CAMHS Parenting Lead inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 23 DEC 2023

Band 8a: £59,490 to £66,239 a year pa inc  PERMANENT 

The role also entails providing highly specialist assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS and specialist advice and consultation to external agencies. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required. They will contribute to the development, implementation and audit services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours.

This role is based in Greenwich CAMHS as the parenting lead across the service. The postholder will also contribute to the clinical delivery of the Early Intervention Team (EIT) which provides training, consultation, supervision, and brief focused clinical interventions to schools across Greenwich borough. In addition to these services the post holder will have a specific role within the wider CAMHS service to lead on the continued development of a parenting strategy to facilitate evidence-based parenting interventions across pathways in partnership with the clinical lead. This relates to the dissemination of evidence-based practices as part of Children and Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) and coordination / provision of high-quality supervision and parenting skill development within the workforce. Part of the role will be to supervise both CAMHS professionals delivering parenting interventions and to co-ordinate, organise and supervise groups for parents of children and young people with challenging behaviour (e.g., Incredible Years, Non-violent Resistance) in partnership with managers and the relevant head of discipline.

  1. To provide highly specialist assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.


  1. To formulate and implement plans for the formal therapeutic treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.


  1. To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional


  1. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group

The role also entails providing highly specialist assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS and specialist advice and consultation to external agencies. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required. They will contribute to the development, implementation and audit services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours.

This role is based in Greenwich CAMHS as the parenting lead across the service. The postholder will also contribute to the clinical delivery of the Early Intervention Team (EIT) which provides training, consultation, supervision, and brief focused clinical interventions to schools across Greenwich borough. In addition to these services the post holder will have a specific role within the wider CAMHS service to lead on the continued development of a parenting strategy to facilitate evidence-based parenting interventions across pathways in partnership with the clinical lead. This relates to the dissemination of evidence-based practices as part of Children and Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) and coordination / provision of high-quality supervision and parenting skill development within the workforce. Part of the role will be to supervise both CAMHS professionals delivering parenting interventions and to co-ordinate, organise and supervise groups for parents of children and young people with challenging behaviour (e.g., Incredible Years, Non-violent Resistance) in partnership with managers and the relevant head of discipline.

  1. To provide highly specialist assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.


  1. To formulate and implement plans for the formal therapeutic treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.


  1. To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional


  1. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group



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