Child Mental Health Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,448 - £47,965 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE15 5LJ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6247074/334-CLI-6247074 |
Summary
CAMHS Practitioner in Specialist team for children in care
Our team are recruiting a new colleague to join our lively, committed, friendly and supportive CAMHS multi-disciplinary team. We would welcome your energy and enthusiasm and hope you have had some experience in CAMHS. You will have an interest in working with children and young people who have endured adversity, maltreatment and trauma. We are seeking someone with a good therapeutic skill set, which can be developed further (with good training opportunities) in this therapy focussed setting. The rest of the team are passionate about providing an excellent service to our children and young people in LA care.
Carelink is a specialist multi-disciplinary Tier 3 mental health team, working in close partnership with Southwark Social Care and Child Health.
The post-holder will undertake CAMHS assessments of children and young people up to age 18 with a formulation and diagnosis, and recommendations for treatment. Also offer treatment packages to C&YP and support to their carers and/or adoptive parents
The post-holder will have a therapeutic caseload, offering therapy to Looked After and Adopted Children with complex needs including experience of complex trauma and attachment difficulties. You will also be working with their parents/ carers. You will have the ability to deliver a range of interventions for children and young people. Close working relationships with members of the team and partnership agencies e.g. Children’s Social Care, Child Health, Education and others is essential. You must be qualified in an appropriate mental health professional modality and have current registration with the relevant professional body (detailed in person specification).
You must demonstrate an interest in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work and be familiar with evidence-based practice. There are excellent opportunities in our NHS Trust for CPD, in-service teaching and specialist supervision. Carelink forms part of Southwark CAMHS, with good links with a range of other specialist teams and services for children and families across the borough, you must be able to work independently and have good clinical/therapeutic and case management skills.
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. We support a range of flexible working 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 benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the 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
We look forward to receiving your application.
All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration
with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health & Care Professional's Council (HPC/HCPC),
Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and
Psychotherapy (BACP)
Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and
adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills
Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care.
Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment.
A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group,
individual and family work, multidisciplinary work, clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS.
Assessment of risk and management of risk factors.
The principles of clinical governance and practice.
Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions.
Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking.
Ability to work within a changing environment. Ability to be ‘reflective’ in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection.
Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024