Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner with considerable Neurodevelopmental CAMHS experience, to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham. This post is open to applicants from all of the core professions: Psychology, Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Nursing, Social Work and Occupational Therapy.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and vibrant multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health team. There is a strong culture of support for staff with a number of reflective group spaces, in addition to supervision, such as the Challenging Race and Inequalities group. New ideas and innovative practice are welcomed and our thriving service user participation group works collaboratively with staff to develop projects. We encourage staff proactively to access learning and teaching opportunities within CAMHS and the wider NHS Trust, as well as on accredited courses., The post holder will be expected to conduct specialist CAMHS assessments for children and young people with and without neurodevelopmental conditions, such as ADHD, autism and learning disability, who are experiencing mental health difficulties and to offer them evidenced based clinical interventions.

The post holder would directly contribute to and support a positive working environment with the Multidisciplinary team and expected to offer supervision and management to more junior clinical staff (band 7 and below). This is a community-based post, which also requires

a high degree of professional autonomy and self management. The post holder will receive clinical supervision from someone within the same professional discipline.

We are looking for an applicant who has experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working within an inter-culturally community. This post is part of a comprehensive Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, within the East London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a community based post in Newham CAMHS to work with the Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT) and Front Door Team., Please watch this video to learn more about Newham CAMHS from our service users and families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_HEZhhybQ, Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.