Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in mental health is seeking a Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to provide specialist assessments and therapeutic support to children and young people facing emotional and behavioral difficulties. The role involves working within a multi-disciplinary team to improve mental health services across North London. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in child and adolescent mental health, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively with various agencies. The position may require travel to different locations across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Must have a relevant mental health qualification.
• Experience in assessing and delivering therapeutic interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist assessments and plan interventions for mental health problems.
• Provide therapeutic support using evidence-based practices.
• Participate in the duty rota for urgent referrals and crises.

Skills

Assessment and therapy skills

Collaboration and liaison abilities

Evidence-based therapeutic support

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

Overview

Generic CAMHS support children / young people and their families where there is concern about emotional or behavioural difficulties. Assessment and therapy can be provided to children, young people, and families, where appropriate CAMHS clinicians consult with other professionals. As a Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in our multi-disciplinary team, you will be assessing young people, delivering evidence-based therapeutic support, and contributing to the overall development and provision of the service. The service is based at Bay Tree House, Enfield, EN2 6NZ. However, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts interests, including travelling to appropriate meetings, outside of the borough, as required. Clinical appointments are provided at both the service base and in local special schools and other multi-agency settings. Joint working, consultation and liaison with other professionals, services and agencies are a regular feature of the work within a CAMHS setting.

Responsibilities

• Provision of specialist assessments with 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 client’s care, when and where appropriate.
• Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluation and decision making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
• Participation in service-wide activity as required, including multi-agency collaboration and attendance at relevant meetings.

Additional Information

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:

1. Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. Offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. Be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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.

General duties

• All CAMHS clinicians are required to participate in the team duty rota, providing same-day support for urgent referrals, risk assessments, and responding to crises, ensuring the immediate safety and well-being of young people and their families.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their care.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, clinical letters and reports writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the relevant professional body and Trust policies and procedures.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Before submitting your application, please ensure you have the correct right to work. Guidance on if this post will be eligible for a sponsorship can be found here Skilled Worker visa: If you work in healthcare or education - GOV.UK

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025