CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPoA) ClinicianNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Nurses, Social Workers, and Allied Health Professionals to join the Children and Young People Single Point of Access (CYP SPoA). Based across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, our well-established team is known for being supportive, friendly, and welcoming.

The CYP SPoA is responsible for the triage and initial assessment of referrals for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. We work collaboratively to ensure timely, effective support for those in need.

We are currently recruiting for roles in within the triage team and are seeking practitioners with:

• Experience in mental health and working with children, young people, and families
• A strong understanding of complex needs and risk management
• A background in mental health or social care, with a commitment to multidisciplinary collaboration

If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Coordinate the day to day running of the SPA team, including screening new referrals and allocating these to the access clinicians. Complete telephone triages/screening for young people themselves, telephone risk assessment and management plans. Complete brief assessments and interventions for young people referred to the CAMHS Division. Manage and maintain clear waiting lists for the clinical teams that sit within the CAMHS Division. Ensure the safe delivery of Key KPI's and access to treatment standards. Comply with the service requirements for the completion of routine outcome measures. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.

Where appropriate, to implement a range of brief psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals

Job description

Coordinate the day to day running of the SPA team, including screening new referrals and allocating these to the access clinicians.Complete telephone triages/screening for young people who are referred to our service, making contact with families, allied professionals and the young person themselves.Complete over the telephone risk assessment and management plans.Complete brief assessments and interventions for young people referred to the CAMHS Division. Manage and maintain clear waiting lists for the clinical teams that sit within the CAMHS Division. Manage and maintain a clear duty rota for the CAMHS Division. Ensure the safe delivery of Key KPIs and access to treatment standards.Comply with the service requirements for the completion of routine outcome measures.To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.Where appropriate, to implement a range of brief psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.To attend multi agency meetings to support the referral and assessment of children and young people to specialist CAMHS.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

1.We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home

2.With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3.We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

4.We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.