CAMHS Practitioner-Spring Team | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 October 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,419 - £55,046 per annum incl. of HCAs
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 November 2025
Location:	London, SW9 7HH
Company:	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7462362/334-CLI-7462362

Summary

Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Spring Team is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced CAMHS Practitioner, who has an interest in working with children and adolescents that present with mental health and significant behavioural difficulties.

The Spring Team works closely with the Lambeth local authority at Tier 2 level, offering assessment and brief interventions to children, young people and their families. We are specifically interested in staff with additional training in evidence based therapeutic interventions.








You will need to 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. Social Services, Education and others is essential. You must demonstrate an interest in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work and be familiar with evidence-based practice. There are excellent opportunities for CPD, in service teaching and supervision within the team and the trust.

You must be able to work independently and have good clinical/therapeutic and case management skills. Lambeth is an inner city, ethnically diverse community so a good understanding of diversity issues is important.

Lambeth is a London borough with a population of more than 318,000, of which 63% of residents describe their ethnicity as other than White British & approximately 145 languages are spoken in the borough. There are established Caribbean & Irish communities with newer populations of West African, Portuguese & South American residents.

Lambeth CAMHS employs staff from a variety of disciplines, including creative arts, child psychology, psychiatry, nursing, psychotherapy & family therapy. The service is organised into three sections & delivered from a number of community & hospital sites across the borough. Teams include a generic multidisciplinary Tier 3 services, for Children and Adolescents, as well as a number of specialist teams & services including Youth Offending Team, Children Looked After, Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS) and the Neurodevelopmental Team.



The post holder will be a Care Coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people whom are referred to the team.

You will carry out CAMHS Assessments, Risk Assessments, ADHD Assessments, Care Planning and Treatment with children & young people and their families routinely. You will work under the supervision of Clinical Specialists and Clinical Service Lead of Spring to learn and manage caseloads and situations effectively.

You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice. It is important to note that while Agile Working is policy, you may be required to be face to face every day.






This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025