# Clinical Lead – Family Therapist / Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-lead-family-therapist-psychotherapist/7fe57165-e7ab-4ad5-bf60-06b8ea6d8efd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-lead-family-therapist-psychotherapist/7fe57165-e7ab-4ad5-bf60-06b8ea6d8efd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Meadow Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £57528.00 to £64750.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-17T11:32:39.383Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9395-26-0529 - **Application URL:** https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=1961&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.nelft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area - To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values - To be able to work within the 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 inter-agency 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, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside SET 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 Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in EWMHS - Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies. - Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines - 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. - Knowledge of electronic record systems, ie Rio ### 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 - Extensive experience of multidisciplinary working in eating disorders services for children and adolescents - Experience of using observation (eg. 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. - 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 within related agencies. - Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts. **Desirable** - 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. ### Qualifications **Essential** - NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy - 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 **Essential** - Putting people first - Prioritising quality - Being progressive, innovative and continually improve - Being professional and honest - Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity and choice ## Documents - [Set CAMHS Clinical Psychologist/ Psychotherapist JD (PDF, KB)](https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=2066&JobId=1961) ## 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.