CAMHS Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High;
Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.

We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Southwark Child and Adolescent Service (CAMHS) is seeking to recruit an innovative CAMHS practitioner with developed clinical skills to work in its multi-disciplinary Adolescent Team (MDT).

Our dynamic and supportive MDT consists of psychiatry, clinical psychology, nursing, therapist and social work professionals.

The team provides assessment and evidence-based therapies to young people aged 12 to 18 with complex mental health difficulties including depression, emerging psychosis, OCD, PTSD and social anxiety.

The team has close links with Youth Offending Services, an assertive outreach team and National and Specialist Services.

The team also works in close partnership with social care, education and local third sector services and is committed to providing high-quality, collaborative evidence-based interventions.

A well developed culture of innovation exists within CAMHS and SLaM, and team members are involved in both research and service development projects.

SLaM has an excellent support structure for clinicians interested in conducting research and quality improvement initiatives.

The team benefits from strong academic links and regular CPD opportunities.

As a CAMHS practitioner in the Adolescent Team, you will work alongside the MDT and contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatment.

You will act as a care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the MDT.

You will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of young people referred to the service, as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks.

You will be responsible for a clinical caseload, involved in assessment, care planning and offer evidence-based interventions for young people with support from the wider MDT.

There are opportunities for joint working with a range of professionals across the service and for contributing to group work.

SLaM is committed to ensuring 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.

SLaM wants you to feel like you…