Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7196578
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Rutter Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner / Programme Hub Lead (N&S EPEC)
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
• Senior leadership role within Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support, contributing to national and international dissemination of evidence-based parenting interventions and ongoing research.
• Portfolio of work coordinating, contributing, and leading on interventions, implementation, and dissemination
Main duties of the job
• Senior leadership role with Empowering Parents Empowering Communities within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, providing guidance and supervision to clinicians within the service. Working with senior leadership group to ensure work with national, international, and local services is fulfilled according to service level agreements, licenses, and work plans with sufficient funding.
• Use understanding of complex and changing circumstances within social care, national health service and voluntary sector to support work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support to remain accessible, appropriate and acceptable.
• Promote the work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support internally within the Trust, nationally and internationally, presenting at conferences, delivering training and through publications.
Working for our organisation
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage with the aim of giving you the best of good work life balance. (this may include working early mornings or late evenings and some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post). On-site working a minimum of three days will be required
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service for the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC)
• To work closely with the service leads to ensure EPEC has sufficient, staffing, and other resources to fulfil its local service requirements
• To work with the Heads of Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure that activity is safe, acceptable, and effective, gathering, and collating evidence and recommending/implementing service review and improvements as necessary
• To contribute and support day to day leadership of the EPEC service and its work including oversight of clinical and operational supervision, appraisals and review for team members, students, and trainees.
• To contribute and support development and day to day dissemination of programmes of the EPEC service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy or equivalent with a strong portfolio of post-registration clinical professional development (A/I)
- Registration with professional body, HCPC, NMC, Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional body (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Additional training in therapeutic skills such as training in a manualised parenting programme (A/I)
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health, including specialist practitioner and clinical performance management work (A/I)
- Experience of working with families exposed to complex psychosocial risk factors (A/I)
- Experience of work in different cultural contexts (A/I)
- Experience of public presentation at a local level (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of aetiology of conduct disorder and parenting problems (A/I)
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice and evidence-base of specialised psychological therapies for children, young people and families such as parenting interventions, CBT, Family Partnership, family therapy (A/I)
- Sound knowledge of universal services and community settings (A/I)
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Proven skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment for conduct problems, parenting and complex family risk factors and case management (A/I)
- Proven skills in delivering a range of evidence-based interventions with children, parents and families (A/I)
- Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with children, young people and their families and carers (A/I)
- Ability and skills to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working which complement the skills of other professionals (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups (A/I)
- Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. (A/I)
Other
Essential criteria
- An enthusiastic and committed approach to clinical, professional and service matters. (A/I)
- Highly motivated and able to work independently (A/I)
- Genuine commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and service user empowerment (A/I)
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
- Robert Weatherby
- Job title
- Principal clinical practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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