Clinical Lead YJS and Complex Pathway

Job overview

At NELFT, we are dedicated to continuously improving CAMHS provision across Barking & Dagenham in collaboration with our commissioners, partner agencies and co production with our young people and their carers. We’re looking for an experienced professional clinical practitioner registered with the appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC), with proven CAMHS experience and a passion for supporting others and being a team player.

If you are ready to inspire, innovate, and work collaboratively in a dedicated team and in a progressive environment, we encourage you to apply.

Full details of the application process, job description, and additional guidance are attached. In your application, please demonstrate how your skills, and experience position you to excel in this vital role.

The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership into the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway Lead in B&D CAMHS Service. The post holder will lead operations for the B&D Youth Justice Service and Complex Pathway in the B&D CAMHS team, collaborating closely with the Senior B&D CAMHS Management Team. Provide managerial and clinical leadership while contributing to service development, referral management, and fostering interagency collaboration.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected undertake highly specialist assessments in order to contribute to the clinical leadership and oversight for mental health assessments and interventions within the YJS context and Complex Pathway process and to formulate areas of strengths and needs based on good practice and evidence. Conduct thorough assessments to identify mental health needs and formulate appropriate treatment plans.

Provide operational and clinical leadership to the YJS and Complex pathway for children/YP in B&D CAMHS Service

Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents referred to YJS and Complex pathway and to provide this service also to their carers/parents and families.

Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessments and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessments and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred onto the Complex pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level.

Support and deputise other pathways and pathway leads in the B&D CAMHS Service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• l To lead and develop the role/service of the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway within the CAMHS Service by identifying service needs, developing the pathways in line with best practice and developing innovative solutions to meet these needs.
• To advise NELFT colleagues and other relevant services on areas of emerging clinical practice, risk assessment and how these might be incorporated into current team activity.

• Attending relevant meetings to provide a resource on clinical health psychological factors for other team members, and through consultation and advice, lead the psychological dimension of the pathway.
• Lead on the delivery of specialist psychological assessment, interventions, treatment, advice and support for service users (and families/carers) referred within the care pathway.
• To take a lead role in aspects of the clinical and professional development supporting the psychology team that deliver neurodevelopmental clinical services
• To take a lead in developing the ethos of evidence-based practice within the community of referrers
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service users.
• Produce professional communications in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users. Use of AI Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.