Clinical Lead, Adolescent Treatment Team | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Lewisham, SE13 6QJ |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7205030/334-CLI-7205030 |
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We are seeking to recruit an experienced Clinical Lead to join the Adolescent Treatment Team (ATT), a well-established arm of Lewisham CAMHS that offer stabilisation, formulation, and treatment of young people with mental health problems that are severe, complex, and/or associated with high levels of risk. The team also provides the early intervention in service for young people with psychosis and bipolar disorder in the borough.
We are a multi-disciplinary, dynamic, resourceful, caring and supportive team with a small, protected caseload of young people with the highest level of need, including severe depression and anxiety disorders, complex trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and emotional instability. Many have previously had or are at risk of a psychiatric admission, and we work closely with inpatient services to enable continuity of care and successful step-down to the community post-discharge. ATT use teamwork to offer the most effective service provision in a supportive and respectful environment whilst still being a fun base.
We wish to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to job share the clinical and managerial running of the team offering specialist direct work, supervision, planning, advice, liaison and development. As the team manage complex mental health needs experience of working with The Mental Health Act, The Mental Capacity Act and medication regimes will be valuable.
• To provide clinical leadership in managing several high risk and complex mental health presentations in vulnerable children.
• To offer a limited amout of assessment/direct work to support the team's workload.
• To provide managerial and clinical supervision to team members.
• To provide leadership within the team along with other seniors developing the service to meet the needs of the vulnerable young people in Lewisham.
• To contribute to senior management meetings within the wider service.
• To ensure the governance in the team is maintained.
• To ensure key aspects of team function such as safeguarding and record keeping are met.
SLAM is the largest mental health trust in the UK and offers a wide range of National Specialists and local provisions in South London. Working for Lewisham CAMHS gives access to many of the dynamic and innovative opportunities linked to the Trust.
Lewisham is an inner-city borough in South London serving a population of almost 300,000 people, 23 % falling in the 0-19 age group. Lewisham is highly diverse and proudly represents many different cultures, needs and backgrounds.
Lewisham CAMHS has several teams providing services to specific need; the ATT team has been established over 20 years serving the most complex and high-risk children in Lewisham. There is close liaison with other CAMHS teams and the wider specialist services. Working within ATT can be challenging and demanding but there are resources in place such as supervision, case discussion, the MDT, joint work, training, clear referral criteria, systems management and workable caseloads to support functioning. There is a strong team identity and ethos, we strive to do our best for our young people.
This successful candidate will lead the service provision for young people presenting with mental health problems that are severe, complex, and associated with high levels of risk. This will include high-quality assessment, formulation, and evidence-based therapy to young people and families. The role will also include consultation to support the team and the wider Lewisham CAMHS service. The candidate will also hold a small number of care coordination cases to support with stabilisation, risk management, and multi-agency care planning.
The role also involves ensuring the effective working of the team and providing senior duty cover to support team members in managing risk and complex presentations. There will be supervision and apraisals required for team members. The post-holder will be the senior leader in the team that oversees clinical activities and processes, working together to drive service improvement and create a psychological safe environment in which team members can flourish. Engagement in research will be actively encouraged, and the candidate would be supported to undertake training and professional development in line with their appraisal.
This advert closes on Thursday 10 Jul 2025