# Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-camhs-practitioner/d69539a6-356d-43ae-b3a1-9edbf8cec2a2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-camhs-practitioner/d69539a6-356d-43ae-b3a1-9edbf8cec2a2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum Inc HCAs - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Full-time) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-30T15:41:13.386Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8386349 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8386349?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for a clinician who is passionate about working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets CAMHS is a friendly, thriving and innovative service; ELFT has a strong ethos of Quality Improvement, and we are keen to continually develop our service. The service includes professionals from various disciplines including psychiatry, nursing, social workers, psychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and family therapy, who come together to provide high-quality holistic care for young people and their families. ### Main duties of the job This is a community-based post, located within the Neurodevelopmental Team in Tower Hamlets CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the service. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The post holder will provide evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatment to young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability. The post holder will bring their clinical knowledge and skills to this team. NDT provide a broad range of evidence-based interventions including an established group programme (supporting behaviour, sleep, and a neuroaffirmative group for young people who have received recent diagnosis of ASC), Positive Behaviour Support, ASC assessment clinic, consultation to CAMHS colleagues and schools, and direct work with children and their families, which the post holder will contribute towards. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. For further information and/or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Farjana Nasrin, NDT Clinical Team Lead - \[email protected\]. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback - Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS, including Child Protection Guidelines - Knowledge of specific inner-city issues which impact on care delivery - Knowledge of standard setting and quality assurance - In-depth knowledge and current of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions **Desirable** - Knowledge of development in inter agency partnership ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working in CAMHS and/or experience in Adult Services for Learning Disability with clear evidence of transferable skills - Experience of specialist assessments and treatments for LD and behaviours that challenge - Experience of risk assessment and risk management Experience of working with children, young people, and families in emotional crisis - Experience of working with complex networks - Experience of outcome measures - Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour - Experience, skills, and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting - Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters - Experience of group work - Supervision training and/or experience of supervising others **Desirable** - Experience of quality improvement and innovative projects - Project management or service development - Experience of ASC assessments ### Knowledge, Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Specialist clinical skills within specific therapeutic modalities, in particular, Positive Behaviour Support intervention, behavioural/functional analysis - Evidence of highly specialist clinical skills and knowledge in working with children/young people and/or adults with moderate to severe learning disability - Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS - Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments - Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work flexibly according to need - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; at an age-appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers, and professionals within and outside the NHS - Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries - Skills in supervising and facilitating the development of skills in others (e.g., through consultation or training) - A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback - Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mental health problems/disorders (including young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability, presentations of behaviours of concern, assessment of co-morbid presentations) - Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional guidelines - Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation ### Education/Qualification/Training **Essential** - Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession including: Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health or LD) / Psychotherapist/ Occupational Therapist / Social Worker - Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g., BSc, Masters or Doctorate - Registration with your appropriate body (e.g., UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.) - Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period **Desirable** - Qualification as a Non-medical Prescriber - Autism assessment training e.g., 3Di training, ADOS training - Positive Behaviour Support training ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 460.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10715920) - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106) ## 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.