Senior CAMHS CBT Therapist

The Generic Team of Greenwich CAMHS is pleased to offer a permanent Senior CBT Therapist. The role includes providing assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Greenwich CAMHS offers services to children, young people and families between the hours of 8.30am and 6pm, in order to improve accessibility for school-aged children and working care-givers. These extended hours also mean there is greater flexibility for working hours for the staff team. We also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
The Generic Team is a highly experienced and established multidisciplinary team. It is comprised of a diverse and specialist group of professionals from different backgrounds. We are also welcoming of trainees in all disciplines and currently have trainees in art therapy, family and systemic therapy, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. We work with a wide range of age groups (0-17 years) and clinical presentations.
You would join Greenwich CAMHS at an exciting time of service development. Greenwich CAMHS and partner agencies are currently in the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich. As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. You will work in this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary
team and may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians. You will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives to meet the needs of the population.
GCAMHS sits within culturally diverse Greenwich and offers a rich and stimulating environment from which to work. GCAMHS has embedded the principles of CYP-IAPT within its service provision, and there is an active Young Person's Participation Group supporting service delivery across the three CAMH services within Oxleas. We are an equal opportunities employer. We would welcome applications from BAME candidates to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we work with.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind
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We Listen
We Care
The post is with the Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS. The Generic Team is a highly experienced multidisciplinary team comprised of psychiatry, family therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, children's wellbeing practitioners, and psychology at various levels of seniority. This Senior CBT Therapist role is to provide assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The role may also involve specialist consultation, support, and training to colleagues within and external to the service. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. In addition, you may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians.
Greenwich CAMHS is based at Highpoint House on Shooters Hill in Plumstead and is accessible by different bus routes from several different South Eastern train stations. There is free parking on site, nearby streets and at the large car park at the adjacent Memorial Hospital. We also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. The Trust and CAMHS have been rated as Good by the CQC and has a culture of supporting staff, whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
For more information please see the Job Description attached