CAMHS Practitioner | South and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Southwark Child and Adolescent Service (CAMHS) is seeking to recruit an innovative CAMHS practitioner with developed clinical skills to work in its multi-disciplinary Adolescent Team (MDT) for a secondment in the service.

Our dynamic and supportive MDT consists of psychiatry, clinical psychology, nursing, therapist and social work professionals.

The team provides assessment and evidence-based therapies to young people aged 12 to 18 with complex mental health difficulties including depression, emerging psychosis, OCD, PTSD and social anxiety.

The team has close links with Youth Offending Services, an assertive outreach team and National and Specialist Services.

The team also works in close partnership with social care, education and local third sector services and is committed to providing high-quality, collaborative evidence-based interventions.

A well developed culture of innovation exists within CAMHS and SLaM, and team members are involved in both research and service development projects.

SLaM has an excellent support structure for clinicians interested in conducting research and quality improvement initiatives.

The team benefits from strong academic links and regular CPD opportunities.

As a CAMHS practitioner in the Adolescent Team, you will work alongside the MDT and contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatment.

You will act as a care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the MDT.

You will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of young people referred to the service, as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks.

You will be responsible for a clinical caseload, involved in assessment, care planning and offer evidence-based interventions for young people with support from the wider MDT.

There are opportunities for joint working with a range of professionals across the service and for contributing to group work.

SLaM is committed to ensuring 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.

SLaM wants you to feel like you are part of a close knit team. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that’s why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

• Generous pay, pensions and leave. SLaM offers a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on role and length of service.
• Work-life balance. SLaM offers flexible working and supports part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development. SLaM provides 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. SLaM staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation. SLaM staff benefits from keyworker housing, available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts. SLaM staff are eligible for discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though health service discount websites.

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

• Participate as a MDT member in the assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to CAMHS.
• Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality and within CAMHS and professional requirement standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.
• Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment. Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.
• Maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.
• Link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS teams in terms of referrals and joint…