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CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner (N&S OPD AAFS)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 per annum Incl. of HCAs
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
15 Jun 2025
Contract Type
Fixed term: 6 months (Maternity Cover)
Posted Date
02 Jun 2025

Job overview

We are delighted to be recruiting a 1 WTE Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist to join our team on a 9-month fixed term basis for maternity cover. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a responsive, specialist service for young people and families who present with high risk alongside complex mental health needs and neurodiversity. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to consolidate skills in formulation, intervention, and risk management within a skilled and supportive clinical team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a specialist clinical service to the Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service, National and Specialist CAMHS. Main duties include:

  • Highly specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, high-risk behaviours (e.g., self-harm, aggression, sexual offending) and/ or risk of exploitation (sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and neuropsychological assessments.
  • To provide direct and indirect evidence-based psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
  • To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
  • To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
  • To undertake 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will provide a specialist clinical service to the Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service, National and Specialist CAMHS. We are a friendly and supportive team committed to professional and personal development. We are committed to addressing inequality in access, experience and outcomes for children and staff from diverse backgrounds and take an anti-racist approach. Our team is made up of clinical psychologists, a forensic psychologist, a social worker, clinical psychology trainees, MSc placement students, and assistant psychologists. We are actively involved in research and have close links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, Doctoral Training Programme in Clinical Psychology. We recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and the positive impact this has on our staff and our service users. We welcome and actively encourage applications from those with lived experiences of mental health and care services and from black and minority groups.

Main duties include:

  • Highly specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, high-risk behaviours (e.g., self-harm, aggression, sexual offending) and/ or risk of exploitation (e.g., sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and neuropsychological assessments.
  • To provide direct and indirect evidence-based psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
  • To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
  • To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
  • To undertake 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.