CYP-IAPT Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community-driven initiative in mental health is expanding its team in London. This role involves providing holistic support to children and adolescents experiencing mental health difficulties, working closely with GPs and multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective interventions and care. Candidates should possess specific qualifications in child and adolescent mental health and be ready to contribute to the team's success in enhancing community accessibility and care quality.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development programs

Car lease benefits

Keyworker housing availability

NHS discounts on retail brands

Counseling services and support

Cycle to work scheme

Long service awards

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
• Ability to collaborate with supervisors, service users, and MDT.
• Skills in initial assessments, group work, and clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CAMHS and other entities to deliver interventions.
• Conduct risk assessments and manage therapeutic activities.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team to support children in the community.

Skills

Mental health disorders in children and adolescents

Assessment of risk and management of risk factors

Good written and verbal presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant subject

Qualification in Pg Dip CYP IAPT either CBT or IPT-A

Job description

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

07.07.2025

Expiry Date:

21.08.2025

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Job overview

This role presents a unique opportunity to be part of a community-driven initiative. Following a triumphant pilot year, our project has garnered a commendable reputation, delivering significant positive outcomes in the community. As we embark on our expansion phase, we remain committed to improving accessibility for the local populace. Young people aged 13 and above have the convenience of self-referring either through our online QR code system or by directly visiting the centre. In this role, you'll also collaborate closely with General Practitioners and a multidisciplinary team within CAMHS and clinicians offering support to young adults (up to age 25), ensuring a holistic approach to community care.

Main duties of the job

You will collaborate with CAMHS services and liaise with other entities, including local authorities and the voluntary sector, to deliver impactful interventions. As the post holder, you'll uphold CYP-IAPT care principles and ensure that the care provided aligns with evidence-based interventions. The post holder will be assessing and treating children with mental health difficulties presenting within CWP team and Mulberry Hub contexts.

Working for our organisation

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 fromkeyworker 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
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• In particular the post holder will use evidence-based intervention and apply the specialist input in their clinical therapeutic work.
• You will carry out risk assessments on children & young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.
• You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines, GPs colleagues from the voluntary sector and other external agencies.
• You will work as part of the clinic between the hours of 3pm-7pm. Outside these hours there is some scope for hybrid working.
• Within the CWP Service the post holder will be responsible for supporting Children Wellbeing Practitioners, trainees as well as playing an important role in managing the delivery of the following purview of the CWP Service: Supporting Children Wellbeing Practitioners to deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties by using the manual-based intervention. It includes supporting the service lead in supporting CWPs' clinical work, ensuring the quality of care and safeguarding risks.You will play an important role to bridge with other internal and external colleagues from other services, working in a multidisciplinary team in a diverse community and assisting CWP Services to develop better services in response the need in the community. It includes participating in group intervention, collecting data to monitor clinical performance.You will require you to be based in the Mulberry Hub (GP Youth Clinic) and Lewisham CAMHS (78 Lewisham Park). You will need to adapt your working pattern to meet the demand
• Within the GP Youth Clinic, you will be bridging the gap between Primary Care and CAMHS as well as promoting partnership working and
• You will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

Person specification

Experience

• • Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills.
• • Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care.
• • Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care.
• • experience of the following: initial assessments, group, individual and family work, multi-disciplinary work, clinical governance and audit or clear evidence of transferable skills

Knowledge

• • Mental health disorders in children and adolescents
• • The Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005
• • Assessment of risk and management of risk factors.
• • IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases.
• • Good written and verbal presentation skills

Qualifications

• • Qualification in Pg Dip CYP IAPT either CBT or IPT-A or CBT formal training
• • Bachelor’s degree (or conversion course) from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (Nurse, Social work, OT etc) or PG diploma in CWP or EMHP