Job summary
Southwark CAMHS are seeking to recruit a Band 6 CAMHS Duty Clinician with strong clinical skills. This is a substantive, full-time post, based within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service. Within the Neurodevelopmental Service, you will work alongside the full multi-disciplinary team, to support the service and ensure the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. You will be responsible for ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be through the medium of emails and telephone calls.
If you are:
o registered with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
OR
o have an accredited professional training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, art therapy, or further training in evidence-based psychosocial treatment for children
AND
o have experience of delivering mental health services to children and young people with neurodevelopmental disability in diverse community settings
we would welcome your application!
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist clinical role within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS) which is ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS which will be in the form of emails and telephone calls. You will be supported in this role through close working with the Clinical Service Lead, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Senior Systemic Family Therapist, and Consultant Psychiatrist(s).
Additional tasks to ensuring full working hours coverage of all duty queries for NDS will be to take part in initiatives to help address the significant waiting lists in NDS such as "Keeping In Touch" calls.
As the Duty clinician in the team, the successful applicant will also be asked to assist in other business critical tasks as they emerge.
To contribute to assuring service quality by employing specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of neurodevelopment and mental health theories for children and adolescents.
To maintain high standards of professional clinical practice when supporting the children and young people under the care of the service. To be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.
To contribute to training, research, and audit as well as interpret complex data to develop understanding of self and others in relation to child and adolescent mental health disorders.
About us
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached document
For further details, please contact:
Name
Nathan Appasamy
Job title
Clinical Service Lead, Southwark CAMHS NDS
Email address
Nathan.appasamy@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number
02032288416
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached document
For further details, please contact:
Name
Nathan Appasamy
Job title
Clinical Service Lead, Southwark CAMHS NDS
Email address
Nathan.appasamy@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number
02032288416
Person Specification
Qulifcations/Registrations
Essential
- oRegistered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist. OR oFirst level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. Desirable Requirements OR oFirst level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. oExperience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity. oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary setting. oExperience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases. oExperience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- oSpecialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. oKnowledge of key legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues. oAwareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training. oSkills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes. oAbility to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. oAbility to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials. oAbility to work as an independent practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision. oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning. oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
Person Specification
Qulifcations/Registrations
Essential
- oRegistered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist. OR oFirst level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. Desirable Requirements OR oFirst level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. oExperience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity. oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary setting. oExperience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases. oExperience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- oSpecialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families, particularly of those young people with neurodevelopmental needs. oKnowledge of key legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues. oAwareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training. oSkills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes. oAbility to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. oAbility to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials. oAbility to work as an independent practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision. oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning. oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Sunshine House
Sunshine House | 27 Peckham Road |London | SE5 8UH
Peckham
SE5 8UH
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
