Triage Team and Assessment Clinics LeadJob summaryTower Hamlets (TH) Children and Adolescent Mental Health service (CAMHS) is an innovative and supportive service which consists of a number of care pathways which includes our Triage team.
The post holder will provide leadership and specialist service within Tower Hamlets CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the Triage team in TH CAMHS which offer Triage and screening for a wide variety of clinical presentations which meet our TH CAMHS criteria.
The post holder will also contribute to the ongoing development and management of the Triage team, and this is likely to include opportunities to contribute to change and developments in the Triage team and wider service. The post holder will also lead and hold oversight for the service wide assessment clinics and the interface between triage and duty in the service. The post holder will also provide clinical interventions, specialist supervision, consultation, and training as required. The post holder will hold accountability for clinical decision making and the management of clinical risk in the Triage team and manage the assessment clinics and the interface between triage and duty within the service.
Main duties of the jobThe post-holder will lead innovative developments in managing wait times, triage models, as well as providing supervision and leadership to other members of the Triage team. The role will involve working with other service leads and Senior Leadership team to develop and sustain relationships with our local voluntary and third sector agencies and contributing to a culture of collaborative practice, in line with TH CAMHS clinical strategy and partnership working across TH.
The post holder will provide highly specialised knowledge and skills to a team of clinicians carrying out screenings within the Triage team. The post holder will demonstrate leadership and management skills that will contribute to the positive working environment and culture within the team and wider service and in line with Trust values. The post holder will contribute to providing clinical care to young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties. The post holder will also be expected to plan and prioritise their workload and exercise autonomous professional responsibility for clinical, management and leadership tasks including management of risks. They will work independently within appropriate clinical/professional guidelines and clinical governance. The clinical work will also include the provision of specialist advice/consultation, mental health assessment, clinical intervention, liaison with other agencies and support, supervision and teaching of staff and/or students/trainees.
About usOur mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
DetailsDate posted: 10 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £75,328 to £86,114 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 363-SS8114408
Job locations: Tower Hamlets CAMHS, 18 Greatorex Street, London, E1 5NF, United Kingdom
Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesPlease refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
For further information and/or an informal discussion please contact Dr Ruksana Ahmed, Associate Clinical Director - ruksana.ahmed2@nhs.net.
Person SpecificationEducation/ Qualification/ TrainingEssential- A qualification and professional registration in Child Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, Nursing, Counselling Psychology, Arts Therapies, Social Work, or other equivalent profession
- Registration with appropriate professional body e.g., ACP, HPC, UKCP, HCPC, NMC, ADMPUK
- Formal Training in Clinical Supervision
Desirable- Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g., Leadership
- Training in interventions for CYP with complex presentations including Neurodiversity, trauma etc.
ExperienceEssential- Substantial post qualification experience within the specialty of CAMHS including delivering evidence-based assessments and interventions for CYP and families with emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Experience of management and/or leadership of screening/triage pathways in clinical services
- Experience of liaison and joint work with other statutory, including Social Services and Education, and voluntary agencies, including crisis management
- Experience of professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of assessing children, young people and families for intervention including risk assessment
- Experience of providing evidence-based interventions to clients with complex needs
- Experience of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
- Experience of working in inner city communities and awareness of the impact of oppression, discrimination and disadvantages on mental health
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary or multi agency teams
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' therapeutic care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of quality improvement and change management projects
- Experience of service development projects
- Experience of managing staff including utilising performance support and management plans
- Experience of and ability to analyse, interpret and present performance data as part of performance and quality assurance responsibilities
Desirable- Experience of implementing new models of working in CAMHS
- Experience of teaching/training
Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesEssential- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level, complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to young people, adolescent clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy and diplomacy to overcome significant barriers to understanding and acceptance often in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere
- Able to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Assessment and formulation skills and ability to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations. Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options based on formulations
- Ability to practice in an emotionally sensitive way and to deal with hostility and antagonism, to impart difficult news
- Negotiation Skills
- Skills of assessment and formulation of highly complex clinical and staff situations
- Ability to initiate, flexibly plan, organise and prioritise a broad range of complex activities or programmes over time
- Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations including staff and /or organisational problems, child abuse, family breakdown, serious mental health problems, and to cope with verbal abuse, aggression from service users, families etc. and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from clients
- Competent IT skills (e.g. MS Office, keyboard skills)
- Ability to write coherent, clear and relevant reports
- Able to record and report on clinical information as required
- Ability to develop content and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Up to date knowledge of research and national guidance relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group
- Record of providing training and supervision to others
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to be flexible and adapt approach according to need
- Ability to accommodate disruption to plans owing to the often crisis nature of CAMHS work
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service
Desirable- Advanced keyboard skills including competency in use of IT packages e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SPSS
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer detailsEmployer name: East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Tower Hamlets CAMHS, 18 Greatorex Street, London, E1 5NF, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
