Camhs Specialist Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and skilled Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist / Family Therapist / Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) team at the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED).

The Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) is an intensive day programme for young people who have not been able to make progress in outpatient treatment and who may be at risk of being admitted for inpatient treatment.

ITP is a therapeutic group programme, with groups taking principles from CBT for Eating Disorders, Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Remediation Therapy, and Art Therapy, as well as CBT for comorbid difficulties (anxiety, low mood, perfectionism etc).

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic MDT team providing assessment, formulation and treatment to meet the needs of the young people and their families in the MCCAED ITP Service.

This post will provide you with the opportunity to work in an internationally recognised service that developed current NICE recommended eating disorder focused family therapy.

This is a fixed-term post for 12months as part of maternity cover.

The post-holder will provide a specialist clinical service including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes and the provision of clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.

There are many opportunities available within the service in relation to continued professional development.

Key responsibilities:

Assessment and treatment of young people with eating disorders, this may include group facilitation and meal support
Assessment and treatment of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, selfharm and OCD.
Contribution to audit and research.
Provision of clinical supervision, consultation or training to other professionals as appropriate.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

MCCAED is a specialist service for children and adolescents with eating disorders, consisting of a large, motivated and energised multi-disciplinary team.

The service has three arms:
a specialist outpatient service, an intensive day treatment programme (ITP), and a specialist ARFID service.

MCCAED has been at the forefront of developing family interventions for eating disorders and is internationally recognised for this work.

The Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) evolved as a more intensive treatment (education, meal support, therapeutic groups, psychological therapy - family and individual) to be used when recovery is not progressing in outpatient work and to provide an alternative to inpatient treatment when young people are acutely unwell.

The referrals to ITP are normally high risk due to low weight and/or rapid weight loss, alongside severe nutritional restriction.

This role will have an element of home working; however, the majority of work will be face-to-face. This will be discussed with you in greater detail at time of interview.

About our location:

The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) and Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) are based at the Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, Maudsley Hospital, which is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).

Our Trust headquarters is also located at Denmark Hill.

Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within ITP. This will include specialist interventions for young people predominately with anorexia nervosa, as well as bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders.
To facilitate therapeutic groups for young people and their parents/carers, therapeutic meal support as part of the ITP group programme.
To provide culturally appropriate psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To act as care coordinatortaking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA coordination and meetings.

Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of ITPand to a psychotherapeutic framework for the service.
To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To liaise