Clinical Team Lead

Overview

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner in the Wellbeing Hub within CAMHS, you lead clinical care at the service front door, ensuring safe, timely referrals and robust governance. You support colleagues with complex decision-making, risk assessment, and crisis management, while coordinating care planning with a multidisciplinary team. This role shapes access to appropriate services for children and young people and contributes to a culture of safety and continuous improvement. You will work closely with families and professionals to deliver compassionate, patient-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership within the team and support the day-to-day triage and assessment of referrals
• Conduct comprehensive triage to determine urgency and needs, prioritising based on risk
• Gather full mental health history and psychosocial information for assessment
• Formulate risk assessments and act on safeguarding, self-harm, or harm to others concerns
• Deliver immediate crisis intervention and de-escalation, and develop future crisis management plans
• Explore pathways and coordinate access and management across CAMHS services (Getting Help, Getting More Help, Specialist Services)
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and maintain clear communication with families
• Undertake line management and clinical supervision

Key requirements

• Current professional registration with a recognized body (NMC, HCPC, or Social Work England)
• Evidence of CPD and post-registration training in the relevant service area
• Experience in supervising staff/students and managing a caseload of children and young people with complex needs
• Knowledge of relevant interventions and trust policies

• leadership
• effective communication
• collaboration
• triage and risk-based prioritisation
• crisis intervention and de-escalation
• care planning and pathway development within CAMHS

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