CAMHS Specialist or Practitioner Psychologist

Southwark CAMHS are seeking to recruit two innovative CAMHS Specialists or Practitioner Psychologists with strong clinical skills. These are 12-month fixed-term posts to cover maternity leave. Within the Neurodevelopmental Service, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team to contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. You will be responsible for your own clinical caseload and you will be involved in assessments (including diagnostic assessments for ADHD ), care planning and offering interventions for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions.

The complexity of our clinical population necessitates a broad range of professional perspectives and skills, and therefore we encourage open and eclectic discussion that is evidence and theory-informed, during assessment, formulation and planning of support. We also believe strongly that working with this community requires engagement with issues of social justice and human rights, and that our clinical work should always be informed by these ideas.

We offer ongoing training and development in a range of therapeutic modalities relevant to the client group, as well as supervision and leadership skills.,

• To provide a specialist clinical service within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS).


• To provide assessment, formulation and evidence based treatment for children with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health conditions.


• To help provide a psychological framework to inform the multidisciplinary care of children under the care of CAMHS. To support multi-disciplinary colleagues in providing interventions and support to the young people and their families.


• To contribute to assuring service quality by using specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent neurodevelopment and mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions to manage complex cases.


• To use and maintain high standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.


• To contribute to training, research and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of child and adolescent mental disorders.


• To contribute to the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to quality assure best practice and the implementation of NICE guidelines across teams.


• To contribute to service development.
  
  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
  
  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.


Other benefits include:

• Counselling services


• Wellbeing events


• Long service awards


• Cycle to work scheme


• Season ticket loan


• Childcare vouchers


• Staff restaurants