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Tower Hamlets Specialist CAMHS
CAMHS Specialist Practitioner Complex Needs Team - Family Therapist, OT or Clincal Psychologist
Band 7 - Substantive
Full time 37.5hours
Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running?
Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Tower Hamlets are evolving and changing, wanting the very best services for our children and young people. We are developing and transforming our local Tower Hamlets CAMHS Services offers with the increased need for support to young people with severe and complex mental health needs. We are looking for someone like you to join our CAMHS Complex Needs team! Do you have what it takes?
Main duties of the job
The post holders will be part of a multidisciplinary team offering goal-based and outcome focused episodes of care to young people, children and families presenting with various severe and complex mental health difficulties. The post will give the successful candidates a unique perspective and ability to work collaboratively with other clinical pathways in TH CAMHS, trialing and innovating new methods of responding to young people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties with underlying vulnerabilities and/or contextual adversity and accompanied high risk requiring more than routine care over a longer period of time.
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and can work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts and deliver treatment tailored to CYP needs. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; a commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details.
You will have the qualifications and experience to work in a busy and sometimes challenging Tier 3 CAMHS service. For more information please contact: Dr Hanspeter Dorner, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Clinical Team Lead [email protected] / Tel: 02074262375.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families.
- Legislation relating to children & young people
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London
- An understanding of equal opportunities
Experience
Essential
- Two years post registration experience in mental health
- Experience of working with children and young people’s mental health
- To have the ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing children and young people who present with complex mental health needs and/or EIS
- Experience of assessing and managing risk in service users with complex needs and/or EIS
- Experience of assessing children and young people who present with complex mental health needs including neurovariance
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties, including the provision of specific psychological or systemic or occupational interventions
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification in clinical psychology and/or family therapy and/or occupational therapy
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration training e.g. Mentorship, Training, CBT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Family Therapy etc.
- Evidence of relevant CAMHS training
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- To conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments including specialist assessments e.g. cognitive assessments, neurovariance assessments etc.
- Be familiar with case formulation and appropriate care planning
- To manage own caseload effectively
- Willing to embrace change creatively
- Able to sensitively liaise and consult to fellow professionals and other agencies
Desirable
- To have teaching skills
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This advert is for CAMHS Practitioner-Complex Needs Team with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCA Pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Aug 2026.
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