Specialist Camhs Practitioner - Erith, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Erith, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse/Advance OT/Social Worker/ Art Therapistto provide a highly specialist service for children and young people in Bexley CAMHS.

You will work with children and young people up to 18 years and their families/carers with significant and enduring mental health difficulties.


The post holder will manage a complex caseload within a multi-disciplinary team including; psychiatrists, psychologists, child psychotherapist, nurses, family therapist, social workers in close partnership with partner agencies working with children and young people in Bexley.

The service will be provided flexibly and include outreach work. You will also provide specialist advice and support to professional colleagues both internal and external to the Trust.


The post holder will be a registered clinician with at least 4 years post registration experience within a mental health setting; it would be an advantage if some of this time will have been working with young people.

You will need to have excellent therapeutic skills and be responsive and flexible in your approach to working with children and young people within the CAMH service.


The post holder will offer assessment, formulation and evidence-based psychological intervention for children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties accessing CAMHS.

The successful applicant will have post-graduate training in evidence-based psychological therapy and experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting.

They will be required to utilise specialist therapy skills to deliver both individual and group interventions.

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.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

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
  • We're
  • We Listen
  • We Care
  • To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based, providing therapeutic interventions for the service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.
  • To provide specialist assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.
  • To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
Bexley CAMHS is a friendly, busy and thriving CYP IAPT service, regarded as an accessible and effective service. Staff that work in Bexley CAMHS describe a warm and caring environment across the whole service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are based in a newly refurbished, purposely designed building at Park Crescent (Erith Hospital Site), Park Crescent, Erith DA8 3EE.

The site is easily accessible from Kent, SE and East London, as well as parts of Essex and Surrey. There is parking on site and nearby streets.

There are also excellent public transport links including a direct train to Erith from London Bridge in under 40 mins.

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