CAMHS Specialist Practitioner / Training Facilitator (N&S EPEC)

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in South London invites applications for a Parenting Intervention Practitioner to develop and deliver evidence-based parenting programmes in a variety of settings. This position offers an opportunity for flexible working, a supportive environment, and engagement in research. The ideal candidate will bring a Doctorate or equivalent and experience in child mental health, along with a passion for community support.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Training of professionals across mental health services.
• Understanding of various parenting education models.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery and development of peer-led parenting programmes.
• Manage contracts for EPEC group commissioning.
• Train Parent Group Leaders and professionals locally and nationally.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational knowledge

Facilitation

Therapeutic practice

Education

Doctorate or MSc in child and adolescent mental health

Professional registration with a statutory body

Job description

Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Michael Rutter Centre Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/07/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 7

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

This post is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills within a National and Specialist CAMHS service. The Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) Team deliverers evidenced based, peer led, manualised, parenting interventions; locally, nationally and internationally within a range of health, mental health social care and community settings.

Specialist parenting/early help/children’s centre, supervision and project management knowledge skills and experience are integral to this role. These will support the delivery, implementation and development of our evidence-based parenting interventions and enable us to continue to provide a high-quality service to local parents/young people and children. In addition to our core programmes ‘Being a Parent’, ‘Baby and Us’ and ‘Living with Teenagers’ we also offer and are developing our Dads specific groups/support and offer specialist parenting programmes. The specialist programmes support parents with mental health and post-natal illness and parents whose children have additional needs predominantly neurodevelopmental.

There is also a variety of opportunities to be involved in research and development within this team.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative, forward-thinking practitioner who has a passion for working with a peer led model and in early prevention work for children, young people and adults. You will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to parents needs flexibly.

Main duties of the job

This established post provides parenting programmes within a national and specialist setting. The core role is to support all aspects of delivery and development of these evidenced based, peer led parenting programmes; locally, nationally. This work will also influence and support the development of our international work.

Including:
• Supporting/managing contracts for commissioning of EPEC groups,
• Supervision of peer facilitators of a range of EPEC groups across the terms
• Delivering/developing training for Parent Group Leaders and professionals both locally and nationally
• Understanding and modelling EPEC principles throughout the role.
• To actively participate in service development and patient/carer and public involvement
• Working with outcome measures collection supporting the completion and dissemination of these alongside the research team

Working for our organisation

About our locations:
Our office is at the Michael Rutter Centre is based on the Maudsley Hospital site (trust 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.
We are currently working a hybrid of working from home online and working in the office following Covid-19. We also work at local children centres/community spaces as part of the delivery of our programmes.

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 8 to 6, giving you the very best of good work life balance. Where we have evenings and weekend groups approx. 1-2 per term availability to work these are desirable and negotiable. The role is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from those considering part time options. There is a requirement of working 2 days on-site and the working pattern needs to include either a Monday or a Friday.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• EPEC involves training local parents to facilitate peer-led parenting groups in community locations, such as schools, children’s centres, faith and cultural centres. The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing EPEC across South London, and increasingly more widely. This will include (i) running EPEC training courses for parents’ (ii) training practitioners across the full range of disciplines involved in working with children, young people and families to implement EPEC ; iii) offering supervision to EPEC trained practitioners and supervisors, (iv) being responsible for the overall management of the programme within a borough or area, (v) being responsible for supporting allocated national sites, (vi) supporting evaluation and data collection across the service, contributing to evidence base and ongoing research.

• In addition, The post holder will support the development and implementation of: (i) further applications of the EPEC Model across mental health, health, social care, education and other children’s services; (ii) methods for integrating the Model with other evidence based interventions and national guidelines and standards (iii) further methods to effectively disseminate and support the implementation the EPEC Model through further training courses, associated training and supervision. The post holder will also support the work of senior colleagues in their negotiations with organisations commissioning the Centre’s activities.

• The post requires an understanding of the EPEC Model, evidence-based parenting interventions and parent education models, knowledge of other evidence-based interventions as well as experience of working closely with managers and practitioners to support the development of effective services for children and families.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Either Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health and parenting including. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy or equivalent with a portfolio of post-registration clinical professional development and/or first level qualification/registration in nursing, health visiting, social work or other relevant profession. (A)
• All applicants will require professional registration with an appropriate statutory body: the HCP, Nursing Midwifery Council, ACP or UKCP. (A)
• Formal training in supervision of other practitioners or equivalent clinical experience. (A)

Experience

• Post qualification experience of delivering specialist evidence-based interventions to individuals and groups of service users with complex psychosocial difficulties. (A/I)
• Experience of working with parents, running parenting groups
• Evidence of good practice in child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning or equivalent field
• Experience of training of professionals from a range of mental health and non-mental health professions. (A/I)

Understanding and Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge of the theory, skills and practice underpinning the programmes used by the Centre (e.g. attachment, developmental ecology, strength based methods, risk and resilience, CBT, goal focussed and relational methods etc.). (A/I)
• Knowledge of facilitation and group work. (A/I)
• Knowledge of relevant policy, legislation and professional, ethical and cultural standards relating to work with children, young people, their families and carers. (A/I)
• Knowledge and understanding of diversity issues and impact on children and families, service provision and training practices. (A/I)

Skills

• Skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment, intervention and risk management for children and young people and complex family risk factors, and the ability to adapt these appropriately for varying client groups and need. (A/I)
• Interpersonal skills and organisational knowledge to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working that complement the skills of other professionals. (A/I)
• Proven ability to be reflective in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
• Experience of patient, carer and public involvement and/or peer led models of practice

Abilities

• Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of sources to support case/project formulation, planning, training and supervision (A/I)
• Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with managers, practitioners, and service users. (A/I)
• Ability to work flexible hours and the ability to travel and work out of traditional office hours. On occasion, to spend nights away to meet service demand. (A/I)
• Ability to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials for training, digital interactions, meetings and presentations in public, professional and academic settings. (A/I)

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.