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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

 An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Clinician to join the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) in Haringey CAMHS as Senior Practitioner. The AOT work with young people, aged 12-18, presenting with acute mental health needs (including severe depression and anxiety, trauma, psychosis) and/or significant levels of risk to self or others.

Haringey AOT are a multidisciplinary team, comprising of Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy and other CAMHS Clinicians. The team offer intensive contact for a period of time, to assess and support young people and their parents/carers manage their mental health needs and reduce risk taking behaviour. Clinicians in the AOT work closely with parents and carers, and with the network of connected professionals, including, schools, children’s services and other mental health providers, to promote a young person’s emotional wellbeing, safety and recovery.

Main duties of the job

·         To provide comprehensive specialist assessments including risk assessments of adolescents and their families/carers with complex mental health needs based on having an in-depth knowledge of child development, and adolescent mental health disorders.

·         To manage a caseload and to care coordinate within a multidisciplinary team approach and to be responsible for contributing to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

·         To assess and offer direct therapeutic intervention to young people and their parents/care system in the short/medium term.

·         To participate in the AOT duty system on a rotational basis; including independently being able to assess risk, develop discharge safety plans and provide follow up in the community, acting as a Key Worker/Care Co-ordinator to ensure continuity of care.

·         To write confidential reports for case conferences and education that may have wide ranging implications for adolescents and their families.

·         To be aware of and adhere to the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) Guidelines and to be aware of the implications of current legislation relating to the care and protection of children and young people, with particular emphasis on safeguarding.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.