Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy on CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7288857
- 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
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner (N&S FCAMHS)
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
This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in the forensic field and to develop skills in risk assessment and formulation, and in multi-agency consultation.
Alongside other team members, the post holder will contribute to the provision of a highly specialist advice, consultation, assessment and intervention service for young people presenting with risk to others and complex needs by:
• providing brief advice and multiagency consultation;
• facilitating consultation surgeries within local multiagency services;
• supporting case management and individual care planning;
• developing and delivering training to multi-agency services;
• and offering assessment and interventions.
Main duties of the job
Advice: to provide advice to all enquiring and referring agencies including social care, YOS, and CAMHS for young people who have or are at risk of harming others across South London. To signpost agencies when referral is not appropriate for FCAMHS.
Consultation: to provide both single and multi-agency consultation to agencies working with young people who have or are at risk of harming others jointly with team members. To support agencies in understanding, assessing, and formulating risk, and to help inform risk/care plans. Summarising consultations in a succinct report.
Assessment: to offer limited assessments when they are unable to access specialist assessments, and despite consultation the level of risk, and understanding of risk and mitigating factors remains unclear.
Intervention: to offer time-limited, focussed, and specialist interventions when young people are not able to access it elsewhere.
Supervision: to offer supervision to junior members of the team, and trainee/students where appropriate and dependant on profession.
Service development/Research: the post holder will be expected to contribute to service development, and lead on particular areas of research/auditing.
Working for our organisation
The service is part of the South London Partnership (SLP), a collaboration between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and South West London and St George’s NHS Foundation Trust, and the post holder will be required to do some travel across the 12 boroughs covered (Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth). The service base is located at The Michael Rutter Centre, Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in late 2025/early 2026)
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. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To provide advice and consultation to single and multi-agency colleagues, as well as delivering consultation clinics.
• To offer specialist assessment and intervention when required for a young person known to FCAMHS who is unable to access this elsewhere.
• To support single and multi-agencies to develop risk formulations, and management plans, and ensure that these are appropriately documented on clinical systems and disseminated.
• To contribute to the delivery, maintenance, auditing, and evaluation of the FCAMHS service model.
• To understand FCAMHS referral pathways, and contribute to screening of referrals, and well as supporting agencies to make referrals when they have enquires and signposting appropriately if they do not meet threshold for FCAMHS.
• To offer specialist supervision, and training to professionals/agencies when required.
• To contribute to audit, service evaluation, and research.
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 First level nursing qualification/registration RMN, RN LD or RSCN First level qualification in OT, social work, OR equivalent with related CAMHS experience OR First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems (A/I)
- All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health & Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantive experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health (A/I)
- Experience of working with young people with forensic and mental health concerns, including assessment, risk management and intervention (A/I)
- Experience of consulting to other professionals around issues of risk and risk management (A/I)
- Experience in working with young people with neurodevelopmental difference (A/I)
Knowlege/Skills
Essential criteria
- 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)
- Skills in providing consultation to professional groups (A/I).
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I/R)
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)
Desirable criteria
- Able to communicate complex and clinically sensitive information effectively to children and young people, their parents, families, carers and a wide range of lay, professional and academic persons within and outside the NHS orally and in writing (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
- Dr Zeyana Ramadhan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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