CAMHS Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a CAMHS Practitioner to support children and young people with complex mental health needs. The role involves conducting assessments, providing crisis interventions, and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Ideal candidates should have a background in mental health, possess strong teamwork skills, and be familiar with evidence-based practices. This position is based in Greenwich CAMHS and offers a fixed term contract at 30 hours per week.

Benefits

Offers a range of NHS healthcare services

Training in mental health interventions

Qualifications

• Must be a good team worker and able to lead in clinical practice.
• Experience working with children and young people with mental health conditions.
• Trained in evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis.
• Provide brief crisis clinical interventions to service users.
• Assess mental capacity as required.

Skills

Good team working

Clinical practice leadership

Crisis intervention

Risk assessment

Crisis planning

Education

Training in mental health care

Job description

1 X Fixed Term Contract @ 30 hours per week

1 x Permanent @ 30 hours per week

This post is based in the experienced and established multidisciplinary Generic Team / LDND in Greenwich CAMHS.

The CAMHS Practitioner role is responsible for supporting Greenwich CAMHS in implementing Directorate and Trust initiatives at service level and for playing a key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.

The post holder must be a good team worker and be able to lead in areas of clinical practice and development and will be responsible for working independently and managing a caseload of clients, ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.

The post holder will work within the multi-disciplinary team working with Children and young people with complex mental health presentations. The service operates from 8.30am-6pm Monday to Friday.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 individual’s psychological stability.
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
• 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 closely with colleagues within the crisis team, borough CAMHS services and wider colleagues across the South London Partnership, with opportunities to work with acute trust and social care colleagues.
• To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
• To assess mental capacity as required.
• To work extended hours within a two‑shift system over seven days per week.

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

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 signpost using an outcome‑based triage model, to the multi‑agency network.

This advert closes on Thursday 13 Nov 2025.