CAMHS Crisis Pathway Psychological Therapies Lead inEdgware inEdgware PUBLISHED FRI 20 DEC 2024

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 organisation 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