&D CAMHS Service. The post holder will lead operations for the B&D Youth Justice Service and Complex Pathway in the B&D CAMHS team, collaborating closely with the Senior B&D CAMHS Management Team.Provide managerial and clinical leadership while contributing to service development, referral management, and fostering interagency collaboration.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected undertake highly specialist assessments in order to contribute to the clinical leadership and oversight for mental health assessments and interventions within the YJS context and Complex Pathway process and to formulate areas of strengths and needs based on good practice and evidence.Conduct thorough assessments to identify mental health needs and formulate appropriate treatment plans.
Provide operational and clinical leadership to the YJS and Complex pathway for children/YP in B&D CAMHS Service
Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents referred to YJS and Complex pathway and to provide this service also to their carers/parents and families.
Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessments and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessments and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred onto the Complex pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level.
Support and deputise other pathways and pathway leads in the B&D CAMHS Service.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- l To lead and develop the role/service of the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway within the CAMHS Service by identifying service needs, developing the pathways in line with best practice and developing innovative solutions to meet these needs.
- To advise NELFT colleagues and other relevant services on areas of emerging clinical practice, risk assessment and how these might be incorporated into current team activity.
- Attending relevant meetings to provide a resource on clinical health psychological factors for other team members, and through consultation and advice, lead the psychological dimension of the pathway.
- Lead on the delivery of specialist psychological assessment, interventions, treatment, advice and support for service users (and families/carers) referred within the care pathway.
- To take a lead role in aspects of the clinical and professional development supporting the psychology team that deliver neurodevelopmental clinical services
- To take a lead in developing the ethos of evidence-based practice within the community of referrers
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service users.
- Produce professional communications in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Mental Health Nurse, AHP or Social workers
Knowledge
Essential criteria- knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
- risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action and work under pressure
- Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation
- , highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of Mental Health assessments
- Working in YJS service or experience with assessments.
- Audit, teaching and training
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans.reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS.We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.