Senior Clinical Practitioner - Onwards & Upwards

This is an 12 month fixed-term contract. The salary will include an additional 10% Recruitment and Retention bonus.

As Senior Clinical Practitioner, you will:

Embed Barnets mentalisation approach and the Anna Freud Building Bridges framework within the Onwards & Upwards service, strengthening multiagency relationships and promoting reflective, psychologicallyinformed practice.

Provide specialist clinical oversight to staff involved in transition planning for children in care and careexperienced adults.

Offer mental health consultations to Social Workers and Personal Advisors, supporting early identification of emerging mental health needs.

Facilitate reflective team supervision, clinical consultations and risk formulation, building staff confidence and resilience when working with complexity.

Coordinate and support appropriate referrals to mental health and community services.

Provide specialist clinical input into Barnets Joint Transitions Tracking Panel.

In discussion with the Assistant Head of Service, hold a small clinical caseload, ensuring direct clinical insight informs wider service practice.

You will be a qualified and experienced mental health practitioner with:

A strong grounding in traumainformed, mentalisationbased and systemic practice.

Experience working with careexperienced adolescents, care leavers or young adults with complex mental health needs.

Confidence providing clinical consultation, supervision and advice within multidisciplinary environments.

A collaborative approach and ability to work effectively across Childrens Services, Mental Health and Adult Social Care.

A commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable young people as they transition into adulthood.

Barnet Council is seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Clinical Practitioner to join our Onwards & Upwards (O&U) service, working with careexperienced young people and care leavers as they transition into adulthood. This is a unique opportunity to play a strategic and handson clinical role, embedding traumainformed and mentalisationbased practice across Childrens Social Care, Mental Health Services and Adult Social Care. The role has a primary focus on the mental health needs of young people aged 1625, including care leavers and unaccompanied asylumseeking young people (UASC), particularly those who are unlikely to meet Adult Mental Health thresholds or are disengaged from CAMHS. You will be based within our Onwards and Upwards Office, working closely with Social Workers, Personal Advisors and partner agencies to promote emotional wellbeing, stability and improved longterm outcomes.