# Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Trainee - EB & NDT > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapy-trainee-eb-and-ndt/a7f94c8c-23ff-4817-934b-fa021fa236bc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapy-trainee-eb-and-ndt/a7f94c8c-23ff-4817-934b-fa021fa236bc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Charter House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Junior - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 4 years (4 years FTC) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-30T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-14T12:55:17.950Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8161069 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8161069?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are delighted to invite an application for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy training post to be based in the South Beds Neuro-Developmental (NDT)Team with dedicated time to the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) in Luton CAMHS. Health Education England has confirmed funding for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Traineeship in South Beds. The funding can extend to 4 years of clinical training at an ACP accredited training school. Applications are invited from candidates who have been accepted onto a clinical training beginning September 2026. They will already be working with children and young people in a professional capacity and will have an interest in and some understanding of psychoanalytical thinking in Parent and Infant/Child relationship and its impact on further development. The post within the Emotional and Behavioural Team will focus on early specialist intervention with those children who may present with neurodevelopmental conditions. ### Main duties of the job The candidate will take up a post in the Neurodevelopmental Team with dedicated time into the Emotional and Behavioural Team (E&B) in Luton CAMHS team. The successful candidate will be involved in the core work of the locality CAMHS teams alongside undertaking their psychotherapy training cases for the course of the 4 years clinical placement. There will be opportunities to rotate across the different specialist teams (i.e. ‘0-5’ Team; Primary Care Access Team; Eating Disorders; and Mental Health in Schools Team) with the aim of developing a specialism towards the end of the training. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You are encouraged to contact: Luton CAMHS: Miguel Massa (Lead Child Psychotherapist and E&B Clinical Team Lead) Miguel.Massa1@nhs.net or Eugenia Baibazarova (Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist) Eugenia.Baibazarova@nhs.net or Natalie Chakaduka (NDT Operational Lead) natalie.chakaduka@nhs.net For details/informal visits. Tel 01582 708140 ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Some understanding of what a psychoanalytic approach involves - - Understanding of child development and the relevance of parent-child relationships and its stressors - - Awareness of impact of early childhood adversity on individual’s development, health and well-being **Desirable** - - knowledge of CAMHS and statutory services - - knowledge of safeguarding principles ### Experience **Essential** - - Experience of working with infants/children/young people and their parents/carers with neuro-developmental conditions and providing interventions aimed at facilitating attachment and bonding - - Experience of work with children/families (pre-latency/latency/adolescent) in a range of community settings - - Experience in a mental health setting - - Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, clinically sensitive information to children, young people and parents and other professional colleagues within and outside the NHS **Desirable** - - Experience of multi-agency working (i.e. education, social care, community paediatrics, voluntary sector, etc) - - Experience in working with child development and community paediatric settings - - Experience of work with children/families with neurodevelopmental difficulties and learning difficulties - - Experience of working in an acute setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Honours Degree - - Observation Course or equivalent pre-clinical course already completed - - Only candidates who have been accepted on the IPCAPA training for the academic year beginning Sept’26 to be considered **Desirable** - - previous relevant professional qualification ## Documents - [cap trainee (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10462469) - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) ## 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.