CAMHS Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Catford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in Catford seeks a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating mental health issues in children and young people. The ideal candidate will conduct risk assessments and manage duties effectively within a multi-disciplinary team. This role offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous pay, career development, and well-being initiatives.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions, and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Car lease benefits

Keyworker housing availability

NHS discounts on retail brands

Wellbeing events

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Childcare vouchers

Qualifications

• Trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, play therapy, or art therapy.
• Ability to assess and treat mental health difficulties in children and young people.
• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments with children & young people and their families.
• Manage daily duty rota for service, including new referrals and telephone queries.
• Assist in developing and reviewing therapeutic aims and standards.

Skills

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Play therapy

Art therapy

Job description

The post holder will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people whom are referred to the team.

You will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical supervisor to manage these situations effectively.

You will be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.

You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice.

If you are trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, play therapy, art therapy you may apply for this post and your clinical skills will be an added asset for the Horizon team

This role is for the Horizon Generic team, this is a large generic team within Lewisham CAMHS, who provide treatment and assessment.

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.

The successful candidate will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people whom are referred to the team.

They will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical supervisor to manage these situations effectively. They will also be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.

If successful you will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
• Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting and reviewing of therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients.
• To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional requirement standards of record keeping.
• To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.
• Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
• Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.
• To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.
• To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work.
• Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.
• Supervise junior members of the team (Band 5 - 6) or trainees from any discipline.


This advert closes on Sunday 27 Jul 2025