Generic Team Care Coordinator

Overview

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as CAMHS practitioner. This role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality care and support to young people with a range of mental health and neurodevelopment conditions. The post holder would be expected to work as care coordinator to children and young people with a range of needs including neurodevelopmental and mental health who are waiting for an assessment or a therapeutic intervention.

The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service. The role will also involve liaising with clinicians within the service and external services to support and stabilise a young person and their family, manage risks and promote integration into academic and social settings.

Barnet CAMHS use the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families. The Framework is needs-led and defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. The post sits predominantly within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role.

The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.

You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.

You will offer advice and consultation on clients  psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team s policies and procedure. You will also clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members and trainees of the team.

The post holder will utilise research skills for QI and make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.

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:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

• 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

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.

Date posted 20 January 2026

Pay scheme Agenda for change

Band Band 6

Salary £44,485 to £52,521 a year Per annum including HCAS

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Full-time

Reference number 455-NLFT-0606

Job locations CAMHS Holly Oak Edgware Hospital;
Burnt Oak Broadway;
Edgware; HA8 0AD

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
• To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and…