Job summary
Employer heading
CAMHS Clinician - CIT
NHS AfC: Band 7
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a prominent mental health trust which combines patient services, research, and consultancy with a national remit for delivering mental health-related education and training.
Main duties of the job
If you are a dynamic and creative CAMHS clinician who is looking to develop professionally, and who has a passion for working with children, young people and families in community CAMHS in innovative ways, this is a great opportunity for you. You will join the Clinical Intake Team (CIT) which is a multi-disciplinary team staffed by highly experienced clinicians and part of a large and vibrant child and family department. The CIT team works very closely with the Community CAMHS services and our partner agencies. We are proud to offer a dynamic, innovative, and needs-led service. We strive to be an accessible, responsive, and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart.
Working for our organisation
You will provide input to Camden CAMHS’s intake structure and will be part of this exciting development in our service, aiming to build on our success in creating the high-quality front door service to meet service users’ needs. This includes joining our innovative Integrated Front Door service alongside Camden social care. There are other opportunities including service development, Quality Improvement and clinical governance initiatives, service user involvement, audit, and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be part of the team’s various duty rotas, and this will include responding to urgent queries. The post holder will be supervised by a senior clinician and join a growing team discipline depending on the successful applicant’s professional body.
Candidates who are due to qualify in the summer may apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registration with HCPC or relevant body as a Clinical Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Psychotherapist, or Systemic Therapist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group Some experience of clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
- Keyboard / IMT skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sezer Fahri
- Job title
- Clinical Intake Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8938 2283
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