Opportunity to lead and influence the strategic direction of a critical mental health service for adolescents in crisis.
Collaboration with a range of agencies and professionals, fostering a multidisciplinary approach to care and enhancing professional development.
Ability to provide clinical and professional supervision, supporting the growth and effectiveness of psychological therapists within the pathway.
Role in promoting trauma-informed care and psychological strategies, positively impacting the mental health landscape for young people.
Engagement in co-production with service users, allowing for meaningful input from adolescents and their families in service development.
Access to varied training and teaching opportunities, contributing to the professional development of both self and colleagues.
Involvement in quality improvement and audit processes, enhancing service delivery and outcomes for young individuals in crisis.
The role of "CAMHS Crisis Pathway Psychological Therapies Lead" at North London NHS Foundation Trust involves leading a team of psychological therapists within a specialist CAMHS Crisis Pathway, which serves adolescents experiencing mental health crises across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. Key responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership and strategic direction to improve psychological and trauma-informed care within the pathway.
- Contributing to service development, planning, and organisation in collaboration with various agencies.
- Offering clinical supervision and guidance to psychological therapists.
- Delivering specialized psychological care and interventions for young people and their families.
- Promoting psychologically informed practices, including reflective practice and group supervision.
- Engaging with staff and service users for co-production in service development.
- Conducting training, workshops, and supporting audit and quality improvement initiatives.
The position may require working at different locations within the partnership area. Interested candidates can contact Victoria Lidchi, the CAMHS Head of Therapies, for more details.
Opportunity to lead and influence the strategic direction of a critical mental health service for adolescents in crisis.
Collaboration with a range of agencies and professionals, fostering a multidisciplinary approach to care and enhancing professional development.
Ability to provide clinical and professional supervision, supporting the growth and effectiveness of psychological therapists within the pathway.
Role in promoting trauma-informed care and psychological strategies, positively impacting the mental health landscape for young people.
Engagement in co-production with service users, allowing for meaningful input from adolescents and their families in service development.
Access to varied training and teaching opportunities, contributing to the professional development of both self and colleagues.
Involvement in quality improvement and audit processes, enhancing service delivery and outcomes for young individuals in crisis.
The CAMHS Crisis Pathway is a specialist set of teams working across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, to support adolescents in mental health crisis. The Crisis Pathway encompasses the A&E Hospital Liaison teams at Barnet and North Middlesex Hospitals, the Crisis telephone line and Crisis Hub, as well as the CAMHS Home Treatment Team and Beacon Centre inpatient and day patient services. The Crisis Pathway continues to develop and is expanding services to better meet the needs of young people in the area.
We are looking for a motivated practitioner psychologist or systemic psychotherapist to provide leadership to the psychological therapists on the pathway, and to work within the senior leadership team to influence the strategic direction of the pathway. This is to promote psychological and trauma informed thinking within the care provided by teams across the pathway.
- Contribute to the strategic development, planning and organization of the Crisis Pathway as a member of the senior leadership team, in line with local strategies and national priorities, working in partnership with a range of agencies and other senior management.
- Provide clinical and professional supervision for psychological therapist within the service and oversee the leadership of psychological therapists within the pathway.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care as well as delivering direct therapeutic interventions to young people and their families.
- To lead and develop psychologically informed provision across the crisis pathway including reflective practice, group supervision, and other ways of working.
- To work collaboratively with staff and service users, including via co-production to support service development.
- To provide teaching, workshops and training internally as needed.
- To support with audit and quality improvement
- The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Victoria Lidchi Job title: CAMHS Head of Therapies Email address: Telephone number: 02