South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Specialist Practitioner Psychologist (N&S AAFS)
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N&S CAMHS Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service (AAFS) - Band 7 Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
The N&S CAMHS Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service (AAFS) is a national and specialist service within the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. AAFS are delighted to be recruiting a 1 WTE Band 7 Specialist Practitioner Psychologist to join our team on a permanent basis.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a responsive, specialist service for young people and families who present with high risk alongside complex mental health needs and neurodiversity. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to consolidate skills in formulation, intervention, and risk management within a skilled and supportive clinical team.
Duties
The post holder will provide a specialist clinical service to the Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service, National and Specialist CAMHS. Main duties include:
- Highly specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, high-risk behaviours (e.g., self-harm, aggression, sexual offending) and/or risk of exploitation (sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and neuropsychological assessments.
- To provide direct and indirect evidence-based psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service.
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About Us
The N&S CAMHS Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service (AAFS) is a national and specialist service within the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. AAFS works with young people aged 10-18, their families, carers and professional networks, offering evidence-based assessment and intervention using CBT, DBT and systemic models. The young people seen by our service typically present with complex mental health needs, high risk across multiple domains (to self, to others, from others), have early and ongoing adverse and traumatic experiences and (often undiagnosed) neurodiversity (autism, ADHD, intellectual disability). They are amongst the most excluded and marginalised in society and tend to be referred to AAFS because their needs exceed what is available within local CAMHS services. We work creatively and flexibly to overcome barriers to engagement, be it individual, systemic, or multisystem, and to provide a service to young people in need.
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About our locations
The post will be based at Pears Maudsley Centre, on the Maudsley Hospital site which is located in Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from green spaces (e.g. Ruskin Park) and a vibrant high-street (Camberwell).
For further details / informal visits contact
- Name: Molly Marsden
- Job title: Highly Specialist Practitioner
- Email address: molly.marsden@slam.nhs.uk
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