Pathway Lead Complex Depression Anxiety and Trauma Team | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, N7 8US |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7341584/455-NLFT-0284 |
Summary
Community Mental Health Services in North London Foundation Trust are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. Primary Care Core teams are being expanded to incorporate specialist services and provide comprehensive local, holistic, patient-centred care. The Camden CDAT Pathway Lead will be a social worker, nurse or OT with leadership experience. They will have a lead role in the provision of the multi-disciplinary specialist service for treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders. They will be responsible for the implementation and ongoing management of the CDAT pathway in the Camden Core teams. This is an opportunity to be part of a service that is dedicated to building positive futures for the staff team as well as the client group.
The CDAT pathway lead will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the team and ongoing evaluation of the service. They will be adaptable; working with the wider Core team, other Trust services and partner agencies in a solution-focussed and collaborative environment. The pathway lead will oversee the provision of biopsychosocial care to a range of service users. They will provide supervision and line management to a small team of Keyworkers (nurses, social workers and OTs). They will co-ordinate MDT meetings and work with the CDAT Psychology and Medical leads in order to deliver a holistic patient-centred service.
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.
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.
• To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
• To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.
• To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.
• To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.
• To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.
• To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
• To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025