CAMHS Practitioner

Southwark Assertive Outreach Service (CAMHS) is seeking to recruit an innovative CAMHS practitioner with developed clinical skills to work in its multi-disciplinary Adolescent Team (MDT), in order to cover a secondment in the service. The team provides assessment, crisis management support, and evidence-based therapies to young people aged up to 18 with complex mental health difficulties including depression, emerging psychosis, OCD, PTSD and social anxiety. The post holder will work as a specialist clinician in Southwark Assertive Outreach Team to meet the needs of adolescents up to age 18 with complex mental health problems who will require urgent assessment and stepped up interventions (e.g. 7 day follow-up, crisis management support and at times treatment in their own home or community). Service and team responsibilities: You will carry out mental health & risk assessments with adolescents in your care and work under the supervision of the team managers and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively. You will work with other CAMHS practitioners from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individuals are co-ordinated efficiently across agencies. This post is a clinical post and the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice. The post holder will work to provide rapid response and intervention for patients in crisis., As a CAMHS practitioner in the Assertive Outreach Team, you will work alongside the MDT and contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatment. You will act as a care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the MDT. You will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of young people referred to the service, as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks. You will be responsible for a clinical caseload, involved in assessment, care planning and offer evidence-based interventions for young people with support from the wider MDT. There are opportunities for joint working with a range of professionals across the service and for contributing to group work.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services. Working closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. Our scope is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training

We have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

• Generous pay, pensions and leave.SLaM offers a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on role and length of service.
• Work-life balance.SLaM offersflexible working and supports part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development.SLaM provides 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.SLaM staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation.SLaM staffbenefits fromkeyworker housing, available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts.SLaM staff are eligiblefor discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though health service discount websites.
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services.
• Wellbeing events.
• Long service awards.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season ticket loan.
• Childcare vouchers.
• Staff restaurants.