Camhs Clinical Specialist Practitioner - 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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We are a friendly, welcoming, fast developing, innovative, national and specialist ITP day programme team working with young people years) and their families. We offer an inclusive and supportive team environment and are keen to support your professional development and wellbeing.


The Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) is an intensive day programme for young people with restrictive eating disorders 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).

To deliver specialist applied psychotherapeutic service in the MCCAED Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP day hospital). Working collaboratively to assess the needs of the service users, planning, implementing and evaluating the care given in ITP.

To provide clinical work as required by the service. This will involve facilitation of therapeutic groups, and individual and family therapy sessions.


To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager as needed.

To provide daily therapeutic meal support to young people. This involves staff eating snacks and lunch alongside young people.

Meals within the programme are timed, with the expectation that staff are able to eat what is required within the time frame (10 minutes for snacks, 15 minutes for lunch, 20 minutes for dinner).

For lunches, a vegetarian and meat option are available daily, however where possible staff should be able to eat what the young people eat.


About our locations:


MCCAED is 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).

Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)


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.


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.

(This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)


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 MCCAED ITP team.

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.

The post holder will also contribute to service evaluation, research and policy development.

There are many opportunities available within the service in relation to continued professional development, delivery of training, research and supervision.


Key responsibilities:

Assessment and treatment of young people with eating disorders.

This will include group facilitation, therapeutic meal support, and individual and family therapeutic work for young people with eating disorders.

Assessment and treatment of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, self-harm and OCD.

Contribution to service development through service evaluation, audit and research.

To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.

Provision of consultation or training to other professionals.

To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management


To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations.

To take responsibility for seeking supervision and support for yourself and not going beyond your scope of practice.

To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to work some hours outside of normal office hours (e.g. until 6.30pm on one or two evenings per week), within the overall Job Plan. It is expected that you may need to work some hours outside of normal office hou
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