Specialist CAMHS Practitioner-CNT/EIS

Job overview

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, including early signs of psychosis. 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 holder 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.