Specialist CYP ND & LD Crisis Clinical Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Enfield, EN2 6NZ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	11 Nov 2026
Closing date:	11 Dec 2026

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Summary

This role is part of exciting new developments across North Central London aimed at enhancing the existing mental health crisis services for neurodiverse young people and their families where there is diagnosis or suspected neurodevelopmental concern and/or a learning disability, with the aim of avoiding unnecessary admissions to mental health inpatient units and reducing the length of hospital stays. As part of this, a Specialist Clinical Practitioner is being recruited for each of the 5 NCL boroughs – Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.

A post will be based in either Barnet Enfield or Haringey within the CAMHS Adolescent Outreach Teams, who work with CYP with acute, complex and chronic mental health difficulties. The post holder will also interface with local sector inpatient units, acute paediatric wards and Emergency Departments, Home Treatment Teams, LD/ASD Keyworker services and CAMHS neurodevelopmental pathways. All with the aim of enhancing the local community support offer, improving complex discharge planning, and reducing the length of inpatient says for neurodiverse young people and their families where there is diagnosis or suspected neurodevelopmental concern and/or a learning disability.

To provide comprehensive, specialist mental health assessments, including risk assessments, of young people with, or with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning disability, who are considered at risk of escalating into mental health crisis and/or inpatient admission. To undertake LD and neurodevelopmental assessments in line with AAOT assessment offer and provision; and to support other AAOT clinicians with screening and assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions, maintaining standards and reliability of assessments across the team and service. To hold a caseload of CYP with complex, high-risk mental health needs where there is also a diagnosis or suspected neurodevelopmental challenges. To act as case manager for these cases, and to provide specialist, adjusted interventions as required, including PBS-based interventions, psychological therapies and family work. To offer joint working to other AAOT clinicians, to support their work with CYP and families where there is neurodevelopmental difference and/or LD. To work as part of the AAOT MDT to think about the clinical needs of CYP who may be on the local DSR, or who may present in crisis and require a psychiatric inpatient admission.

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.

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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind

• We Are Respectful

• We Work Together

• We Keep Things Simple

• We Empower

• We Are Proudly Diverse

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.

Provide specialist consultation to other CAMHS clinicians and professionals working with CYP and families with or with suspected neurodevelopmental differences and/or LD, to aid developing a shared formulation and system-based thinking to complex case management, and to support development of appropriately adjusted management, care, crisis and safety plans. Provide specialist case consultation to Paediatric Mental Health Teams, inpatient units, Home Treatment Teams, Keyworker Services etc to support intensive crisis responses, aid complex discharge processes and to reduce admissions and length of inpatient stays. Attend and feed into the local Dynamic Support Register (DSR) across each borough. Providing treatments and behavioural interventions, to colleagues within CAMHS, other professionals and other agencies/organisations working in the field of Neurodevelopmental disorder/LD.

This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Nov 2026

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