Advanced CAMHS Practitioner

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Job summary

A reputable healthcare provider in Croydon is seeking an Advanced CAMHS Practitioner. This role involves managing care contacts, clinical assessments, and providing support to children and young people with mental health difficulties. Candidates must have a relevant first-level qualification and be professionally registered. The position offers an opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the ongoing improvement of mental health services for diverse communities.

Qualifications

• Experience in CAMHS assessment and treatment of clients with complex psychological needs.
• Ability to communicate complex information sensitively.

Responsibilities

• Process referrals and conduct triage assessments for young people.
• Provide advice, education, and support to service users and families.
• Work autonomously within guidelines, making treatment decisions.

Skills

Knowledge of mental health issues

Communication skills

Teamwork

Crisis intervention

Education

First level nursing qualification / registration (RMN, RSCN or HV)

Professional registration with NMC, BABCP or UKCP

Recognised therapeutic qualification

Job description

Employer South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Croydon CAMHS Town Croydon Salary £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 04/02/2026 23:59

Advanced CAMHS Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Croydon CAMHS is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an Advanced CAMHS practitioner who would like to further develop their skills in Community CAMHS referral management, care contact, triage and risk management with children & young people with a range of emotional well-being and/or mental health (including neuropsychiatric) difficulties.

The post is in the Croydon Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Single Point of Contact (EWMH SPOC) Team.

This post would be suitable as a secondment opportunity.

The successful candidate will have a first level nursing qualification / registration RMN, RSCN or HV or first level qualification in OT, clinical or counselling psychology, systemic psychotherapy, social work, or equivalent in art, play, drama or music therapy. All applications will require professional registration

with a statutory body: the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social Care Council, UK Council for Psychotherapy or Health & Care Professional's Council.

Main duties of the job

Duties will include processing of referrals, care contacts and triage assessments as well as risk management planning for children and young people with emotional wellbeing and / or mental health needs, making appropriate referral recommendations as well as the provision of advice, education and support to service users and their carers or family members.

Knowledge of and skills in working with young people with acute mental health needs and/or a range of complex neuropsychiatric disorders is essential for this post.

Working for our organisation

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will join the Croydon’s Emotional Well-being & Mental Health Single Point of Contact (EWMH SPOC), team of multi-disciplinary professionals, who provide referral screening, initial care contact and triage for children and/or young people with emotional well-being and/or mental health (including neuropsychiatric) difficulties, under supervision of the team leader and relevant clinical supervisor.

• To contribute to enabling other staff, EWMH partner agencies, 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 registry body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualification as a Core professional, RMN, Social work, Therapist etc.
• Registered with the NMC, BABCP or UKCP
• Mentorship Training/ Supervision Training and regular updates
• Additional, recognised therapeutic qualification

Experience

• Experience of CAMHS assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature including neurodevelopmental conditions
• Experience of working effectively within a multi‑disciplinary team
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
• The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
• Skills to communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication
• Skills to plan and schedule assessment and interventions for children and young people, their families / carer
• Communication and IT skills

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at‑risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke‑free Trust

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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.