Brief Intervention Pathway Lead

1 month ago


Barking, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking to appoint an energetic and proactive CAMHS Brief Intervention Clinical Lead who is dedicated to crisis management and guarantees the delivery of safe and effective interventions to a high-risk demographic. The service is accessed by young people who are often dealing with severe mental health issues, including psychosis, depression, affective disorders, anxiety, neurodevelopmental disorders, or significant emotional and behavioural challenges, such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, or thoughts of harming others, where the risk level is considered high.

In addition, there will be a requirement to work closely with external stake holders; acute hospitals, social care, schools and the police.

To provide responsible and effective leadership for a clinical team, ensuring seamless and consistent service via a multidisciplinary approach.
To manage crises and risks effectively within the community, oversee complex case management, and support staff in handling such cases.
To ensure care and operational policies are underpinned by equality, diversity, and inclusion, taking into account the cultural, religious, and spiritual needs of young people and their families.
To manage an emotionally demanding workload efficiently, often under pressure, involving multiple stakeholders with potentially high levels of expressed emotion and service demands.
To ensure staff maintain accurate and secure clinical and electronic records to a high standard.
To lead a responsive service that values and supports staff through supervision, training opportunities, and career development.
To act as a senior management representative, participating in working groups or forums for service development to create relevant policies, protocols, or guidelines.
To conduct service audits and evaluations.
To collaborate with partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services align with local objectives and joint care strategies.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Probationary Period

The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified family therapy practitioner; fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT), plus an additional post-graduate qualification in Psychotherapeutic Therapies (e.g. CYP IAPT/ post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy).

The post-holder will provide specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement of CAMHS service users and the clinical supervision of junior clinicians within the team, where required.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based service is available to all service users who require this input, throughout the borough.

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the team.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include systemic family work, parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist psychotherapeutic treatments. They will be responsible for all specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and family therapy interventions within their professional sphere of expertise.

**Key Responsibilities**:
To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist intervention service for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioural, and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.
To be able to effectively manage an emotionally demanding workload often under pressure and involving multiple stakeholders who may present with high expressed emotion and increased service pressures.
To work alongside partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies.
- To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team, ensuring seamless and consistent service using a multidisciplinary team.

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