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Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Hampstead; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioners to work within the Haringey CWP Team. The role includes training at King’s College London and delivering guided self-help to children and young people aged 4–17 with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

You will work with families, participate in MDT discussions, and engage with local communities. Successful applicants will receive supervision and ongoing professional development, with a start date

Qualifications

• Applicants must be ready to start in early/mid-January 2027.
• Training will take place at King's College London alongside NHS service delivery.
• Supervision will be provided to support professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based guided self-help interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Deliver interventions in the community, including participation activities, training and group delivery.
• Receive supervision to support professional development and actively engage with local communities.

Job description

Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust

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Salary: £34,186 - £37,389 per annum, inclusive of HCAS

The Haringey CWP team are recruiting 3 trainee CWPs to continue to improve children and young people's mental health services in Haringey. The training forms part of the service transformation initiative delivered by NHS England as part of the Children and Young People's Mental Health CYP Psychological Trainings (PT) (formerly CYP IAPT) programmes.

Haringey CWP Team, work with children and families aged 4-17. We provide individual CBT and some group interventions/workshops, as well as parent training interventions to parents and young people with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, or challenging behaviour. The team also has an active role in community engagement, offering trainings to universal services and service user involvement projects. The team includes one CWP lead/supervisor, 3 trainee CWPs, with strong links with a generic CAMHS team (Family Mental Health Team) including regular opportunities to take part in MDT discussions.

The team values a supportive working environment, continued professional development and career advancement.

This is a training position post holder will undertake training at King's College London alongside working in service for the Haringey CWP Team. They will be taught to deliver evidence-based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will also be taught how to deliver interventions in the community, for example, participation activities, training and group delivery. The post holder will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development, as well as be expected to actively engage local communities.

Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2027 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Please see the attached Job Description (contains person specification) for more information on the role requirements and duties.

This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Sep 2026