CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner (N&S MCCAED OPD)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7356690/334-CLI-7356690 |
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A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
The National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic and skilled band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/Family Therapist/Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) Service. This is a full time (10 sessions) post. MCCAED is a Specialist Eating Disorders Service for young people aged up to 18 years and based at the Michael Rutter Centre at the Maudsley Hospital. The multi-disciplinary outpatient team within MCCAED consists of Family Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Psychiatrists, dietitians, and Assistant Psychologists. The service provides evidence-based outpatient treatment specifically tailored to children and young people with eating disorders. The wider MCCAED service also includes an intensive day patient service for young people with restrictive eating disorders and an outpatient service predominantly seeing young people with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.
The post holder will have a senior role within MCCAED and will be required to:
• Provide a highly specialist clinical services including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes in MCCAED.
• Provide clinical/management supervision to more junior colleagues and consultation as appropriate.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To undertake and support service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional leads and to decide how they are best achieved.
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (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. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in late 2025/early 2026)
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 9 to 5, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
• To provide assessments, formulations and interventions for clients referred to MCCAED and /or to offer supervision to other members of the team in providing those.
• Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
• To work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within MCCAED when required.
• Contribute to the introduction and monitoring the performance of new clinical systems for accepting new referrals into treatment, delivering appropriate care pathways and discharging patients from treatment.
• Contribute to ensuring that NICE recommended evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used within and across the teams to meet the needs of the client groups and ensure that staff are adequately trained and supervised to deliver these.
• Contribute to monitoring the quality of CAMHS eating disorder assessments and treatments conducted by MCCAED clinicians within the teams and the clinician’s skills in diagnosing mental disorders and formulating care plans.
• Contribute to monitoring and performance management of the clinical standards of practice of identified junior members of staff. Contribute to measuring outcome of treatment within team and make changes when necessary to maximise clinical effectiveness.
• Supervise case managers and maximise their therapeutic skills across the range of treatments required to treat young people
• Contribute to the recruitment of a safe and proficient workforce.
Management and supervision
• To provide supervision to assistant psychologists, Band 6 and Band 7 qualified practitioners
• To contribute to appraisals
• To contribute to the recruitment of trainees and other CAMHS Practitioners.
• Access own supervision.
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
• Where appropriate to liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Policy and service development
• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
Care or management of resources
• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
Teaching and Training
• To undertake occasional teaching and training of staff in the service when required.
• To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within MCCAED by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in the field.
• Where appropriate to disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies. The HEI and local procedures.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
Research and development
• To initiate, undertake, support and supervise service evaluation and audits.
• To provide expertise in a specialist research area, which will contribute to MCCAED.
• To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to Professional and Trust guidelines.
• To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with Professional and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and Standards for Continuing Professional Development’.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
• To comply with Professional ‘Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics’ and ‘Standards of Proficiency’, and ensure professional development in line with these.
• To adhere to Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
General
• To travel to other community locations as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow trust policies relating to its management.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to support others involved in such situations.
• To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or Saturday working, within the overall Job Plan.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025
The National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic and skilled band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/Family Therapist/Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) Service. This is a full time (10 sessions) post. MCCAED is a Specialist Eating Disorders Service for young people aged up to 18 years and based at the Michael Rutter Centre at the Maudsley Hospital. The multi-disciplinary outpatient team within MCCAED consists of Family Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Psychiatrists, dietitians, and Assistant Psychologists. The service provides evidence-based outpatient treatment specifically tailored to children and young people with eating disorders. The wider MCCAED service also includes an intensive day patient service for young people with restrictive eating disorders and an outpatient service predominantly seeing young people with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.
The post holder will have a senior role within MCCAED and will be required to:
• Provide a highly specialist clinical services including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes in MCCAED.
• Provide clinical/management supervision to more junior colleagues and consultation as appropriate.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To undertake and support service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional leads and to decide how they are best achieved.
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (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. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in late 2025/early 2026)
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 9 to 5, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
• To provide assessments, formulations and interventions for clients referred to MCCAED and /or to offer supervision to other members of the team in providing those.
• Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
• To work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within MCCAED when required.
• Contribute to the introduction and monitoring the performance of new clinical systems for accepting new referrals into treatment, delivering appropriate care pathways and discharging patients from treatment.
• Contribute to ensuring that NICE recommended evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used within and across the teams to meet the needs of the client groups and ensure that staff are adequately trained and supervised to deliver these.
• Contribute to monitoring the quality of CAMHS eating disorder assessments and treatments conducted by MCCAED clinicians within the teams and the clinician’s skills in diagnosing mental disorders and formulating care plans.
• Contribute to monitoring and performance management of the clinical standards of practice of identified junior members of staff. Contribute to measuring outcome of treatment within team and make changes when necessary to maximise clinical effectiveness.
• Supervise case managers and maximise their therapeutic skills across the range of treatments required to treat young people
• Contribute to the recruitment of a safe and proficient workforce.
Management and supervision
• To provide supervision to assistant psychologists, Band 6 and Band 7 qualified practitioners
• To contribute to appraisals
• To contribute to the recruitment of trainees and other CAMHS Practitioners.
• Access own supervision.
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
• Where appropriate to liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Policy and service development
• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
Care or management of resources
• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
Teaching and Training
• To undertake occasional teaching and training of staff in the service when required.
• To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within MCCAED by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in the field.
• Where appropriate to disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Record-keeping and Information Governance
• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies. The HEI and local procedures.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
Research and development
• To initiate, undertake, support and supervise service evaluation and audits.
• To provide expertise in a specialist research area, which will contribute to MCCAED.
• To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to Professional and Trust guidelines.
• To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with Professional and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and Standards for Continuing Professional Development’.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
• To comply with Professional ‘Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics’ and ‘Standards of Proficiency’, and ensure professional development in line with these.
• To adhere to Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
General
• To travel to other community locations as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow trust policies relating to its management.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to support others involved in such situations.
• To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics or Saturday working, within the overall Job Plan.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025