Martin Smith, EN, RMN, ENB998, PG Teaching in Higher Education, PG Dual Diagnosis (complexity), PG Social Research Methods.  

Martin has a background of 30 years as a CAMHS clinician working co-located, collaboratively and dynamically with most agencies that support children and families.

He is a highly experienced CAMHS clinical practitioner working collaboratively with youth justice, probation, social care and education. Martin’s experience as a Senior Lecturer and simultaneous clinical experience, with his academic background at the Tavistock Clinic and Middlesex University empowers him to deliver robust evidenced based trainings linking theory, practice and policy.  

His experiences include setting up and delivering the cross discipline and agency Postgraduate CAMHS programmes at the Middlesex University. He also taught the preregistered Social Work Life Span Development programme and the Post Registered Dual Diagnosis.

He provides individual and group reflective supervision across differing services including CAMHS, Early Help, social care, probation services and education.

Martin can provide cross-agency support and advice (including prisons) on high risk cases with  criminal forensic components.  

Martin has a substantial portfolio of publications and has written for Young Minds, Community Care, as well as a national and international reputation in publishing research, teaching and policy. One of his more recent publications being part of an international European Funded Project addressing the impact of parental mental health on children.  

Whilst at the Middlesex University, Martin worked collaboratively with other European universities on the international Camille Project. He cooperated with the Public Health England Advisory Board the document, The Role of Nurses in Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services - A resource for commissioners, providers and clinicians. Martin contributed to the Standards for Children and Young People Document in Emergency Care Settings in collaboration with an intercollegiate committee at the Royal College of Paediatrics. Martin is also a member of  the National Consortium of Nurses in Dual Diagnosis.

Martins pedagogic interests are complexity in mental health and substance misuse as well as parental mental health and impact on children.

He currently delivers CPD courses for NELFT and the Tavistock Clinic and the Høgskulen på Vestlandet (Norway). Those courses include CAMHS Triage, Advanced Clinical Risk, Recovery Approach (Young People and Adults, Dual Diagnosis and Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children. Martin peer reviews for the Journal Advances in Dual Diagnosis.

Martin remains a visiting lecturer and examiner for the London South Bank University, Roehampton University and Middlesex University.