CAMHS Clinician in Social Emotional Mental Health team

CAMHS Clinician in Social Emotional Mental Health team

Band 7

Main area Mental Health Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: 1 WTE Hours

• Full time
• Job share

37.5 hours per week (Full time) Job ref 220-WHT-4077

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Islington Council Town London Salary £58,133 - £65,261 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 24/07/2026 23:59

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Job overview

This role is open to CAMHS clinicians with broad experience and clinical qualification - Clinical Psychologist / Family and Systemic Psychotherapist / Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist / Counselling Psychologist/ Occupational Therapist/ Clinical Social Worker/ Mental Health Nurse/ CAMHS clinician

This is an exciting opportunity for a CAMHS clinician to work within Islington’s Central Point of Access, Social Emotional Mental Health (SEMH) team . The successful candidates will offer duty, triage and assessment work.

Islington’s Central Point of Access (CPA) and SEMH service provision was launched in Sept 2019. It is a partnership between CAMHS, Barnardo’s Counselling, Targeted Youth Services, the Brandon Centre and Isledon Well-Being Workers. The CPA operates from Islington Children’s Social Care (CSCT), 222 Upper Street and the SEMH team works closely with Social Care and Early Help providers. We are very proud to have been ‘Highly Commended’ by the HSJ (Health Service Journal) Awards 2020.

You will join an innovative, enthusiastic and supportive team which is highly respected in the Borough with strong working relationships with partner agencies.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic clinician with experience of working with children and families within the social, emotional. mental health context.

The role will include:

• Duty/ risk screening of CAMHS and SEMH referrals.
• Responsibility for a caseload (triage and assessment) over the telephone and face-to-face assessments when required.
• Providing a responsive service offering advice and consultation to families, professionals and referrers about SEMH difficulties and services

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see JD and Person Specification

The role is principally to process referrals received to Islington's Central Point of Access and Social Emotional Mental Health team, working in conjunction with Children's Social Care and Partner Agencies.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies
• HPC or other relevant professional registration
• 1 year post qualifying experience of working in working with children and families

Skills & Abilities

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and crisis CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment
• Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for children with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties and challenging behaviour, their families and carers.
• Skills in assessing and understanding the mental health needs of adults.
• Experience and skills in providing consultation and advice to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.
• Being able to collaboratively work with other agencies. Appreciation and interest to develop understanding of how partner agencies work, following the defined pathways.
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
• Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Knowledge & Experience

• Understands developmental and neurodevelopmental issues for children and able to adapt assessment and interventions accordingly
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedureUnderstands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to a high level to working practice with colleagues and clients
• Experience of providing a culturally sensitive therapeutic service to young people and families.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
• Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
• Knowledge of or training in trauma-informed approaches with children and young people.
• Experience of working clinically in community settings e.g. with children’s centres and schools to meet the mental health needs of CYP

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

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• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

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.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.