# CAMHS Practitioner

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a passionate and innovative clinician to join the Enhanced Treatment Team within Kensington and Chelsea CAMHs service.

The Enhanced Treatment Team is a specialist sub-team that sits within the wider CAMHs service. We are a friendly and dynamic team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, family therapy, DBT/CBT and child psychotherapy. Enhanced clinicians hold a small though complex caseload, supporting families, young people and their networks where there may be significant trauma, complex risk and social adversity.

The postholder will be required to take on either a safeguarding lead role, domestic abuse specialist advisor or Participation lead. This role requires on-site working with the possibility of working from home for one day a week. Presence is required in the clinic on Tuesdays & Fridays.

The main duties of the job include:

- Provide generic assessments of children and young people with complex Mental Health and Social Care needs.

- Formulate and implement Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person's problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and NICE guidelines.

- Be responsible for implementing a range of therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across CAMHS.

- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options with MD Team considering therapeutic models and complex factors concerning that have shaped the individual, family or group.

- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people.

- Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

The salary for this role is £58,133 to £65,261 per annum.

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## Skills

### Required
- Post-graduate training and qualification in a therapeutic discipline
- Registration with HCPC, BABCP, NMC, ACP or UKCP
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and preferably CAMHS team

### Nice to have
- Post-qualification training in additional CAMHS related specialised work
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- CYP IAPT training
- Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession

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