Job overview

BEH and Camden and Islington foundation trust have merged to become the North London NHS Foundation Trust  to work with in the North Central London integrated care board brackets (ICB) and the general practitioner (GP) to ensure that there is comprehensive transformation of care for the people living in the boroughs of Barnet Camden Enfield Haringey and Islington we are working with ICB and GP network to ensure that people living in the NCL sector are provided with effective compassionate and equitable care irrespective of their post code within the NCL sector. 

NLFT NHS Trust understands the importance of resilient childhood and have embarked on a path to provide effective, personalised and compassionate care to young people living in the boroughs of North Central London . The trust has created a specific CAMHS division to focus on achieving this aim.  

Main duties of the job

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, skilled, approachable and motivated specialty doctor to join the Haringey CAMHS team to help in managing the care of young people living within the north central London and collaborative. This is an excellent opportunity for a specialty doctor who would like to work within a well-functioning adolescent assertive outreach team and established community CAMHS team with a diverse multi-disciplinary team.  

This is a new post that has been specifically created to provide an effective and timely service to the young people living in the borough of Barnet due to the increased demand for CAMHS within the service. 
 
The person appointed to the post will be encouraged to innovate under the supervision of a consultant and pursue research interest as appropriate the child and adolescent research unit based at University College London CAMHS research unit. The post holder will be encouraged to participate in various QI projects with the service and will also be encouraged to come up with new QI projects as appropriate. 

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.