# CAMHS Practitioner-Complex Needs Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-practitioner-complex-needs-team/e3ee2c7d-12c1-44bf-be76-9709644c7d8b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-practitioner-complex-needs-team/e3ee2c7d-12c1-44bf-be76-9709644c7d8b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCA Pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-15T12:21:49.711Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8157692 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8157692?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [camhs practitioner – complex needs team (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10458120) - [camhs practitioner – complex needs team (pdf, 712.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10458119) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.