Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Job share - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7205030
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Park
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/07/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Lead, Adolescent Treatment Team
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Clinical Lead to join the Adolescent Treatment Team (ATT), a well-established arm of Lewisham CAMHS that offer stabilisation, formulation, and treatment of young people with mental health problems that are severe, complex, and/or associated with high levels of risk. The team also provides the early intervention in service for young people with psychosis and bipolar disorder in the borough.
We are a multi-disciplinary, dynamic, resourceful, caring and supportive team with a small, protected caseload of young people with the highest level of need, including severe depression and anxiety disorders, complex trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and emotional instability. Many have previously had or are at risk of a psychiatric admission, and we work closely with inpatient services to enable continuity of care and successful step-down to the community post-discharge. ATT use teamwork to offer the most effective service provision in a supportive and respectful environment whilst still being a fun base.
We wish to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to job share the clinical and managerial running of the team offering specialist direct work, supervision, planning, advice, liaison and development. As the team manage complex mental health needs experience of working with The Mental Health Act, The Mental Capacity Act and medication regimes will be valuable.
Main duties of the job
- To provide clinical leadership in managing several high risk and complex mental health presentations in vulnerable children.
- To offer a limited amout of assessment/direct work to support the team's workload.
- To provide managerial and clinical supervision to team members.
- To provide leadership within the team along with other seniors developing the service to meet the needs of the vulnerable young people in Lewisham.
- To contribute to senior management meetings within the wider service.
- To ensure the governance in the team is maintained.
- To ensure key aspects of team function such as safeguarding and record keeping are met.
Working for our organisation
SLAM is the largest mental health trust in the UK and offers a wide range of National Specialists and local provisions in South London. Working for Lewisham CAMHS gives access to many of the dynamic and innovative opportunities linked to the Trust.
Lewisham is an inner-city borough in South London serving a population of almost 300,000 people, 23 % falling in the 0-19 age group. Lewisham is highly diverse and proudly represents many different cultures, needs and backgrounds.
Lewisham CAMHS has several teams providing services to specific need; the ATT team has been established over 20 years serving the most complex and high-risk children in Lewisham. There is close liaison with other CAMHS teams and the wider specialist services. Working within ATT can be challenging and demanding but there are resources in place such as supervision, case discussion, the MDT, joint work, training, clear referral criteria, systems management and workable caseloads to support functioning. There is a strong team identity and ethos, we strive to do our best for our young people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This successful candidate will lead the service provision for young people presenting with mental health problems that are severe, complex, and associated with high levels of risk. This will include high-quality assessment, formulation, and evidence-based therapy to young people and families. The role will also include consultation to support the team and the wider Lewisham CAMHS service. The candidate will also hold a small number of care coordination cases to support with stabilisation, risk management, and multi-agency care planning.
The role also involves ensuring the effective working of the team and providing senior duty cover to support team members in managing risk and complex presentations. There will be supervision and apraisals required for team members. The post-holder will be the senior leader in the team that oversees clinical activities and processes, working together to drive service improvement and create a psychological safe environment in which team members can flourish. Engagement in research will be actively encouraged, and the candidate would be supported to undertake training and professional development in line with their appraisal.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health Professional's Council (HPC/ HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Desirable criteria
- • MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff. A/I
- • Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. A/I
- • Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal. A/I
Desirable criteria
- • Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to children, young people, families and colleagues.
- • Well developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team and/or other professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- Skill in managing differences of opinion and formulating plans.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Highly specialist knowledge of childhood disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties and attachment disorders and theories of child development.
- • Knowledge of legislation and national policy in relation to vulnerable children and mental health issues, including the Children Act, safeguarding children and the Mental Health Act.
- • Knowledge of racial and diversity issues and their impact on service access, through attendance of relevant training.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate level knowledge of CAMH research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Whiteside
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07956656933
- Additional information
Dr Collins 0203 228 1000
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