CAMHS Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Peckham, SE5 8UH |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7545331/334-CLI-7545331 |
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Southwark CAMHS are seeking to recruit a Band 6 CAMHS Duty Clinician with strong clinical skills. This is a substantive, full-time post, based within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service. Within the Neurodevelopmental Service, you will work alongside the full multi-disciplinary team, to support the service and ensure the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. You will be responsible forensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be through the medium of emails and telephone calls.
If you are:
• registered with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
OR
• have an accredited professional training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, art therapy, or further training in evidence-based psychosocial treatment for children
AND
• have experience of delivering mental health services to children and young people with neurodevelopmental disability in diverse community settings
we would welcome your application!
· To provide a specialist clinical role within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service(NDS) which is ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be in the form of emails and telephone calls. You will be supported in this role through close working with the Clinical Service Lead, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Senior Systemic Family Therapist, and Consultant Psychiatrist(s).
· Additional tasks to ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS will be to take part in initiatives to help address the significant waiting lists in NDS such as “Keeping In Touch” calls.
· As the Duty clinician in the team, the successful applicant will also be asked to assist in other business critical tasks as they emerge.
· Tocontributetoassuringservicequalitybyemployingspecialistknowledgeandbreadthof understanding of neurodevelopment and mental health theories for children and adolescents.
· To maintain high standards of professional clinical practice when supporting the children and young people under the care of the service. To be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills ofothers.
· To contribute to training, research, and audit as well as interpret complex data to develop understanding of self and others in relation to child and adolescent mental health disorders.
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, flexible working and support a range of flexible 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 benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Please see attached document
For further details, please contact:
Name
Nathan Appasamy
Job title
Clinical Service Lead, Southwark CAMHS NDS
Email address
Nathan.appasamy@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number
02032288416
This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025