Clinical Project Lead (Super Youth Hub)

Hackney Education provides a range of services to support the education of children, young people, and adults in our inner London borough. Hackney is one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving one of London’s best places to live and work. Within our diverse borough we serve a wide range of children and young people. We have a particular focus on supporting less advantaged families: Hackney figures in the 10% most deprived boroughs in England on a number of measures.

Hackney Education’s key priority is to improve the life chances of every child, young person, and learner: making Hackney the most forward-looking education system in the UK, where schools, settings and partners provide an exciting environment which ensures inclusion and success for everyone. We see our borough as being one of the best places in the country for young people to grow, learn, develop, and achieve –and one of the best places for colleagues to work and thrive in our education system.

Job title Clinical Project Lead (Super Youth Hub)

Salary PO8, £60,261 to £61,347 pro-rata

Terms and Conditions Part time (0.5 FTE, 18 hours), Fixed term/Secondment (2 years)

• Are you a qualified clinician who is passionate about using your knowledge to make a real difference to the lives of young people in Hackney & the City of London?
• Are you keen to work on an innovative fixed term pilot working across health and wellbeing services in City and Hackney to offer a thoughtful and joined up approach to provide early preventative support to young people and to provide specialist psychological input to enable the rest of the system to support them?
• Are you committed to working across-agency and system-wide to engage young people and communities from all backgrounds?
• Do you have strong partnership working and engagement skills and existing knowledge and experience of working with Children and Families?
• Are interested in working in an advisory role with outreach capacity and with wider system partners to create whole system change to improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people?
• Are you keen to use your expertise to advise on the training needs and content of training for staff working directly with these Children and Families across the Early Help system?
• Are you a critical, whole systems thinker who would be capable of drawing out recommendations from learning to feed into a borough wide strategy?

This is an exciting opportunity to play an integral role in a new pilot piece of work that aims to provide young people with more autonomy over their support needs, and improve their access to the full scope of health and wellbeing services, ensuring that they can get the right support, at the right time, with the right person, in the right place.

The postholder will support the strategic vision and direction to a borough wide response to reducing health inequalities and improving the health and lives of young people, through learning about improving and embedding support at an early stage.

This work is being developed through the CAMHS Alliance. The role will sit within Hackney Education but work across the system, working with Public Health, Young Hackney, VCSOs, Mental Health Services, Primary Care, Early Help teams as well as children and young people.

The job holder will work within the CAMHS Alliance PMO, as part of the ‘Super Youth Hub’ Operational Management team.

The post holder will have the following aims:

• Providing effective joint working between agencies in Early Help and Health
• Planning and delivering some clinics alongside a multi-agency team at the Super Youth Hub
• Assume clinical risk for high-risk cases, lead and participate in case-management meetings
• Hold meetings with Clinical leads at CAMHS and CFS Clinical Services to discuss complex cases and pathways
• Identifying how to strengthen the support across the system (e.g., training and development of the Early Help system to support these cases) for children and families and embed learning from the pilot work
• Feeding in learning and insights from the pilot into the development of a strategy to support children and young people around health and wellbeing

The funding for this post is fixed term and has come from Northeast London ICB Outcomes Funding for System Transformation.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Sophie McElroy (Sophie.Mcelroy@hackney.gov.uk).

Interested?

To apply, please visit our website via the button below.

Closing date: 22:59, Wednesday, 27^th March 2024.

Hackney Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. As this role involves regulated activity, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued,