Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CORE CAMHS team based in Boston.  As clinical lead you will provide the expert knowledge within areas of specialism in relation to young people’s mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within the community setting.

You will be required to work jointly with the Team Manager in supporting the delivery of high standard of clinical care for young people experiencing an acute episode of mental health deterioration. This includes ensuring improved physical health monitoring, care delivery and parity of esteem.

You will also work closely with the Team Manager in  ensuring young people are accessing treatment in a timely manner, as well as provide leadership and work in partnership with service users, their carers’, colleagues across Children's and Young Persons Services as well as external agencies such as schools and Social Care.

You will provide effective formulation, clinical supervision, management supervision and play an active part, joint with the Team Manager, in the professional development of the clinical team.

You will hold a case load of complex cases and lead on the development of a transition pathway across the CAMHS service, supporting a seamless journey for children and young people.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include:

• To lead the team in the clinical delivery of care.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the clinical dimensions of service development. 
• Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.
•  Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour by linking them with evidence based treatment pathways.
•  Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning To assess carers’ and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
• Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
• To be a lead for transitions, improving the quality of a young persons discharge from services, ensuring they are supported to maintain their wellbeing into adult hood.
•  To provide clinical leadership for young people who are leaving care, ensuring their care is seamless as they move into adult hood.
• To support transitions of young people to adult services.
•  To develop clinical practice having due regard tor the NICE Guidelines in respect of treatment for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.