Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner FDT | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking an enthusiastic Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS experience. The successful candidate will coordinate the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team, conduct assessments, and provide specialist advice and interventions. This role is integral to supporting the diverse mental health needs of children and young people in Newham, reflecting the Trust's values of care, respect, and inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and creative mental health practitioner with CAMHS experience.
• Ability to provide specialist advice, consultations, and assessments.
• Experience in clinical supervision and line management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team.
• Conduct Front Door Triage Assessments.
• Co-facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups.

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS experience to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham.

This post will include the provision of specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and mental health assessment, specialised clinical interventions and liaison with other agencies.

The role is to assist with the coordination of the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team, which will include Clinical Supervision, Line management Supervision, referral management, pathway development in partnership with the leads of this pathway, and conduct Front Door Triage Assessments. There will also be an opportunity to provide brief interventions and co-facilitate Psychoeducational/therapeutic Groups.

Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Pediatrics Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Looked After Children Team and Social Care/Families First Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (approximately 130 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and runs a rolling training programme for Tier 1 workers.

Please see the attached full job description to review the essentials and desirables for this role.

Please contact Loveness Kanzara if you have any questions related to this post; [e-mail].

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.

Key Relationships

• Clinical Team Leads, FDT
• Children, young people and their families
• General Manager CAMHS
• CAMHS Senior Management Group
• Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
• Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, health, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
• Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc

Advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025.