North London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist for CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPOA)
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join NLFT CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPOA) as a Clinical Psychologist.
This role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support children and young people and their families.
About the Role
The purpose of the Single Point of Access (SPOA) is to assess children and young people being referred in to the CAMHS Division to ascertain the most appropriate service to meet their needs. The post requires significant clinical and organisational skills. You will adhere to the goals of ‘No wrong Front Door’ and support the operations of the Access Team who seek to identify the right service for a young person at the right time. We have developed a system of triage to help identify needs, assess risk and if appropriate offer initial assessment and brief intervention, using the iThrive model. As SPOA work closely with the other CAMHS teams, it is likely that there will be opportunities for work across teams in line with the post holder’s interests or skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the day to day running of the SPOA team, including screening new referrals, 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, the young person themselves.
- Complete over the telephone risk assessment, management plans.
- To provide (specialist) psychological assessments to children who are referred to the using a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young person’s care.
- To provide brief interventions for young people referred to SPOA or other CAMHS teams.
- Help to manage and maintain clear waiting lists for the clinical teams that sit within the CAMHS Division.
- To provide advice and on clients’ psychological care.
- To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
- To support and promote the use of measures to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience within supervision, team meetings and other forums.
- To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
- To be involved in co-production, to support the development of services.
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About the Trust
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Georgia Macken
- Job Title: CYP Single Point of Access Operations Manager
- Email Address: georgia.macken@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 0208 702 3111
Additional Contact:
- Name: Lolita Riley
- Job Title: Barnet SPOA Team Manager
- Email Address: lolita.Riley5@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 0208 207 3111
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