Specialist Clinician – Locum Maternity Cover

Job overview

Growing With You is the Children Looked After and Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers CAMHS in Camden. It is a multi-disciplinary specialist team which is co-located with social workers from the Local Authority Children Looked After and Permanency Teams.

We are looking for someone who would be able to cover maternity leave for a year. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that assesses mental health needs; advises on appropriate mental health provisions, risk management; care planning and provides interventions and therapeutic support to children, young people and their carers.

The team has a community approach and will provide a range of interventions in an attempt to engage and support this group of young people to develop relationships with professionals.

Main duties of the job

The team promotes joint working between different agencies and works in partnership with carers and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people, whilst maintaining professional independence.

There is an expectation that the post holder will be able to work flexibly in the community both within Camden, its surrounding boroughs and at times outside of London.

The post holder will hold a caseload of highly complex service users.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to a group of service users, conscious of their changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity, working collaboratively, with other clinicians and stakeholders.

You will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of outcome focused, evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care.

The post holder will contribute to the quality, safety and continuous improvement of services provided to service users and their families.

The post holder will foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent way with internal and external partners.

You will act as a positive role model and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.

You will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust’s policies, procedures and obligation in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.