CAMHS Practitioner

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Barking; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior CAMHS clinician to lead, assess and intervene for children and families within the Barking and Dagenham area. The role supports a multi-disciplinary team and offers periodic remote work.

Join a Trust recognised for staff development and a commitment to high-quality care in a busy CAMHS setting, with focus on safeguarding and holistic family outcomes.

Qualifications

• Professionally registered mental health practitioner.
• Experience delivering assessments and interventions in CAMHS.
• Strong MDT collaboration and supervision skills.

Responsibilities

• MDT working to support collaborative care for children and families.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to junior clinicians.
• Direct practice: assess and intervene with diverse youth and families.

Skills

CBT therapy

Systemic family therapy

Clinical psychology

Counselling psychology

Job description

An exciting opportunity have arisen for a forward thinking and professionally registered mental health practitioner, CBT therapist/Systemic Family Therapist/Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, to join our forward thinking and innovative multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service.

Main duties of the job

The Child and Adolescent and Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Barking and Dagenham works under the I-THRIVE framework delivering assessments and interventions for children, young people, and their families, predominantly as part of the ‘Getting More Help’ and ‘Risk Support’ sections of this model which offer a wide arrange of interventions. The team also offer consultation and advice to professionals working with young people and families primarily with complex mental health needs.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

As a senior member of our established team, you will champion the delivery of high-quality care across the borough. While your clinical base will be our Barking clinic, we support modern working practices and offer provisions for occasional remote work.

Key responsibilities include:

• Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Working: The team works with a strong multi-disciplinary team (MDT) focus and the successful candidate will be expected contribute to MDT discussion to support a collaborative approach to support.
• Supervision & Mentorship: Providing clinical supervision and nurturing the growth of multi-disciplinary practitioners, helping to shape the next generation of clinicians.
• Direct Practice: Completing assessments and therapeutic interventions for a diverse range of young people and families.

Working Pattern

We are looking for a dedicated colleague to join us on a part-time basis. We welcome applications from individuals who bring a variety of lived experiences and professional backgrounds to our team.

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London (Barking and Dagenham)

post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI-generated content in applications.

Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.

We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.

Name: Chris Scalzo

Job title: Professional Clinical Lead

Contact Number: 0300 300 1751

Email: [e-mail]