We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the position of Mental Health Champion - Paediatric Acute Setting, to join our Paediatric Senior Medical Team.

The postholder would work 2x PA's per week (8 hours) and this role would be perfect for a medical professional seeking to expand or commence a specialist role within the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provision., The national CYP Mental Health and CYP Transformation Programme teams jointly released funding in 2023/24 to enable systems to come together to collectively support CYP with mental health needs who present in acute paediatric settings, as well as supporting the clinical teams that manage these patients. One of the initiatives NHSE is funding is the establishment of Mental Health Champion in each provider that admits children and young people by Autumn 2023/24 to ensure that all children are appropriately supported in paediatric settings, with parity of esteem for mental health.

The Trust is expected to use the funding to establish at least one Mental Health Champion at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust. The Trust will recruit to the role a senior clinician who can admit children and young people to a paediatric ward, and/or who holds clinical responsibility for children and young people in acute settings in the provider that admits paediatric patients. This is likely to be a Paediatrician, senior paediatric nurse, or senior paediatric allied health professional.

These Mental Health Champion roles have long been advocated for by NCEPOD, RCPCH and others, and have existing equivalents in other paediatric priority areas, such as the named Safeguarding Lead and Diabetes Clinical Lead. They are not intended to provide a greater share of clinical care but to carve dedicated space for a lead professional to drive vital work forward around.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.