CAMHS Lead Clinician

We are excited to advertise a Lead Clinician post within Wakefield CAMHS Core Team! We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, forward-thinking clinician to work as part of our team., Leadership role within the team, working alongside the Team Manager.

- A small clinical, complex caseload.

- Supporting Practitioners in the team with complex cases, offering supervision, clinical advice and safeguarding support.

- Offering clinical supervision.

- Delivering training/new processes out to the service/team.

- Ensuring a governance overview in the team.

- Work closely with other teams to renew/develop pathways and processes.

- Take a lead in co-ordinating complex cases.

- Take on additional roles, such as a service representative e.g. Suicide Prevention which will involve meetings with the relevant agencies and sharing learning with the service.

- Sharing learning from incidents in the service.

- Caseload reviews.

Cover for the Team Manager when on leave.

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The service is keen to recruit an experienced Clinician to lead the current clinical work within our Core Team, alongside developing the clinical skills of the service. The team are multi-disciplinary and provide assessment and interventions for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe complex emotional, behavioural and psychological issues resulting in mental health problems.

Ideally, candidates will have extensive experience working within the field of children's mental health in a health care setting. They should be able to demonstrate core knowledge and skills in mental health assessment, formulation, care planning and treatment.

Youwill work alongside the Team Manager and other lead clinicians in the service, having the opportunity to be at the forefront of a developing service, and they will play a key role in shaping how services are provided to children, young people and families.

Providing Clinical Leadership through the provision of clinical supervision, caseload management supervision.

The lead clinician will be required to work flexibly to support the needs of the service. Extensive clinical knowledge and relevant experience of assessing and managing risk within a mental health and/or social care setting is essential.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.