CAMHS/MHST Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A public healthcare organization in London seeks an experienced CAMH/CMHS practitioner for the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service. The role involves delivering mental health interventions for children, supporting educational leads, and providing clinical supervision within a hybrid working environment. Applicants should hold a relevant mental health qualification and demonstrate strong collaboration skills. This position aims to improve the quality of life for children and young people, embracing a proactive approach to mental health support.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with mental health issues.
• Ability to deliver clinical supervision and line management.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with schools and external services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver interventions for children and young people.
• Support senior mental health lead in educational settings.
• Provide advice and liaise with external services.

Skills

Evidence-based interventions

Clinical supervision

Collaboration with educational staff

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMH/CMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

Core Functions

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
• Provide timely advice to school and college staff, and liaise with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. It includes providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder’s training and interests), and acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This service is based in a newly refurbished office in the vibrant borough of Whitechapel.

As a result of the COVID pandemic, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face-to-face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for further details of role requirements.

For further information about this role, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail].

This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026.