Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Nurses, Social Workers, and Allied Health Professionals to join the Children and Young People Single Point of Access (CYP SPoA). Based across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, our well-established team is known for being supportive, friendly, and welcoming.

The CYP SPoA is responsible for the triage and initial assessment of referrals for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. We work collaboratively to ensure timely, effective support for those in need.

We are currently recruiting for roles in within the triage team and are seeking practitioners with:

• Experience in mental health and working with children, young people, and families
• A strong understanding of complex needs and risk management
• A background in mental health or social care, with a commitment to multidisciplinary collaboration

If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
Coordinate the day to day running of the SPA team, including screening new referrals and allocating these to the access clinicians. Complete telephone triages/screening for young people themselves, telephone risk assessment and management plans. Complete brief assessments and interventions for young people referred to the CAMHS Division. Manage and maintain clear waiting lists for the clinical teams that sit within the CAMHS Division. Ensure the safe delivery of Key KPI's and access to treatment standards. Comply with the service requirements for the completion of routine outcome measures. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients. To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.

Where appropriate, to implement a range of brief psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.

About us
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 will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology

Why NLFT?
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.

Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-8377249
Closing date: 18 November 2026

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• Professional qualification including: System Psychotherapist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Clinical Psychologist, Counsellor, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist
• Live professional registration with relevant professional body i.e. NMC, HCPC

Desirable

• Qualification in core therapy training, i.e CBT, DBT, MBT...

Experience and knowledge
Essential

• Minimum of one year experience of working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
• Experience of assessing risk and creating risk management plans with children and adolescents.
• Experience of direct - time limited clinical work within a CAMHS setting.
• Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.
• Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
• Knowledge of relevant research, evidence base and therapeutic modalities.
• Experience of working with parents/carers of Adolescents.

Desirable

• Experience of IT administration systems.
• Experience of contributing to intake-coordination and waiting list management.
• Experience of developing service user participation.
• Experience of presenting the work of a service to other professionals.
• Experience of working on call or on duty within teams.
• Knowledge of statutory and voluntary sector services and the increasing demands facing mental health providers.
• Experience of completing risk assessments over the phone.

Skills and abilities
Essential

• Specific skills that will enable candidate to fulfil job role, including IT skills (must be detailed)
• Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and clinical knowledge and experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
• Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload, including scheduling and maintaining a pattern of clinical and non-clinical work.
• Good literary and report writing skills.
• Time management skills.
• Good administrative skills.
• Good liaison skills.
• Good IT skills.
• Excellent general communication skills.

Personal qualities
Essential

• Self-motivated. Flexible in approach and outlook. Ability to work as part of a team. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Ability to contain anxiety in others. Adaptable. Good interpersonal skills. Reliable. Trustworthy. Physical effort: capacity to sit in constrained position for extended periods.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details
Single Point of Access Operations Manager: Georgia Macken, Georgia.Macken@nhs.net, 02087023111

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.