N&s Camhs Clinical Psychologist for Hft - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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The Helping Families Team is a clinical team within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, which is part of SlaM's National and Specialist CAMHS provision.


The role will interest clinicians who are highly skilled and experienced at engaging with families who are impacted by parental mental health.


The role involves the systematic and ecological assessment of parental mental health and the delivery of a range of specialist evidence-based parenting interventions developed in the Centre.


You will take a role in providing clinical supervision to colleagues and providing expertise in the assessment and management of clinical risk, as well as providing guidance and leadership in regards to child and adult safeguarding.

You will be a strong, compassionate and motivating leader


You take a lead role in enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.


You will contribute to the collection of routine outcomes, as well as the coordination of service evaluation, service development, intervention development and research.


  • Systematic provision of a highly specialist psychotherapeutic service to families impacted on by parental mental health
  • Skilled provision of clinical supervision to colleagues and consultation to professionals
  • Ability to assess, manage and supervise clinical risk for parents experiencing significant mental health difficulties
  • Monitor, manage and communicate child and adult safeguarding concerns with families and professional networks
  • Specialist psychological assessment of parental mental health and family functioning
  • Confident and skilled in engaging with parents who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and are likely to have had significant input from a range of services over a long period of time.
  • Ability to create a supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multiagencies.
  • Facilitation of specialist peerled parenting group interventions
  • Service evaluation, audit and research


CPCS is a successful and influential service that has developed and disseminated a number of evidence-based parenting interventions which focus on early life and development, parenting, and families living in complex psychosocial circumstances.


  • The Helping Families Team is a multidisciplinary team within the Centre that provides specialist individual and group parenting interventions to parents who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
  • The Helping Families Team works in partnership with families, colleagues and other agencies. We have a clear set of principles and values that guide the way we interact as a team and how we engage respectfully and honestly with families and professionals.
  • The Helping Families Programme is a specialist parenting programme that was developed to support multistressed parents to address crises and stressors that they themselves and their families face as well as facilitating improvements in their parenting and their relationships.
  • About our locations: Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
The HFT are based in the Michael Rutter Centre on the Maudsley Hospital site.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.

We provide services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon and Southwark.


To provide a highly specialist psychotherapeutic service to families impacted by parental mental health including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.


  • To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
  • To act as Senior Clinician, within HFT, taking responsibility for child and adult safeguarding and clinical risk management of families.
  • To provide consultation to SLaM colleagues and multiagency professionals and functioning as a lead specialist in parental mental health.
  • To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists and multidisciplinary colleagues within the Helping Families Team and across the CPCS.
  • Provision of professional training in the Helping Families Programme, Family Partnership Model and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions.
  • To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
  • To work as an autonomous professional within relevant Professional bodies and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
  • To lead on the
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