CAMHS LeadinChadwell HeathinChadwell HeathPUBLISHED TUE 25 MAR 2025

We are seeking a full-time Band 8a Senior Colleague to join our busy and dynamic CAMHS Team In Redbridge. We have a growing and supportive team, and we are looking for a CAMHS Lead- who is passionate about young people's mental health and wellbeing to join us in the delivery of high quality and effective CAMHS interventions.This role requires a post-graduate qualification who is registered with the appropriate professional and regulatory bodies (NMC, HCPC, GSW, AFT and UKCP) and has at least two years' experience in leading complex camhs services (or similar child and adolescent mental health) setting.

The service operates a 9am-5pm Monday -Friday service from the main site in Chadwell Health which is a short walk away from the new TFL Elizabeth Line. We provide access, assessment, treatment following recommended guidance to a growing population of 0-18-year-olds. We work as a fully integrated MDT working alongside and in collaboration with primary care, universal, targeted and specialised MH services, as well as our educational providers and local authority colleagues.

Our Values 2025 - 2

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.

This post involves assessing and treating children and young people who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties in a community CAMHS setting. The successful candidate will work across the Emotional, Neurodevelopmental, Complex and Conduct pathways, leading and supervising their team and other multi-disciplinary team (MDT) members in the management of these cases.

The post holder will coordinate and lead on the clinical pathways , as well as working with MDT and multi-agency colleagues to support their clinical practice.

The post holder will receive regular clinical supervision and will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings as well as network meetings of cases on their caseload. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and partnership agencies as we promote a trauma informed model of practice within the service. CPD opportunities will be available.

The post holder will be part of the CAMHS leadership team, working with other senior clinicians in the team to develop the service and meet the changing needs of a diverse population.

About us

. Working with the MDT to provide assessments and interventions for children, young peopleand their families.2. Develop high quality specialist assessment and interventions with the MDT based onspecific pathway.3. Provide professional, generic, and specific advice, training, consultation, and supervisionto colleagues, as appropriate.4. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-today allocation of work. This will be in conjunction of the treatment pathway intervention.5. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhereto them.6. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust foraudit purposes.7. 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.

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.