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Young Adult Mental Health Pathway Lead | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 August 2024 |
| Location: | Westminster, SW1V 1DX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6497331/333-J-WE-0690 |
Summary
This post is a unique and exciting opportunity for the right candidate to lead on the development and improvement of a high quality, accessible mental health pathway for 16-25 year olds (“young adults”) across five boroughs in North West London.
This post will be aligned to the Westminster borough but will be expected to work across the whole young adult pathway. The pathway would align with the Trust’s model of care for Young Adults and look to provide a high quality, safe and effective pathway tailored for the 16-25 age range, aiming to reduce gaps, address unmet needs, facilitate smooth transitions, and ensure a positive service user experience.
The post-holder will act as the primary source of expertise and advice on the 16-25 year old population including providing consultation, supervision, teaching and training on assessing, referring, signposting, managing risk, and working therapeutically with this age range, working with CAMHS and adult teams.
The post-holder will lead on relationship building, liaison and partnership work with a range of internal and external partners across sectors, provide clinical supervision to community navigators and peer support workers as required and may also have the opportunity to hold a defined caseload of young adults and undertake psychological interventions.
This post would be ideally suited to someone who has a particular passion for working with the 16-25 year old range and for transforming this population’s experience of mental health services for the better.
CNWL is committed to the improvement of support and services for young adults aged 16-25 years
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post holder will work to ensure that the team work to an agreed operational policy offering a high standard and an integrated triage and assessment service to young adults presenting with mental health problems.
• To ensure that responsibilities under the Care Act and other relevant legislation are delivered on to a high quality and standard.
• To develop positive relationships with young adult partners services/agencies served by their borough ensuring that services to those practices are provided to the highest possible standard
• To deliver a model of providing advice and support to those young adult partners services/agencies in relation to young adults with mental health difficulties and of triaging and assessing referrals from the practices and other referral sources.
• To deliver a model of working with young adults, ensuring that services are provided to the highest possible standard and attuned to the needs of young adults and their families
• The post holder will be expected to have well developed clinical skills of their own in order to enable them to appropriately guide and supervise staff at all levels and, undertake clinical work of their own
• The post holder may be required to line manage other members of staff in the pathway.
This advert closes on Thursday 8 Aug 2024
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