CAMHS Principal Clinical Practitioner (N&S OPD EPEC)

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

· Senior leadership role within Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support, contributing to national and international dissemination of evidence-based parenting interventions and ongoing research.

· Portfolio of work coordinating, contributing, and leading on interventions, implementation, and dissemination

· Senior leadership role with Empowering Parents Empowering Communities within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, providing guidance and supervision to clinicians within the service. Working with senior leadership group to ensure work with national, international, and local services is fulfilled according to service level agreements, licenses, and work plans with sufficient funding.

· Use understanding of complex and changing circumstances within social care, national health service and voluntary sector to support work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support to remain accessible, appropriate and acceptable.

· Promote the work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support internally within the Trust, nationally and internationally, presenting at conferences, delivering training and through publications., · To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service for the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC)

· To work closely with head of the Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure EPEC has sufficient financial, staffing, and other resources to fulfil its national, regional, and local service requirements.

· To work with the Heads of Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure that activity is safe, acceptable, and effective, gathering, and collating evidence and recommending/implementing service review and improvements as necessary.

· To contribute and support day to day leadership of the Centre and its work including responsibility for allocation and review of work and job plans, oversight of clinical and operational supervision, appraisals and review for team members, students, and trainees.

· To contribute and support development and day to day dissemination of programmes of the Centre for Parent and Child Support

The Centre for Parent and Child Support is a busy, successful, and influential unit for the development and dissemination of Family Partnership Model, Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and Helping Families Programme. The team are multi-disciplinary, made up of peer support workers, administrators, parenting practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, clinical psychologists with shared belief in being able to improve outcomes for parents, children, and families. We work closely with parents and colleagues to co-design and test interventions.

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.

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 with the aim of giving you the best ofgood 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) .