South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Clinical Specialist
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About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated 3 years fixed term -part-time (3 days a week) Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Clinical Specialist to join our multi-disciplinary CAMHS service for Children Looked After and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. The role involves undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, monitoring outcomes, and providing consultation and specialist advice to social care, health, education and CAMHS colleagues to support the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of this vulnerable client group.
Requirements
Applicants must hold either a Doctoral qualification (or equivalent) in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or a recognised professional qualification in Nursing, Child Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Creative Therapy, or Social Work with relevant professional registration. Applicants will also be required to demonstrate experience of delivering trauma-informed interventions to children, young people, and/or families.
The role has a primary focus on direct clinical work and includes responsibility for culturally sensitive and trauma informed assessment, care planning, implementation of therapeutic interventions (individual, family and group), risk management, and outcome monitoring. In addition, the post holder will contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, audit, research, training and clinical supervision, supporting the continuous improvement of service delivery and outcomes for children and young people.
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About the Team
The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary Lambeth Children Looked After Mental Health Team (CLAMHS) which is a specialist team within Lambeth CAMHS. The team is located with other Lambeth CAMHS teams at St John's Angell Town School which is a 10 minute walk from Brixton Underground and Train Station (Zone 2). Lambeth is a vibrant, inner city, ethnically diverse community.
Benefits
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.
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- 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 from keyworker 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
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Hillary Despres
- Job title: Clinical Services Lead
- Email address: Hillary.Despres@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07812660230
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