About the team:

AID-IIT is a new and exciting national and specialist CAMHS outpatient service being developed to serve London. This service works closely/in collaboration with the Service for Complex Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SCAAND). AID-IIT aims to reduce or prevent where possible inpatient CAMHS admissions for children and young people with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism and to support these young people to continue to live within the community. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team including Clinical Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Assistant Psychologists, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist (also linked to Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Trust), Specialist Teacher (also linked to the National Autistic Society), Positive Behavioural Support workers, Social worker, Project Manager and Admin support.

The post is based at the Michael Rutter Centre which facilitates close working and support for the postholder with other staff across National and Specialist CAMHS.

About the role:

The postholder will work within the AID-IIT to provide specialist nursing input within the multi-disciplinary team including:

• Offering assessment and intervention to young people with highly complex presentations, their families and wider networks.
• To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training as appropriate.
• To contribute to care planning of young people by attending CETRs, CPAs and other professional/network meetings.
• To use routine outcome measures and to contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

About the location:

The Michael Rutter Centre is based on the Maudsley site. Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Benefits:

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. We support a range of flexible working 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 benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation. Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

For further details / informal visits contact:

NameDr Catherine ShollJob titleConsultant Clinical PsychologistEmail addresscatherine.sholl@slam.nhs.uk