CAMHS Specialist PractitionerinLewishaminLewishamPUBLISHED MON 3 MAR 2025
In this pivotal role, you’ll be providing essential assessments and evidence-based interventions for young people dealing with mild to moderate mental health challenges. You’ll lead a small team of Children Wellbeing Practitioners, ensuring that our services not only bridge gaps in care but also foster strong connections within the community. Collaborating with schools, GPs, and other organisations, you’ll offer practical support through therapeutic approaches, psychoeducation, and creative therapies that resonate strongly with young people and their families. If you're passionate about empowering the next generation and thrive in collaborative settings, we want to hear from you!
o An exciting opportunity to join the GP-led Youth Clinic in Lewisham, an innovative service which is an integrated primary care and mental health service for young people aged 13-25.o We have a vacancy for a Band 7, based in our community clinics in Lewisham and CAMHS CWP Team.
o The overall aim of the GP-led Youth Clinic is to increase access to high quality primary care and mental health services for young people in their community.
o The second part of the role is to function as a specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for the recruitment to train Child Well Being Practitioners (CWPs) initiative.
You will be responsible for the provision of assessments, formulation and evidence-based intervention for young people aged 13-18. Aiming to intervene early through evidence-based interventions and cooperation with community organisations.
You would work with mild to moderate mental health difficulties by providing emotional and practical support through a variety of approaches including evidence based therapeutic work, psychoeducation, play and/or art, psychoeducation for families. Liaising with our GPs, schools, other statutory services and voluntary sector within the community.
You will manage your caseload and provide specialist intervention to young people and families who do not meet the mainstream CAMHS threshold. You play one of the crucial roles in bridging some gap between mainstream CAMHS and CWP teams as well as clinical and community settings.
You will be taking part in triage meetings and screening referrals made by GPs, as well as supporting allocation of cases within the GP-led Clinic team. At the Lewisham CWP team as a CAMHS Specialist Practitioner, you are responsible for leading and supervising a small team of Children Wellbeing Practitioner team and trainees as well as supporting the team in triaging cases and offering support as a duty clinician.
You will clinically work within community on a defined caseload in conjunction with SLaM CAMHS providing psychological assessment.
About us
As the CAMHS Specialist Practitioner, you will work four days per week at the GP youth clinic sites, leading and supporting the development of the GP Youth clinic, bridging positive partnership and communication. Post-holder needs to work flexibly to meet the need for clinic time.Working with referred young people and seeing young people on a drop-in basis in the GP youth clinic.
At the CWP team you will be responsible for leading and supervising a small team of Children Wellbeing Practitioner team and trainees as well as playing an important role in managing the delivery of the three functions of the CWP:
Sharing triage duty and screening incoming referrals for clinical suitability for the Children Wellbeing Practitioner team. Supporting the senior mental health lead in supporting trainees and qualified CWPs' clinical work, ensuring the quality of care and safeguarding risks. Alliance with other internal and external colleagues from other services, working in a multidisciplinary team in a diverse community.
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