Senior CAMHS Practitioner- Social Worker

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic social worker to join Greenwich CAMHS. The post-holder will provide high quality specialist assessments, consultations, and evidence based therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting with severe mental health difficulties.

The post holder must be a good team worker and be able to lead in areas of clinical practice and development and will be responsible for working independently and managing a caseload of young people, ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.

The post holder will work within the multi-disciplinary team developing a mentalisation-based approach to working with adolescents with complex mental health presentations.

Main duties of the job

  • To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
  • To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation
  • To engage therapeutically with young people and their carers in a variety of settings.
  • To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
  • To be able to assess and manage risk in children and young people and to do this on an on-going basis within the role as care coordinator.
  • To communicate risks often effectively and appropriately under difficult, circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
  • To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
  • To work closely with the school based and community health professionals, carrying out joint assessments when appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification
  • Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years) together with CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A
  • Registration with relevant Professional body

Experience

Essential

  • At least 2 years post registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.
  • Experience of working within a high risk setting

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area

Effort and Environment

Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to work under pressure and respond to emergency situations as appropriate
  • The ability to engage and work with clients in differing environments in line with the needs of the service
  • A flexible approach to client intervention and to be able to work independently and flexibly to meet client needs

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.