North London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Special CAMHS Clinician
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Highly Special CAMHS Clinician
The Whole Family Service
The Whole Family Service is a highly specialist CAMHS which works with families who might have a complex relationship with help. The service uses creative and flexible approaches to engage families whose multiple difficulties mean they might not be able to access a traditional clinic-based service. The service is co-located across local authority services to enable effective partnership working and facilitate coordination amongst professional networks.
Service Composition
The service is comprised of two teams, the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialist (WFT-P) and the Whole Family Team (WFT). The WFT-P is a highly specialist service offering psychological therapy to families during pregnancy and with babies, toddlers and children up to the age of 5 years. The WFT is based with Camden local authority social care teams such as safeguarding and family help (previously children’s services), alternative education provision (e.g. SEMH school, PRUs), youth justice, early help and the adolescent prototype team. The teams offer both direct assessments, interventions and consultation to other professionals and comprise of Psychology, Systemic Family Therapy, Child Psychotherapy and Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, and Senior Practitioners.
Role Responsibilities
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- Spend time in the WFT supporting the team clinical delivery of a high standard by attending team referral meetings, providing supervision, and attending weekly clinical team and business meetings.
- Be based between 5 Pancras Square, the local authority head office, and an allocated specialist Camden service as a link worker.
- Hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
- Provide consultation to external agencies such as GPs/schools/Local authorities.
- Communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviours.
- Maintain a high standard of clinical records, producing and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved, liaising with the referrers where appropriate, including liaison with local services and participating in outreach meetings.
About North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
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
- Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
- Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- Develop and retain staff through leadership behaviors and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- 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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Subreena Charlemagne-Odle
- Job title: Specialist Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead
- Email address: SCharlemagneOdle@tavi-port.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0202 938 2272
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