CAMHS Specialist Practitioner (N&S MCCAED - ITP)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists or Family Therapists for a full-time Band 7 position. Join a supportive team dedicated to working with young people and their families, offering a flexible work environment and opportunities for professional development. Responsibilities include delivering psychotherapeutic services, facilitating therapy sessions, and providing therapeutic meal support. This role emphasizes teamwork, flexibility, and a commitment to high standards of care.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Professional Development Support

Qualifications

• Deliver specialist applied psychotherapeutic service in the ITP day hospital.
• Facilitate therapeutic groups and individual therapy sessions.

Responsibilities

• Assess needs of service users and evaluate care in ITP.
• Provide daily therapeutic meal support to young people.

Skills

Team Player

Flexibility

Experience with Young People

Therapeutic Facilitation

Education

Clinical Psychology

Counselling Psychology

Job description

• We are inviting applications from enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists / Family Therapists / Clinical Nurse Specialists for a full-time Band 7 post with our ITP Team. Are you someone who enjoys working with young people, is a team player, can bring experience of working with young people & families or eating disorders, and is willing to be flexible according to client need? Do you love to learn and want to make a real contribution to developing excellent standards of care? If so, we are keen to meet you!
• We are a friendly, welcoming, fast developing, innovative, national and specialist ITP day programme team working with young people (11 - 17 years) and their families. We offer an inclusive and supportive team environment and are keen to support your professional development and wellbeing.
• 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.
• Due to the nature of the service, the role will be primarily face-to-face, with the occasional option to work from home during half terms.
  
  

About our location: The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders 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). Our Trust headquarters is also located at Denmark Hill.

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. (The hours may include working early mornings, late evenings or some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Lucinda Gledhill Job title: Senior Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail]