Job summary
- Main area
- MENTAL HEALTH
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 1.0WTE
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7545331
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sunshine House
- Town
- Peckham
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
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 for ensuring 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!
Main duties of the job
· 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.
· To contribute to assuring service quality by employing specialist knowledge and breadth of 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 of others.
· 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached document
For further details, please contact:
Name
Nathan Appasamy
Job title
Clinical Service Lead, Southwark CAMHS NDS
Email address
Telephone number
02032288416
Person specification
Qulifcations/Registrations
Essential criteria
- • Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist. OR • First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. Desirable Requirements OR • First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. • Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity. • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting. • Experience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases. • Experience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
- • Specialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. • Knowledge of key legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues. • Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training. • Skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes. • Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. • Ability to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials. • Ability to work as an independent practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision. • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning. • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nathan Appasamy
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead, Southwark CAMHS NDS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032281416
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