Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
39 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- Other
To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
- Other
To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
- Other
To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
- Other
Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings.
- Other
Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work.
- Skills
Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
- Skills
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress.
- Skills
Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
- Skills
Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside SET CAMHS.
- Skills
Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
- Skills
Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manager as relevant
- Skills
Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Skills
Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.
- Skills
Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.
- Knowledge
An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
- Knowledge
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in EWMHS
- Knowledge
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines
- Knowledge
Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of electronic record systems, ie Rio
- Experience
Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- Experience
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).
- Experience
Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
- Experience
Extensive experience of multidisciplinary working in eating disorders services for children and adolescents
- Experience
Experience of using observation (eg. In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children.
- Experience
Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience
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.
- Experience
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
Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies.
- Experience
Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts.
- Qualifications
NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
- Qualifications
Post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC)
- Demonstration of Trust Values
Putting people first
- Demonstration of Trust Values
Prioritising quality
- Demonstration of Trust Values
Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
- Demonstration of Trust Values
Being professional and honest
- Demonstration of Trust Values
Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity and choice
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
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.
Job summary
Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SET CAMHS team within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as a highly skilled Psychological Professional. We are looking for an experienced and compassionate clinician to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families presenting with a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties. The successful post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care across the SET CAMHS pathway. This role offers the opportunity to work with complex and specialist presentations whilst also contributing to service development, consultation, supervision, training and leadership within the team. This post is based within SET CAMHS Thurrock and attracts the applicable Fringe London weighting, in addition to the advertised NHS salary. This provides an enhanced remuneration package for clinicians working within the Thurrock locality.
Main duties of the job
Applications are welcomed from appropriately qualified and registered: Clinical or Counselling Psychologists Psychotherapists Family Therapists Psychological Therapists
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: 17 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: NDD-001935
- Job locations: SET-CAMHS,, colchester, Esssex, co3 3wg, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children, adolescents and families presenting with complex emotional and mental health difficulties.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families
- Providing comprehensive assessments and formulation in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team
- Supporting urgent assessments, parenting interventions and complex specialist cases
- Working across a broad range of presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, self-harm and behavioural difficulties
- Undertaking parent/carer work, psychoeducation, group interventions and brief therapeutic work
- Providing consultation, advice and expert clinical supervision to colleagues across SET CAMHS
- Supporting integrated multi-agency working with health, education and social care partners
- Contributing to audit, service development, clinical governance and outcome monitoring in line with CYP-IAPT principles
- Supporting the training and development of trainees, students and newly appointed staff
The role also includes contributing to the development of a positive, supportive and reflective team culture, ensuring services remain accessible, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of local children, young people and families.
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement – Fringe (Basildon, Thurrock, Brentwood, Harlow and Dartford only) This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,346 to a maximum of £2,270 p.a. pro rata for part time)
Certificates of Sponsorship Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI-generated content in applications.
Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.
We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
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This advert is for Clinical Lead – Family Therapist / Psychotherapist with North East London NHS Foundation Trust in Ilford, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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