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

2 weeks ago

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Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations.

We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.

For this role, we offer ongoing training and development in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and specialist risk assessment.

The post holder will provide a specialist clinical service to the Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service, National and Specialist CAMHS

Main duties include:

Specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, highrisk behaviours (e.g., selfharm, aggression, sexual offending) and/ or risk of exploitation (sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and specialist assessments according to the post holder's professional background/ discipline.
To provide direct and indirect evidencebased psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service.

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 from09:00 to 17:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

The N&S CAMHS Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service (AAFS) is a national and specialist service within the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

AAFS works with young people aged 10-18, their families, carers and professional networks, offering evidence-based assessment and intervention using CBT, DBT and systemic models.

The young people seen by our service typically present with complex mental health needs, high risk across multiple domains (to self, to others, from others), have early and ongoing adverse and traumatic experiences and (often undiagnosed) neurodiversity (autism, ADHD, intellectual disability).

They are amongst the most excluded and marginalised in society and tend to be referred to AAFS because their needs exceed what is available within local CAMHS services.

We work creatively and flexibly to overcome barriers to engagement, be it individual, systemic, or multisystem, and to provide a service to young people in need.

Main duties include:

Specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, highrisk behaviours (e.g., selfharm, aggression, sexual offending) and/ or risk of exploitation (e.g., sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and specialist assessments according to the post holder's professional background/ discipline.
To provide direct and indirect evidencebased psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service.