Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7197737
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Rutter Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Specialist Practitioner / Training Facilitator (N&S EPEC)
NHS AfC: Band 7
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 post is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills within a National and Specialist CAMHS service. The Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) Team deliverers evidenced based, peer led, manualised, parenting interventions; locally, nationally and internationally within a range of health, mental health social care and community settings.
Specialist parenting/early help/children’s centre, supervision and project management knowledge skills and experience are integral to this role. These will support the delivery, implementation and development of our evidence-based parenting interventions and enable us to continue to provide a high-quality service to local parents/young people and children. In addition to our core programmes ‘Being a Parent’, ‘Baby and Us’ and ‘Living with Teenagers’ we also offer and are developing our Dads specific groups/support and offer specialist parenting programmes. The specialist programmes support parents with mental health and post-natal illness and parents whose children have additional needs predominantly neurodevelopmental.
There is also a variety of opportunities to be involved in research and development within this team.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative, forward-thinking practitioner who has a passion for working with a peer led model and in early prevention work for children, young people and adults. You will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to parents needs flexibly.
Main duties of the job
This established post provides parenting programmes within a national and specialist setting. The core role is to support all aspects of delivery and development of these evidenced based, peer led parenting programmes; locally, nationally. This work will also influence and support the development of our international work.
Including:
• Supporting/managing contracts for commissioning of EPEC groups,
• Supervision of peer facilitators of a range of EPEC groups across the terms
• Delivering/developing training for Parent Group Leaders and professionals both locally and nationally
• Understanding and modelling EPEC principles throughout the role.
• To actively participate in service development and patient/carer and public involvement
• Working with outcome measures collection supporting the completion and dissemination of these alongside the research team
Working for our organisation
About our locations:
Our office is at the Michael Rutter Centre is based on the Maudsley Hospital site (trust 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.
We are currently working a hybrid of working from home online and working in the office following Covid-19. We also work at local children centres/community spaces as part of the delivery of our programmes.
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 8 to 6, giving you the very best of good work life balance. Where we have evenings and weekend groups approx. 1-2 per term availability to work these are desirable and negotiable. The role is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from those considering part time options. There is a requirement of working 2 days on-site and the working pattern needs to include either a Monday or a Friday.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• EPEC involves training local parents to facilitate peer-led parenting groups in community locations, such as schools, children’s centres, faith and cultural centres. The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing EPEC across South London, and increasingly more widely. This will include (i) running EPEC training courses for parents’ (ii) training practitioners across the full range of disciplines involved in working with children, young people and families to implement EPEC ; iii) offering supervision to EPEC trained practitioners and supervisors, (iv) being responsible for the overall management of the programme within a borough or area, (v) being responsible for supporting allocated national sites, (vi) supporting evaluation and data collection across the service, contributing to evidence base and ongoing research.
• In addition, The post holder will support the development and implementation of: (i) further applications of the EPEC Model across mental health, health, social care, education and other children’s services; (ii) methods for integrating the Model with other evidence based interventions and national guidelines and standards (iii) further methods to effectively disseminate and support the implementation the EPEC Model through further training courses, associated training and supervision. The post holder will also support the work of senior colleagues in their negotiations with organisations commissioning the Centre’s activities.
• The post requires an understanding of the EPEC Model, evidence-based parenting interventions and parent education models, knowledge of other evidence-based interventions as well as experience of working closely with managers and practitioners to support the development of effective services for children and families.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Either Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health and parenting including. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy or equivalent with a portfolio of post-registration clinical professional development and/or first level qualification/registration in nursing, health visiting, social work or other relevant profession. (A)
- All applicants will require professional registration with an appropriate statutory body: the HCP, Nursing Midwifery Council, ACP or UKCP. (A)
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in supervision of other practitioners or equivalent clinical experience. (A)
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience of delivering specialist evidence-based interventions to individuals and groups of service users with complex psychosocial difficulties. (A/I)
- Experience of working with parents, running parenting groups
- Evidence of good practice in child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning or equivalent field
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training of professionals from a range of mental health and non-mental health professions. (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of the theory, skills and practice underpinning the programmes used by the Centre (e.g. attachment, developmental ecology, strength based methods, risk and resilience, CBT, goal focussed and relational methods etc.). (A/I)
- Knowledge of facilitation and group work. (A/I)
- Knowledge of relevant policy, legislation and professional, ethical and cultural standards relating to work with children, young people, their families and carers. (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity issues and impact on children and families, service provision and training practices. (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment, intervention and risk management for children and young people and complex family risk factors, and the ability to adapt these appropriately for varying client groups and need. (A/I)
- Interpersonal skills and organisational knowledge to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working that complement the skills of other professionals. (A/I)
- Proven ability to be reflective in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
Desirable criteria
- Experience of patient, carer and public involvement and/or peer led models of practice
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of sources to support case/project formulation, planning, training and supervision (A/I)
- Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with managers, practitioners, and service users. (A/I)
- Ability to work flexible hours and the ability to travel and work out of traditional office hours. On occasion, to spend nights away to meet service demand. (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials for training, digital interactions, meetings and presentations in public, professional and academic settings. (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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