Camhs Practitioner

North London Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 63,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS practitioner to provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families with complex mental health needs, aligned with NICE guidelines.

Based in Barnet and across local CAMHS networks, the post involves care coordination, working under supervision, and collaborating with colleagues from multiple disciplines to develop coordinated care plans.

Qualifications

• Qualification in a core mental health profession.
• Specialist training in one of the main therapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT).
• Evidence of well-developed clinical and communication skills.
• Experience in family therapy and multi-agency partnership.
• UK registration and safeguarding awareness.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments of children and young people using diverse data sources.
• Plan and implement formal psychological treatment and management of mental health problems.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
• Evaluate treatment options considering theoretical and clinical factors.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication

Teamwork

Risk assessment

Education

Core mental health profession qualification

CBT training

Safeguarding training

Job description

CAMHS Practitioner
The closing date is 16 September 2026

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as CAMHS practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people and their families, who present with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs and who often also have co-existing neurodevelopmental conditions and needs.

The role primarily entails providing CAMHS assessments and therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service, in line with the clinical formulation and NICE guidelines.

Barnet CAMHS use the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families. The Framework is needs-led and are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. The post sits predominantly sits within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.

You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

• 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?

• 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 and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Details

Date posted: 11 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year
Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-8196097
Job locations: Edgware Community Hospital - Holly Oak Clinic, Burnt Oak Broadway, LONDON, HA8 0AD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.

To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• Qualification in a core mental health profession: oClinical or Counselling Psychology oSystemic Family Psychotherapy oPsychotherapy (including Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy)
• Specialist training in one of the main therapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT) Additional training in therapeutic modality Relevant training on safeguarding and child protection.
• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills. Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with children and adolescents and their families/care networks with complex needs. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown.
• Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Child and Adolescent mental health. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups. Teaching skills in clinical settings.
• Previous experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting. Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents across thefull range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of well-developed clinical skills. Working knowledge and competence in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience in setting up and facilitating groups. Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Child and Adolescent mental health.

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).

UK Registration

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

CAMHS Practitioner LONDON, United Kingdom