CAMHS Therapist- Barnet Enhanced Support Team

We are looking to appoint a qualified and experienced CAMHS Therapist (e.g. Clinical Psychologist/Nurse/Family Therapist/Child Psychotherapist/Social Worker etc.)to the post based in the Barnet Enhanced Support Team at Barnet CAMHS

The Barnet Enhanced Support Team is a specialist multi-disciplinary CAMHS team who provide psychiatric and therapeutic intervention for the more high risk and challenging adolescents (aged 13-18) from across the borough of Barnet. This team has a particular focus on deliberate self harm, suicidal intent, severe mental health difficulties, those from complex families who may have suffered abuse or trauma, hard to engage adolescents, and those struggling to manage the transition to adulthood.

The team has a network of links to generic CAMHS, other adolescent services within the community and with Barnet Hospital, Adult Mental Health Services and the Tier 4 Adolescent Inpatient units as well as Youth Offending Services and the voluntary sector., The post holder will be based in the Barnet CAMHS team premises at Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital with other team members and they will have access to support from the team administrators.

The work is with young people and families who present with high risk to themselves and/or others and who will be difficult to engage in standard outpatient services. The team will provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing young people, with a particular focus on addressing the most urgent and acute problems facing troubled adolescents, including self-harm and severe mental health crises.

A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home visits and outreach work is the main part of the work.

The post holder will need to employ frequent and intense concentration during their work.

On occasions the post holder may be required to use their own vehicle to attend meetings or as part of the therapeutic process and outreach offer.

There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.

Experience of working clinically with young people with acute mental health issues in NHS settings;

Be confident to work independently both in community clinic based and outreach environments;

Experience of working with the professional network around the young person;

Be able to use own initiative and also to work as part of a team.

Candidates for all clinical posts must be registered with a recognised professional body.

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.