CAMHS Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Building Bridges)

The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) have been awarded dedicated funding to develop co-produced community engagement work to seek to redress barriers to accessing treatment by minoritised youth. This role is to lead the project, 'Building Bridges', for an initial 18 months., The post holder will work closely with stakeholders across local communities, expert parents and experts by experience to coproduce an approach to liaison that increases the accessibility of MCCAED to local young people and their families.

They will manage an assistant psychologist and support them to liaise with local schools to implement outreach work with young people, staff and parents.

The post holder will deliver this program with the assistant psychologist. They will work with design/animation agencies as appropriate to develop materials for outreach/engagement, dependent on outcomes of coproduction work.

The post holder will deliver the program to groups of young people in secondary schools in the SLaM boroughs

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. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9 to 5, giving you the very best of good work life balance. Given the nature of the role, there may be times when it is required to work early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post

Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)

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.