Clinical Lead - Complex & Unplanned Care in Walthamstow inWalthamstow PUBLISHED MON 10 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section
Job description
WF CAMHS Clinical Lead - Alliance (Complex and Unplanned Care/ Crisis Prevention)
Are you a passionate and experienced healthcare professional with a strong background in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)? Are you ready to take on a leadership role and guide a team delivering mental health support to children and young people?
At NELFT, we are dedicated to continuously improving CAMHS provision across Waltham Forest in collaboration with our commissioners. Our Alliance Team is at the forefront of this innovative work, and we are seeking an inspiring Clinical Lead to drive the development and delivery of exceptional care within the Alliance/Complex Care Team.
We're looking for a professional registered with the appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC), with proven CAMHS experience and a passion for leading others.
If you are ready to inspire, innovate, and lead a dedicated team 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 leadership, skills, and experience position you to excel in this vital role.
As the Clinical Lead, you will:
- Provide clinical leadership to the Alliance team, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice.
- Oversee assessments and treatment interventions for children and young people.
- Support and guide colleagues across the wider CAMHS service, fostering collaboration and professional development.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the service, driving innovation, and improving outcomes.
About us
To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
Working with the MDT to provide assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families.
Provide clinical leadership to the Alliance team, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice.
Provide professional, generic, and specific advice, training, consultation, and supervision to colleagues, as appropriate.
To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
To supervise pre-registration students.
To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
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.
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.
If you're interested in this role but you have questions or you're not yet ready to apply, then please book a quick call with us and we'd be happy to answer any questions you have and tell you more about the role.
Requirements
See the job description for full role requirements.
Benefits
Benefits are provided by the employer and will be confirmed during your application.
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