Clinical Lead - Complex & Unplanned Care

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

WF CAMHS Clinical Lead - Alliance (Complex and Unplanned Care/ Crisis Prevention)

Are you a passionate and experienced healthcare professional with a strong background in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)? Are you ready to take on a leadership role and guide a team delivering mental health support to children and young people?

At NELFT, we are dedicated to continuously improving CAMHS provision across Waltham Forest in collaboration with our commissioners. Our Alliance Team is at the forefront of this innovative work, and we are seeking an inspiring Clinical Lead to drive the development and delivery of exceptional care within the Alliance/Complex Care Team.

We’re looking for a professional registered with the appropriate regulatory body (, HCPC, NMC), with proven CAMHS experience and a passion for leading others.

If you are ready to inspire, innovate, and lead a dedicated team in a progressive environment, we encourage you to apply.

Full details of the application process, job description, and additional guidance are attached. In your application, please demonstrate how your leadership, skills, and experience position you to excel in this vital role.

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Lead, you will:

Provide clinical leadership to the Alliance team, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice. Oversee assessments and treatment interventions for children and young people. Support and guide colleagues across the wider CAMHS service, fostering collaboration and professional development. Play a pivotal role in shaping the service, driving innovation, and improving outcomes.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). 

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

We are kind. We are respectful.We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.

Working with the MDT to provide assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families.

Provide clinical leadership to the Alliance team, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice.

Provide professional, generic, and specific advice, training, consultation, and supervision to colleagues, as appropriate.

To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.

To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

To supervise pre-registration students.

To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system. 

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A recognised health discipline Nursing (RGN), Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Speech and Language Therapist or other appropriate qualification Registration with the appropriate professional and State measurement Application Form Interview Assessment regulatory bodies (NMC, HCPC, GSW, AFT and UKCP Evidence of on-going personal and professional development

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of NHS Priorities Knowledge of the UK legislation in relation to the health and welfare services to children and adolescents and mental health.

Experience

Essential criteria

At least three years experience in delivering mental health interventions in a CAMHS (or similar child and adolescent mental health) setting. Demonstrable experience of improving quality for service users and carers Experience of delivering Supervision

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.