Principal Child and Adolescent Mental Health - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Carelink is a CAMHS multi-disciplinary team providing specialist assessment and treatment for looked after and adopted children & young people aged 0-18 years.

The team is based at the Lister Health Centre in Peckham and provides regular training placements for psychotherapists and psychologists, and opportunities for training placements for clinicians from other disciplines.

This is an experienced team who hold 'going the extra mile' as a central tenet to their work with highly vulnerable young people and their carers.

This post holder will ensure service quality through their clinical leadership, their clinical assessments knowledge/practice and their use of theories to improve evidence based practice.

This post holder will provide skilled clinical judgements in the service clinical work. This post holder will lead in providing specialist therapy, supporting and supervising others. The post holder will participate in service leadership and actively lead on implementation of service priorities.

Southwark CAMHS is very committed to training and continuing professional development and provides both in house training opportunities and support for external training based on clinical need.

' CareLink is a long established team, the post holder will work alongside senior clinicians in the MDT to offer collaborative leadership within a skilled MDT

To ensure service quality through clinical leadership, breadth of clinical knowledge and skilled practice in clinical assessments and interventions with looked after and adopted children and adolescents.

To provide, consistently, skilled clinical judgements in clinical work with own patients and for those of other staff in the service.

To take a lead role in providing a highly specialist Therapy and supporting training and supervising others using this modality

To participate in the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to supervise staff and implement new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.

To jointly lead on service developments as required across the Service and where appropriate present these new initiatives at interagency and national workshops and conferences.

To provide professional leadership to peers and junior

The post holder will provide senior clinical input to Southwark CAMHS referral team

This post-holder will be based in CareLink and will be job planned to provide leadership and management to wider service priorities which would mean working across/in other Southwark CAMHS teams.

Hence, flexibility to work across different Southwark CAMHS teams is essential.

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8:00 to 6:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

About Us:

Carelink is a very welcoming service based on the first floor of a Health clinic and a 10 minute walk from the Peckham town centre.

The team is well established, with a very strong work ethic and commitment to engaging with young people in whatever ways work best.

There is excellent support for clinicians, both with joint work around assessments and opportunities for discussion within team meeting and through 1:1 supervision.

The Southwark CAMHS generic services are currently based at Mapother House on the Maudsley site.

located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.

Clinical Service Responsibility

With other senior colleagues and in partnership with the service manager and Consultant psychotherapist, provide leadership within the Carelink service deliver and maintain the quality of clinical care through effective multi
- professional practice and integrated interagency work.

Share the responsibility for managing risk within this clinical area. Ensure that all risks are managed in accordance with good practice, CAMHS Directorate and Trust Guidance, polices and procedures.

Explore, introduce and evaluate new clinical systems to improve the clinical performance of the service using performance management data to identify successes and challenges.

Quality assure, through regular audits, that appropriate evidence-based practice is in use and that appropriate care pathways are available from referral to discharge for all patients in the service and that patient outcome measures are analysed and regularly reported on.

Identify and develop the clinical skills of staff working in the service through case and practice supervision in general and specialist CAMHS assessments, care plans and treatment modalities.

Address areas where errors are likely to occur and take preventative measures to mini