Camhs Lac Countywide Clinical Team Lead

2 weeks ago


Bedford, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This post will form part of the CAMHS senior leadership team in Bedfordshire and Luton and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people.

The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS non-medical discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and management of the Countywide Bedfordshire and Luton Looked after Children’s Team. The post is open to all disciplines including psychology, family therapy, nursing, social work, creative therapies.

This is a community-based post across the county, leading on the delivery of a flexible, trauma-informed and evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work to children who are in care and their caring systems, in Luton. The post holder will also lead on the delivery of interventions such as consultation, triage, training, and other forms of support to the professional networks working with children in care, supporting and informing on the trauma-based care for the children and young people, and their caring networks, helping to develop a systems of care and trauma-informed approach with partner agencies.

The post holder would need to ensure the county-wide team has robust training, consultative and highly specialist evidence-informed assessment to treatment packages in place, and a readiness to assess mental illness, risk and resiliency in young people, using a contextualized formulation approach. The role would include working on an individual, family or group basis and providing consultations to social workers and foster carers, training and contributing to group programs and supervision within the team.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

The county-wide LAC Team provides highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children, adolescents and their families from a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds, whose complex problems cause moderate to high levels of concern to themselves, their parents/carers, professionals and the wider community. The team also works closely with the locality CAMHS teams to provide a seamless multi-disciplinary service across the pathways of support, depending on need.

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