NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-6924619
Site: Michael Rutter Centre
Town: London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inc of HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
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 providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission 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 have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported by 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
National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit enthusiastic and skilled Principal (band 8b) CAMHS Practitioner to joint-manage the Outpatient Team at the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED). The post holder will manage a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing specialist assessment, formulation and treatment to young people with eating disorders, and their families.
We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to more senior positions. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders.
Main duties of the job
1. An opportunity to manage and lead a highly specialist, multi-disciplinary child and adolescent eating disorder service.
2. Supervise and manage a range of senior clinicians providing specialist clinical interventions.
3. Deliver and supervise individual, family and group therapy interventions for young people with eating disorders and their families.
4. Take on a senior leadership position within the wider MCCAED service.
5. Lead on several areas of service development and staff wellbeing.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and a wide range of restaurants.
Flexible Working
As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role, you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work-life balance. You may also be required to work up until 6.30pm to cover meals on a rotated basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Manage and lead the multi-disciplinary team of specialist clinicians supporting young people with eating disorders and their family members.
2. Deliver highly specialist individual, family, group and multi-family clinical interventions.
3. Provide high quality supervision and management to senior MCCAED team members.
4. Deliver national and international teaching, consultation and training in the models of treatment offered at MCCAED.
5. Oversee the operational management of the service, including rostering, leave management, performance management and recruitment.
6. Work closely with the senior leadership team within MCCAED.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Qualifications and Professional Registration: Entry-level qualification - appropriately registered Clinical/Counselling psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist, Psychotherapist, Nurse, CBT Therapist, IPTA (A/I).
* Completed training course in clinical supervision. (A/I/R)
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by relevant Professional body e.g. HCPC/UKCP, RCN.
* PhD in psychology / family therapy / child mental health or equivalent.
Experience
* Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in eating disorders. (A/I)
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in eating disorders. (A/I)
* Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training. (A/I)
* Experience of providing teaching and training to psychologists or other professional groups. (A/I)
* Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. (A/I)
* Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects. (A/I)
* Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area. (A/I)
* Record of publications in either peer-reviewed, academic or professional journals/books. (A/I)
* The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do. (A/I)
* Experience providing supervision to Band 8a and 7 psychologists, trainee psychologist and other staff members in the field of eating disorders. (A/I)
* Experience supporting team leads with service-coordination and development. (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for child and adolescent eating disorders. (A/I)
* Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for family and individual therapies for child and adolescent eating disorders. (A/I)
* Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics in eating disorders. (A/I)
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. (A/I)
* Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis. (A/I)
* Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care. (A/I)
Skills
* To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences. (A/I)
* To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ. (A/I)
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data. (A/I)
* To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
* Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups. (A/I)
* To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and to organise meetings such as CPAs and case reviews, and joint activities with staff of partner agencies. (A/I)
* To be expert in the skilled administration of psychometric tests, including skilled manipulation of test materials; and to be able to supervise others in administration of psychometric tests.
* To plan projects and work schedules for groups of psychologists. (A/I)
Abilities
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I)
* Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings. (A/I)
* Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these. (A/I)
* Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I)
* Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self. (A/I)
* Ability to manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of physical interventions as prescribed by Trust policies. (A/I)
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.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Please read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only and the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* 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.
* Should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* 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.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
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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.
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