CAMHS Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greenwich; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greenwich is seeking a CAMHS Specialist to support children and young people with complex mental health needs. The successful candidate will deliver evidence-based interventions and manage a defined caseload, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. This role emphasizes kindness, fairness, and ongoing professional development. The position offers a fixed term contract or a permanent role, with a competitive salary range of £44,485 to £52,521 pro rata per annum.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• At least 2 years post registration experience in a mental health setting, preferably in CAMHS.
• Experience working with children.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions and assess care quality.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs.
• Communicate effectively with clients, families, and colleagues.

Skills

Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients.

Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team

Ability to maintain and manage own workload autonomously

Willingness to develop specialist knowledge of child & adolescent mental health

Ability to analyse and manage risks

Education

RN Mental Health/LD / Social Work qualification/ Art therapist/ Occupational therapy

Registration body

Job description

1 X Fixed Term Contract @ 30 hours per week

1 x Permanent @ 30 hours per week

This role is based at Highpoint House, Shooters Hill, within Greenwich CAMHS, part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder is accountable to the Greenwich CAMHS Operational Manager.

Purpose of the Role

The CAMHS Specialist supports the implementation of service and trust initiatives, monitors and evaluates care quality, and manages a caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs. The role requires independent working, leadership in clinical practice, andactive participation in a multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver evidence-based interventions and use CYP IAPT principles.
• Undertake CAMHS initial assessment and develop appropriate care plans for CYP
• Manage and coordinate care for a defined caseload
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate individualised therapeutic intervention appropriate to core training skills
• Provide specialist mental health advice, consultation, and signposting.
• Train and mentor students, junior staff, and community professionals.
• Assess and manage risk, including safeguarding responsibilities.
• Communicate effectively with clients, families, colleagues, and external agencies.
• Maintain high standards of documentation and adhere to legal, ethical, and professional guidelines.
• Participate in service development, policy implementation, and professional forums.
• Demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity, and the rights of clients and carers.

Additional Information

• The role does not require on-call or unsocial hours.
• Emphasis is placed on Oxleas' values: kindness, fairness, listening, and caring.
• Ongoing professional development and supervision are expected.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.

To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.

To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network.

To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.

To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.

To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.

To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individuals psychological stability.

To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.

To provide phone advice to people in crisis.

To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.

To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.

To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.

To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.

To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• RN Mental Health/LD / Social Work qualification/ Art therapist/ Occupational therapy
• Registration body

Experience

• At least 2 years post registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.
• Working with children

Skills

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients.
• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate awareness of MDT functioning.
• Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area
• Willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge of clinical aspects of child & adolescent mental health.
• Ability to analyse and manage risks

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearpro rata pa inc