Specialist Camhs Practitioner

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Mental Health in Schools Support Team (MHST) Specialist Clinician

Band 7 - Full Time -Fixed Term

City & Hackney CAMHS are excited to be recruiting to a full time post as a Specialist Clinician for the Mental Health in Schools Support Team.

The Mental Health Support Team in City & Hackney, which commenced in 2019, aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to help and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU’s. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.

The role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change. We aim to deliver whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health. The post holder will supervise trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) trainees.

We are looking for a confident CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence based interventions, improving service quality with a strong interest in service development. You will be either a Nurse, Social Worker, OT, Psychotherapist, Family Therapist or Psychologist with the requisite professional registration.

The role will include helping to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health.

In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties this post is an opportunity to work with school staff and school cultures in developing school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and well being.

The post also involves supervising more junior members of the Mental Health Support Teams.

The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. City & Hackney have been successful in being a Wave 2 site benefitting from significant investment in this area. There is a specific focus on developing more access to help and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU’s. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.

In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, the post-holders will clinically and operationally lead a diverse range of professionals who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools across the borough.

We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of our multicultural context.

Please see JD & PS for further details.



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