CAMHS Specialist Practitioner / Training Facilitator (N&S EPEC)
| Posting date: | 24 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7197737/334-CLI-7197737 |
Summary
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills within a National and Specialist CAMHS service. The Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) Team deliverers evidenced based, peer led, manualised, parenting interventions; locally, nationally and internationally within a range of health, mental health social care and community settings.
Specialist parenting/early help/children’s centre, supervision and project management knowledge skills and experience are integral to this role. These will support the delivery, implementation and development of our evidence-based parenting interventions and enable us to continue to provide a high-quality service to local parents/young people and children. In addition to our core programmes ‘Being a Parent’, ‘Baby and Us’ and ‘Living with Teenagers’ we also offer and are developing our Dads specific groups/support and offer specialist parenting programmes. The specialist programmes support parents with mental health and post-natal illness and parents whose children have additional needs predominantly neurodevelopmental.
There is also a variety of opportunities to be involved in research and development within this team.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative, forward-thinking practitioner who has a passion for working with a peer led model and in early prevention work for children, young people and adults. You will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to parents needs flexibly.
This established post provides parenting programmes within a national and specialist setting. The core role is to support all aspects of delivery and development of these evidenced based, peer led parenting programmes; locally, nationally. This work will also influence and support the development of our international work.
Including:
• Supporting/managing contracts for commissioning of EPEC groups,
• Supervision of peer facilitators of a range of EPEC groups across the terms
• Delivering/developing training for Parent Group Leaders and professionals both locally and nationally
• Understanding and modelling EPEC principles throughout the role.
• To actively participate in service development and patient/carer and public involvement
• Working with outcome measures collection supporting the completion and dissemination of these alongside the research team
About our locations:
Our office is at the Michael Rutter Centre is based on the Maudsley Hospital site (trust headquarters). Our trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.
We are currently working a hybrid of working from home online and working in the office following Covid-19. We also work at local children centres/community spaces as part of the delivery of our programmes.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8 to 6, giving you the very best of good work life balance. Where we have evenings and weekend groups approx. 1-2 per term availability to work these are desirable and negotiable. The role is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from those considering part time options. There is a requirement of working 2 days on-site and the working pattern needs to include either a Monday or a Friday.
• EPEC involves training local parents to facilitate peer-led parenting groups in community locations, such as schools, children’s centres, faith and cultural centres. The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing EPEC across South London, and increasingly more widely. This will include (i) running EPEC training courses for parents’ (ii) training practitioners across the full range of disciplines involved in working with children, young people and families to implement EPEC ; iii) offering supervision to EPEC trained practitioners and supervisors, (iv) being responsible for the overall management of the programme within a borough or area, (v) being responsible for supporting allocated national sites, (vi) supporting evaluation and data collection across the service, contributing to evidence base and ongoing research.
• In addition, The post holder will support the development and implementation of: (i) further applications of the EPEC Model across mental health, health, social care, education and other children’s services; (ii) methods for integrating the Model with other evidence based interventions and national guidelines and standards (iii) further methods to effectively disseminate and support the implementation the EPEC Model through further training courses, associated training and supervision. The post holder will also support the work of senior colleagues in their negotiations with organisations commissioning the Centre’s activities.
• The post requires an understanding of the EPEC Model, evidence-based parenting interventions and parent education models, knowledge of other evidence-based interventions as well as experience of working closely with managers and practitioners to support the development of effective services for children and families.
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Jul 2025
This post is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills within a National and Specialist CAMHS service. The Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) Team deliverers evidenced based, peer led, manualised, parenting interventions; locally, nationally and internationally within a range of health, mental health social care and community settings.
Specialist parenting/early help/children’s centre, supervision and project management knowledge skills and experience are integral to this role. These will support the delivery, implementation and development of our evidence-based parenting interventions and enable us to continue to provide a high-quality service to local parents/young people and children. In addition to our core programmes ‘Being a Parent’, ‘Baby and Us’ and ‘Living with Teenagers’ we also offer and are developing our Dads specific groups/support and offer specialist parenting programmes. The specialist programmes support parents with mental health and post-natal illness and parents whose children have additional needs predominantly neurodevelopmental.
There is also a variety of opportunities to be involved in research and development within this team.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative, forward-thinking practitioner who has a passion for working with a peer led model and in early prevention work for children, young people and adults. You will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to parents needs flexibly.
This established post provides parenting programmes within a national and specialist setting. The core role is to support all aspects of delivery and development of these evidenced based, peer led parenting programmes; locally, nationally. This work will also influence and support the development of our international work.
Including:
• Supporting/managing contracts for commissioning of EPEC groups,
• Supervision of peer facilitators of a range of EPEC groups across the terms
• Delivering/developing training for Parent Group Leaders and professionals both locally and nationally
• Understanding and modelling EPEC principles throughout the role.
• To actively participate in service development and patient/carer and public involvement
• Working with outcome measures collection supporting the completion and dissemination of these alongside the research team
About our locations:
Our office is at the Michael Rutter Centre is based on the Maudsley Hospital site (trust headquarters). Our trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.
We are currently working a hybrid of working from home online and working in the office following Covid-19. We also work at local children centres/community spaces as part of the delivery of our programmes.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8 to 6, giving you the very best of good work life balance. Where we have evenings and weekend groups approx. 1-2 per term availability to work these are desirable and negotiable. The role is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from those considering part time options. There is a requirement of working 2 days on-site and the working pattern needs to include either a Monday or a Friday.
• EPEC involves training local parents to facilitate peer-led parenting groups in community locations, such as schools, children’s centres, faith and cultural centres. The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing EPEC across South London, and increasingly more widely. This will include (i) running EPEC training courses for parents’ (ii) training practitioners across the full range of disciplines involved in working with children, young people and families to implement EPEC ; iii) offering supervision to EPEC trained practitioners and supervisors, (iv) being responsible for the overall management of the programme within a borough or area, (v) being responsible for supporting allocated national sites, (vi) supporting evaluation and data collection across the service, contributing to evidence base and ongoing research.
• In addition, The post holder will support the development and implementation of: (i) further applications of the EPEC Model across mental health, health, social care, education and other children’s services; (ii) methods for integrating the Model with other evidence based interventions and national guidelines and standards (iii) further methods to effectively disseminate and support the implementation the EPEC Model through further training courses, associated training and supervision. The post holder will also support the work of senior colleagues in their negotiations with organisations commissioning the Centre’s activities.
• The post requires an understanding of the EPEC Model, evidence-based parenting interventions and parent education models, knowledge of other evidence-based interventions as well as experience of working closely with managers and practitioners to support the development of effective services for children and families.
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Jul 2025