Senior CAMHS Practitioner

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; England; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified psychologist to provide a comprehensive CAMHS service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems. The role involves multidisciplinary assessment, treatment planning and supervision within SET CAMHS.

You will work with families, carers and schools, conducting complex assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions and contributing to audit and service development.

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered with a regulatory body (e.g. HCPC).
• Expert clinical understanding in assessing children and adolescents with emotional/mental health problems.
• Ability to lead and consult within SET CAMHS.
• Provide parent/child work, group work and psycho-education.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient, comprehensive psychological services for children and adolescents with MH problems.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment planning.
• Undertake range of assessments, parenting support and complex cases.
• Provide supervision and consultation on CAMHS cases to the multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to audit and learning and monitor treatment outcomes.

Skills

HCPC registered

Autonomous assessment

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Family-focused treatment

Clinical supervision

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Job overview

The post holder must be professionally qualified and registered with an appropriate regulatory or professional body, with relevant mental health and/or psychological therapy training

• 1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
• 2. To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
• 3. To undertake a range of assessments, parenting support and complex cases.
• 4. To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on SET CAMHS cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within SET CAMHS, including junior staff.
• 5. To contribute to audit and learning.
• 6. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT
• 7. To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework SET CAMHS and the Trust's policies and procedure

Clinical Skills

• 1. To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP AFT, RMN, BABCP).
• 2. To use an expert clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multi- disciplinary team, children, adolescents and their families in order to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan
• 3. To work alongside other colleagues in SET CAMHS and in the care pathway in order to provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the child's, young person’s, and family's functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family. To clinically lead this process in the SET CAMHS team
• 4. To provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation
• 5. To provide highly specialist clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems
• 6. To undertake specialist observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments
• 7. To provide expert therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people) to children and young people with complex mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD; emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety states; attachment disorders; conduct disorders, eating disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychosomatic disorders; enuresis/encopresis, aggression, borderline states, self-harming, substance misuse and other behaviour potentially dangerous to the child/young person or others
• 8. To undertake work with parents/carers/networks of referred children and young people
• 9. To utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other members of SET CAMHS.

Leadership

• 1. The post-holder will provide clinical leadership within the sphere of their professional expertise
• 2. To actively promote integrated health/care professional working internally and externally
• 3. To facilitate the development of a positive and 'supportive' team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict
• 4. To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines
• 5. To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance
• 6. To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews
• 7. They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it and who use it across SET CAMHS

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI-generated content in applications.

Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.

We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.