Duty Clinician - CAMHS Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS clinician to undertake daily duty duties, perform risk assessments, and support urgent responses for children and young people. The role involves initial assessments, a mix of individual and family work, and close collaboration with parents, schools and other services.

You will contribute to care planning, maintain high-quality records in line with CAMHS standards, and use SystmOne for clinical documentation.

Qualifications

• Assess level of risk and help plan safety responses.
• Provide initial assessments for children and young people referred to the team.
• Support families and young people across waiting lists or crises.
• Maintain timely, accurate records in line with CAMHS standards.

Responsibilities

• Take part in local duty rota to provide urgent response when required.
• Use individual, group, and family work approaches according to needs.
• Offer specialist advice and support to other agencies as appropriate.
• Complete signposting and social prescribing after CAMHS assessments.

Skills

Risk assessment

Care planning

Multi-agency liaison

Signposting

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Assume responsibility for the daily duty system, particularly ascertaining the level of risk, and agreeing safety plans as and when necessary. To participate on the local duty rota providing a more urgent response to issues when required. Support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments, while in waiting lists or when in crisis. Provide initial assessments of children and young people referred to the team. Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to planning packages of care. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate. Complete signposting and social prescribing after CAMHS assessments. To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is timely, accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on SystmOne.

£58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

£58,133 - £65,261 per annum incl. of HCAs

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust