Bank Highly Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioner

Job overview

We are seeking enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist CAMHS ASD Practitioners with considerable Neurodevelopmental CAMHS experience, to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham.  This post is open to applicants from all of the core professions: Psychology, Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Nursing, Social Work and Occupational Therapy.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and vibrant multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health team. There is a strong culture of support for staff with a number of reflective group spaces, in addition to supervision, such as the Challenging Race and Inequalities group.  New ideas and innovative practice are welcomed and our thriving service user participation group works collaboratively with staff to develop projects.  We encourage staff proactively to access learning and teaching opportunities within CAMHS and the wider NHS Trust, as well as on accredited courses.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for applicants who has experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working within an inter-culturally community. This post is part of a comprehensive Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, within the East London NHS Foundation Trust.  This is a community based post in Newham CAMHS to work with the Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT).

The post holder will be expected to conduct specialist CAMHS assessments for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, in particular ADHD, offering evidenced based clinical interventions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holders would directly contribute to and support a positive working environment with the Multidisciplinary team and expected to offer supervision and management to more junior clinical staff (band 7 and below).  This is a community-based post, which also requires a high degree of professional autonomy and self management. The post holder will receive clinical supervision from someone within the same professional discipline.

Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Paediatric Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Looked After Children Team and Social Care/Families First Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (approximately 50 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and training.