CAMHS Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ,
London, Greater London
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Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Spring team is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced CAMHS Practitioner, who has an interest in working with children and adolescents that present with mental health and significant behavioural difficulties. The Spring Team works closely with the Lambeth local authority at Tier 2 level, offering assessment and brief interventions to children, young people and their families. We are specifically interested in staff with additional training in evidence based therapeutic interventions. You will need to have the ability to deliver a range of interventions for children and young people. Close working relationships with members of the team and partnership agencies e.g. Social Services, Education and others is essential. You must demonstrate an interest in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work and be familiar with evidence-based practice. There are excellent opportunities for CPD, in service teaching and supervision within the team and the trust. You must be able to work independently and have good clinical/therapeutic and case management skills. Lambeth is an inner city, ethnically diverse community so a good understanding of diversity issues is important. About the location: 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, 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 from keyworker 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. 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: Natasha Hutchinson natasha.hutchinson@slam.nhs.uk / 020 3228 6783 Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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