Responsibilities
* Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy pathways and model‑driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.
* Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are in place for psychotherapy staff within the borough CAMHS service.
* Deputise for and accept delegated leadership responsibility for the CAMHS Management Team as appropriate.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice, with specific reference to child and adolescent psychotherapy within the borough service, in collaboration with and under the supervision of the psychological therapies lead for CAMHS.
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
* Propose and implement policy changes within the borough‑based CAMHS service and Trust‑wide CAMHS forums.
* Hold a clinical caseload according to job plan.
* Lead on the delivery of key KPIs and performance outcomes for the discipline within Enfield CAMHS.
* Provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
* Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child, young person and their families’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s) and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.
* In consultation with the Senior Management Team, implement a range of psychotherapeutic model‑driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
* Provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026.
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