Highly Specialist Camhs Practitioner

East London Nhs Foundation Trust; Dover; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust invites a clinician to join Tower Hamlets CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. You will deliver evidence-based episodes of care to young people with learning disability within a diverse community, working alongside psychiatry, nursing, psychology and allied staff.

The role emphasises professional autonomy, audit and appraisal, with opportunities to contribute to group programmes including ASC assessment clinics and Positive Behaviour Support interventions.

Qualifications

• Qualification in mental health/social welfare profession and registration.
• Evidence of CPD in keeping with qualification period.
• Experience in CAMHS and/or Learning Disability services.
• Experience with safeguarding and risk assessment.
• Experience with multi-ethnic communities and interpreters.
• Ability to supervise others.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based care and assessments to young people with learning disability.
• Deliver assessments and treatments in a MDT setting within CAMHS neurodevelopmental team.
• Contribute to group programmes and ASC assessment clinics.
• Maintain high-quality documentation and contribute to audit outcomes.

Skills

Positive Behaviour Support

Risk assessment & management

CAMHS experience

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communication skills

Education

BSc, Masters or Doctorate

Registration with appropriate body (UKCP, NMC, HCP)

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for a clinician who is passionate about working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tower Hamlets CAMHS is a friendly, thriving and innovative service; ELFT has a strong ethos of Quality Improvement, and we are keen to continually develop our service. The service includes professionals from various disciplines including psychiatry, nursing, social workers, psychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and family therapy, who come together to provide high-quality holistic care for young people and their families.

Main duties of the job

This is a community-based post, located within the Neurodevelopmental Team in Tower Hamlets CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the service. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

The post holder will provide evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatment to young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability. The post holder will bring their clinical knowledge and skills to this team. NDT provide a broad range of evidence-based interventions including an established group programme (supporting behaviour, sleep, and a neuroaffirmative group for young people who have received recent diagnosis of ASC), Positive Behaviour Support, ASC assessment clinic, consultation to CAMHS colleagues and schools, and direct work with children and their families, which the post holder will contribute towards.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year per annum Inc HCAs

Contract: Fixed term, 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 363-SS8386349

Closing date: 22 November 2026

Essential qualifications and training

• Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession including: Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health or LD) / Psychotherapist / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker
• Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g., BSc, Masters or Doctorate
• Registration with your appropriate body (e.g., UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.)
• Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period

Desirable qualifications and training

• Qualification as a Non-medical Prescriber
• Autism assessment training e.g., 3Di training, ADOS training
• Positive Behaviour Support training

Essential experience

• Experience of working in CAMHS and/or experience in Adult Services for Learning Disability with clear evidence of transferable skills
• Experience of specialist assessments and treatments for LD and behaviours that challenge
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management. Experience of working with children, young people, and families in emotional crisis
• Experience of working with complex networks
• Experience of outcome measures
• Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
• Experience, skills, and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
• Experience of group work
• Supervision training and/or experience of supervising others

Desirable experience

• Experience of quality improvement and innovative projects
• Project management or service development
• Experience of ASC assessments

Essential knowledge, skills and abilities

• Specialist clinical skills within specific therapeutic modalities, in particular, Positive Behaviour Support intervention, behavioural/functional analysis
• Evidence of highly specialist clinical skills and knowledge in working with children/young people and/or adults with moderate to severe learning disability
• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work flexibly according to need
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; at an age-appropriate level, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers, and professionals within and outside the NHS
• Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries
• Skills in supervising and facilitating the development of skills in others (e.g., through consultation or training)
• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
• Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mental health problems/disorders (including young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability, presentations of behaviours of concern, assessment of co-morbid presentations)
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional guidelines
• Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation

Essential other requirements

• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS, including Child Protection Guidelines
• Knowledge of specific inner-city issues which impact on care delivery
• Knowledge of standard setting and quality assurance
• In-depth knowledge and current knowledge of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions

Desirable other requirements

• Knowledge of development in inter agency partnership

Disclosure and Barring Service check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact

For further information and/or an informal discussion, contact Dr Farjana Nasrin, Clinical Team Lead.

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