Senior CAMHS CBT Therapist inShooters Hill inShooters Hill PUBLISHED WED 23 OCT 2024
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust rGNKMGB5
Key responsibilities include completing initial assessments, offering formulation-driven CBT treatment for various conditions such as anxiety disorders, OCD, and depression, acting as a care coordinator, and potentially supervising junior clinicians. The role allows for flexible working hours and opportunities for remote work.
Greenwich CAMHS is a well-established team that values creative service development and supports professional growth. The service operates extended hours and is located at Highpoint House, accessible by various transport options with free parking available. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has a positive reputation for staff support and service quality.
The Generic Team of Greenwich CAMHS is pleased to offer a permanent Senior CBT Therapist. The role includes providing assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Greenwich CAMHS offers services to children, young people and families between the hours of 8.30am and 6pm, in order to improve accessibility for school-aged children and working care-givers. These extended hours also mean there is greater flexibility for working hours for the staff team. We also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
The Generic Team is a highly experienced and established multidisciplinary team. It is comprised of a diverse and specialist group of professionals from different backgrounds. We are also welcoming of trainees in all disciplines and currently have trainees in art therapy, family and systemic therapy, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. We work with a wide range of age groups (0-17 years) and clinical presentations.
You would join Greenwich CAMHS at an exciting time of service development. Greenwich CAMHS and partner agencies are currently in the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich. As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. You will work in this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary team and may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians. You will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives to meet the needs of the population.
About us
The post is with the Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS.The Generic Team is a highly experienced multidisciplinary team comprised of psychiatry, family therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, childrens wellbeing practitioners, and psychology at various levels of seniority.This Senior CBT Therapist role is to provide assessment, formulation and evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people with complex mental health problems and their families. The role involves delivery of individual, family and group interventions. The role may also involve specialist consultation, support, and training to colleagues within and external to the service. The successful candidate would contribute to a busy and large MDT, working within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
As a Senior CBT Therapist you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. The job plan will include contributing to initial assessments which are robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence-based CBT treatment for a wide range of complex presentations, including different anxiety disorders, OCD and depression. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. In addition, you may contribute to the supervision of more junior clinicians.
Greenwich CAMHS is based at Highpoint House on Shooters Hill in Plumstead and is accessible by different bus routes from several different South Eastern train stations. There is free parking on site, nearby streets and at the large car park at the adjacent Memorial Hospital.We also offer agile working, with opportunities to work from home as appropriate and using different technologies to support administrative and clinical tasks.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. The Trust and CAMHS have been rated as Good by the CQC and has a culture of supporting staff, whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
For more information please see the Job Description attached.
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