# CAMHS Principal Clinical Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-principal-clinical-lead/aec222c5-ea55-4315-8548-0b3ee865510e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-principal-clinical-lead/aec222c5-ea55-4315-8548-0b3ee865510e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Stapleford House, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0QX, United Kingdom - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66582.00 to £77368.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-24T14:26:48.543Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9395-26-0479 - **Application URL:** https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=1900&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.nelft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary We are thrilled to announce the recruitment for a Clinical Lead for our SET CAMHS Locality Teams in MID Essex. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and passionate psychological professional to make a significant impact in the lives of young people and their families. ### Main duties of the job As a Clinical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care within our locality teams. You will be responsible for developing and overseeing a needs-led, evidence-based clinical model. At SET CAMHS, we adopt the iTHRIVE framework, which guides care provision across our teams and services. In this role, you will oversee the quality of clinical care within your hub while maintaining direct involvement in delivering exceptional interventions to young people and their families. ### About us NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. ### Details - Date posted: 24 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 8b - Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: SHX-3EL-001874 - Job locations: Stapleford House, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0QX, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities As a Clinical Lead, you will: - Lead and drive clinical improvements within the service, ensuring the delivery of the highest standards of care. - Collaborate with operational managers and partner agencies to provide integrated care. - Support and develop the workforce through supervision, consultation, and training. - Contribute your expertise within multidisciplinary team (MDT) and leadership meetings. - Hold a small caseload of young people with more complex needs. SET CAMHS has adopted the iTHRIVE Framework, which provides a set of principles for improving mental health and wellbeing support for children, young people and families, with SET CAMHS working in partnership with HCRG Care Group to deliver service to children and young people. The THRIVE Framework is needs-led which means that mental health needs are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. i-THRIVE | Implementing the THRIVE Framework (implementingthrive.org) ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area - To be aware of and demonstrate the Trust Values - To be able to work within Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics - To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures - Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and interagency settings. - Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work. ### Skills **Essential** - Basic Awareness of IT and IT skills - Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress; - Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation - Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex and in writing complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside of CAMHS. - Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor - Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manager as relevant - Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines - Ability to plan and organise own workload and time - Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work ### Knowledge **Essential** - An awareness of NHS priorities - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS - Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding policies and procedures - Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice, including NICE Guidance. - Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety - Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings. ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children /young people requiring skilled and complex interventions - Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma) - Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/ carers/ families of children and young people with complex mental health problems - Experience of using observation (e.g. in school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children - Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team - Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person - Extensive experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old – presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum - Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person - Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and related agencies. - Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts - Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners ### Qualifications **Essential** - NVQ Level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy - Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. Art Psychotherapist, Family Therapist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist) - To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, AFT, ACP) ### Demonstration of Trust Values **Essential** - We are kind - We are respectful - We work together with our communities ## Documents - [8B Clinical lead (PDF, KB)](https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1773&JobId=1900) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.