CAMHS Practitioner

Southwark CAMHS are seeking to recruit a Band 6 CAMHS practitioner with strong clinical skills. This is a fixed-term full-time post available for 12 months (secondments welcomed), based within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service. Within the Neurodevelopmental Service, you will work alongside the full multi-disciplinary team, to support the service and ensure the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. You will be responsible forensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be in the medium of emails and telephone calls.

If you are:

o registered with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

OR

o have an accredited professional training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, art therapy, or further training in evidence-based psychosocial treatment for children

AND

o have experience of delivering mental health services to children and young people with neurodevelopmental disability in diverse community settings

we would welcome your application!

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist clinical role within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS) which is ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be in the form of emails and telephone calls. You will be supported in this role through close working with the Clinical Service Lead, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Senior Systemic Family Therapist, and Consultant Psychiatrist.

Additional tasks to ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS will be to take part in initiatives to help address the significant waiting lists in NDS such as Keeping In Touch calls.

As the CAMHS practitioner in the team, the successful applicant will also be asked to assist in other business critical tasks as they emerge.

To contribute to assuring service quality by employing specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of neurodevelopment and mental health theories for children and adolescents.

To maintain high standards of professional clinical practice when supporting the children and young people under the care of the service. To be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Job description

Job responsibilities

Continued main duties

• To contribute to training, research, and audit as well as interpret complex data to develop understanding of self and others in relation to child and adolescent mental health disorders.
• To contribute to the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to quality assure best practice and the implementation of NICE guidelines across teams.
• To contribute to service development.

Please see attached job description and person specification for details

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist Or
• oFirst level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. Or
• oFirst level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.

Desirable

• Familiarity with therapeutic approaches commonly used in CAMHS eg CBT, Family Therapy

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs.
• oExperience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity.
• oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary setting.
• oExperience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases.

Desirable

• oExperience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies.

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

• oSpecialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs.
• oKnowledge of key legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues.
• oAwareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training.
• oSkills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes.
• oAbility to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains.

Desirable

• oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

4th Floor | Sunshine House | 27 Peckham Road |London | SE5 8UH

London

SE5 8UH

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334-CLI-6445675