Job Description

Our Southwark CAMHS community-based team are seeking enthusiastic, motivated clinicians as we are recruiting for two CAMHS Clinical Specialist posts. We are hoping you will be interested and excited by the prospect of working mainly with children and young people in care or who have been adopted and with their carers/parents. The first post will be providing specialist assessment and treatment to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) referred to the team. The second post will be offering assessment and treatment and support transition for young people who are turning 18 into adult services and contribute to the development of models of assessment, treatment across the CAMHS/Adult care pathway.

Carelink is a specialist Tier 3 CAMHS service, closely linked to our partnership agencies, aiming to offer a holistic service to our children and young people (0-18 years), to assist with their emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. You will be working within a supportive CAMHS multi-disciplinary team which puts an emphasis on offering treatment and interventions. The team is multi-disciplinary made up of Child Psychotherapists and is psychotherapy led (we have a group of child psychotherapy trainees on long term placements); Psychologists; Systemic/Family Therapist; Nursing colleagues; Social Workers; Drama therapist; Occupational Therapy and a special interest in working with under 5s. We have Psychiatry input on a sessional basis. The post-holder will undertake comprehensive CAMHS assessments of children and young people up to age 18 and make recommendations for treatment. The post-holder will have a therapeutic caseload, offering therapy to children in care or adopted children with complex needs including experiences of trauma connected to histories of maltreatment and attachment difficulties. You will also be working the parents/carers offering them support and guidance. You will have the ability to deliver a range of interventions for children and young people. Close working relationships with members of the team and our partnership agencies will be essential e.g. Social Services, Child Health, Education and Virtual School. Applicants must be able to work independently and have good clinical/therapeutic and case management knowledge and skills. The post-holder may take on clinical supervision for other team members.

The team is based in a modern dedicated health centre with good facilities for meeting with our families and children.



SLaM wants you to feel like you are part of a close knit team. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that's why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Highlights include:

Generous pay, pensions and leave. SLaM offers a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on role and length of service.



Work-life balance. SLaM offer s flexible working and supports part-time working and job sharing.



Career development. SLaM provides 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. SLaM staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.



Accommodation. SLaM staff benefits from keyworker housing, available on selected sites.



NHS discounts. SLaM staff are eligible for discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though health service discount websites.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services.



Wellbeing events.



Long service awards.



Cycle to work scheme.



Season ticket loan.



Childcare vouchers.



Staff restaurants.

For a full list of our benefits please visit:

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/media/421262/Working%20at%20SLaM.pdf

Job Purpose:

This is a specialist post focussing on delivering a CAMHS service to child and young people in care and focusing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) who are under the age of 18.



To spend 0.6 WTE providing specialist assessment and treatment to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) referred to Southwark CAMHS. The remaining 0.4 WTE will be spent providing specialist assessment and treatment for other looked after and adopted children and young people aged 0-18 years.



To manage your own caseload and provide specialist therapeutic interventions to include work with parent and child together, individual work, parent work and family work. Also, direct work with children (e.g. psychotherapy/art therapy/play therapy/DBT/CBT) with both short term and long term interventions.



Post holder will share responsibility with senior colleagues for ensuring that staff within the team achieve positive clinical outcomes for children, young people and their families and that these are evidenced by performance indicators such as activity data, targets and quality outcome measures and implementation of NICE guidance.