Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (end date April 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon to Fri 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 310-MCYPF-7066168
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City Care Centre
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead - Core CAMHS
Band 7
Job overview
You will work within the CAMHS North Team Core Pathway Peterborough to support and lead on service improvement initiatives and provide effective clinical leadership and supervision to staff.
You will support developments within the Children, Young People and Families Directorate and partner agencies. You will promote and contribute to accessibility of the service, high quality evidence-based care, and efficient caseload management within the team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Collaborate with the Single Point of Access Team (SPA - YOUnited) effectively to improve access to the service.
- Provide clinical leadership to colleagues across all areas of the team
- Identify levels of clinical risk and prioritise accordingly and provide advice and leadership to staff.
- Provide comprehensive and collaborative assessment to children, young people, and families.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide collaborative care plans and effective evidence-based intervention to children, young people, and families. This includes work specifically for the more complex case presentation.
- Support, promote and further develop an assessment and treatment approach.
- Provide clinical / professional supervision, and where appropriate, operational supervision, to staff in the team.
- Undertake rostered Duty tasks on weekdays (9am-5pm), providing mental health risk assessment and care plans to children and young people presenting in crisis.
- Support, promote and further develop the use of clinical outcome measures within the team.
- Cultivate positive and collaborative relationships with related pathways, teams and services, in particular the Neuro CAMHS and Eating Disorders pathways, the substance use service (CASUS), YOUnited, Home Treatment Team (HTT), acute and Community Paediatrics and other child health services, Early Help services, emotional help & wellbeing services, schools, social care and the First Response Service (FRS).
- Support and promote high quality record keeping, including care plan audit and activity recording.
- Provide a leadership role alongside the Team Manager and other senior colleagues to monitor and report on activity, clinical capacity, service user feedback, compliance on supervision recording and appraisals, and compliance with mandatory training.
- To support in the leadership and operational duties during Team Manager periods or absence such as leave, such as representation at identified meetings.
Person specification
eduaction/qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified nurse, social worker, occupational therapist, arts therapist, SALT or psychological therapist.
- A current professional registration with the NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
- Qualification in an evidence -based therapy.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised Leadership or management qualification
- Evidence of leadership or management experience
- V300 Nurse prescriber or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-qualifying clinical experience in a setting or with a client group relevant to CAMHS.
- Experience of mental health risk assessment and management.
- Experience of working with complex presentations
- Experience of working with children and young people and families.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using clinical outcome measures and working to agreed targets
- Experience of service user involvement / participation initiatives.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience working with recognised systems of managing referrals and patient flow / demand and capacity systems
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Highly developed communication skills, verbally and in writing. Able to provide complex and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious or distressing information to clients, their families/carers and other professional colleagues from a range of agencies.
- Able to carry out clinical audits
- Able to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable criteria
- Skills in relevant model(s) of therapeutic intervention
- Able to demonstrate effectiveness in a clinical leadership role.
- Able to demonstrate consultation skills
- Presentational skills.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of how Community CAMHS services operate including systems for referral management and multi-disciplinary approaches.
- Knowledge of Children’s Safeguarding mechanisms.
- Knowledge of neuro-developmental disorders including ADHD, ASD and Learning Disability including risk and safeguarding issues relevant to this group
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the application of specific therapeutic models to different needs
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of therapeutic approaches in specific difficult-to-treat groups
other
Essential criteria
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
- Able to travel between sites.
- Able to tolerate ambiguity and take decisions in situations where information is incomplete
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Charlton
- Job title
- Team Lead Core CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03005555810
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