CAMHS Clinician - CAMHS Schools Team, Children's Centres, CTT

We have jobs available across Islington CAMHS Therapies Team, Children's Centres and The Schools Team. These jobs are suitable for full time or for part time working.
We are looking for proactive, creative and highly skilled colleagues to join a combination of our CAMHS Therapies Team, and or Schools and Children's Centres Teams, depending on interest and experience. The successful applicant(s) will be passionate about working with children, community working, promoting emotional well-being through evidence based practice. As well as being passionate about improving access and health outcomes for some of the most vulnerable families in our borough. Experience of working in a CAMHS service and schools or Children's Centre settings is desirable. Clinicians should also be willing to work across Islington CAMHS.
We are committed to providing a service that is representative of our local community and welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds. As a borough we value a trauma informed approach to our work and supporting our staff.
To improve access for our Young People/Families and facilitate flexible working hours, Islington CAMHS operates an evening clinic Monday - Thursday until 19:00. This is optional and can form part of your job planning discussions with your manager.
Interviews:14th and 15th October 2024 AM, The post will involve delivering evidence-based interventions within CTT and either the Schools Team or Children's Centres (and potentially other CAMHS teams).
Every school in Islington has a CAMHS clinician attending weekly or fortnightly.
In the Schools Team, the post holder will be joining a well-established integrated multidisciplinary mental health team based in Islington's primary and secondary schools. The teams offers assessment and treatment to young people, their parents and carers, as well as indirect work such as support, consultation and training to education colleagues. We have been working closely with our education and Local Authority partners for over 15 years and are proud to provide a highly valued, comprehensive offer to local schools. The Schools Team is a supportive and friendly working environment offering fortnightly multidisciplinary meetings, regular supervision, direct support from senior clinicians and termly CPD opportunities.
The Bright Start Islington Children's Centres Team is located within a well respected CAMHS Early Years Service working with children up to 5 years of age and their families. The Early Years Service is made up of 4 teams. (The other services are: Growing Together, Parent and Baby Psychology and Incredible Years Parenting Groups) The Children's Centres Team is integrated within CAMHS and Local Authority early years provision. We offer direct clinical work for families and children under 5, staff consultation, parent workshops and training in all 16 of Islington's Children's Centres and their surrounding settings. Clinicians provide an early intervention and preventative approach to working with common childhood difficulties and developmental concerns and we work closely with other CAMHS teams. We are committed to using and developing evidence based early years interventions to support the families that we work with.
The CAMHS Therapies Team provides mental health assessment and treatment to children & young people, and their families, where there is a significant concern about their emotional or psychological well-being. These may be diagnosable mental health conditions that are often severe and enduring. The team offers CAMHS interventions and specialist evidence based treatments including CBT, Child Psychotherapy, IPT and Family Therapy.
Islington CAMHS also has an SEMH service that is the front door for CAMHS, Children's Social Care and voluntary sector services. Duty clinicians screen referrals, provide advice to parents and professionals and make referrals on to other CAMHS teams and community services.
We have a specialist NDT service for the assessment of Neurodevelopmental difficulties and a range of specialist teams for crisis support and specialist provision, including the Children's Looked After Team, Crisis Team and the Adolescent Outreach Service.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

The Borough
Islington is a wonderfully diverse borough. Despite its relatively small size it is densely populated with a resident child population of 40,000, which is about 20% of the total population. The borough is a varied community with extremes of affluence and poverty. There is a broad cultural mix from a range of ethnic minority groups.