Family Therapist Adolescent Treatment Team

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 February 2026

The post holder will be a Family Therapist responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people who are referred to the team.

You will carry out risk assessments with children and young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior Family Therapist to manage these situations effectively.

You will be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.

You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 60% of your time is spent in clinical practice.

The team holds smaller caseloads due to high levels of risk and complexity; there is supervision and MDT to help manage the work.

• This role is for the Adolescent Treatment Team, a specialist team within Lewisham CAMHS, which provides stabilisation, formulation, treatment and discharge for high-risk complex mental health presentations for children in Lewisham.
• The successful candidate will be a Family Therapist responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people referred to the team.
• Carry out risk assessments with children and young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and Principal Family Therapist to manage these situations effectively.
• Be part of the daily duty rota for the service, screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.
• Work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. Be a member of several internal and external professional networks to ensure care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively.
• This post is mostly client facing to manage the high risk and complex presentations of the young people.

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 ’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is 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 supporting a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, opportunities to progress your career with programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, access to competitive car leasing deals.
• Accommodation, keyworker housing available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, discounts up to 10% from various retail brands via the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

• Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in setting and reviewing therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients.
• Provide Family Therapy interventions to a small number of children and families with complex mental health problems.
• Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS and professional recording standards.
• Collect and collate information about individual clinical activity…