Job requirements
Essential
33 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
- Other
To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- Other
To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics
- Other
Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency setting
- 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
Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger 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 priorities
- Knowledge
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in CAMHS
- 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 electronic record systems, ie SystmOne, 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
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
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
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.
- Qualifications
NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
- Qualifications
Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist) plus an additional postgraduate qualification in Psychological Therapies (e.g. CYP-IAPT post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy). To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT, NMC)
- Demonstration of Trust Values
We are kind
- Demonstration of Trust Values
We are respectful
- Demonstration of Trust Values
We work together with our communities
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings
- Experience
Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts.
Job summary
Job overview 1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families 2. To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families 3. To undertake a range of assessments, parenting support and complex cases. 4. To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on SET CAMHS cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within SET CAMHS, including junior staff. 5. To contribute to audit and learning. 6. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT 7. To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework SET CAMHS and the Trusts policies and procedure
Main duties of the job
To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP AFT, RMN, BABCP). Please see the attached Job description for further details
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: 06 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: SET-3EL-002244
- Job locations: SET-CAMHS,, colchester, Esssex, CO3 3WG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
1. To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP AFT, RMN, BABCP).
2. To use an expert clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multi- disciplinary team, children, adolescents and their families in order to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan
3. To work alongside other colleagues in SET CAMHS and in the care pathway in order to provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the child’s, young person’s, and family’s functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family. To clinically lead this process in the SET CAMHS team
4. To provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation
5. To provide highly specialist clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems
6. To undertake specialist observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments
7. To provide expert therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people) to children and young people with complex mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD; emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety states; attachment disorders; conduct disorders, eating disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychosomatic disorders; enuresis/encopresis, aggression, borderline states, self-harming, substance misuse and other behaviour potentially dangerous to the child/young person or others
8. To undertake work with parents/carers/networks of referred children and young people
9. To utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other members of SET CAMHS.
Leadership
1. The post-holder will provide clinical leadership within the sphere of their professional expertise
2. To actively promote integrated health/care professional working internally and externally
3. To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict
4. To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines
5. To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance
6. To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews
7. They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it and who use it across SET CAMHS
Working for Us Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
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.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.
Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period.
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.
For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact:
Name: Kay-sha Kerr
Job title: Team Manager, SET CAMHS Castle Point, Rochford and Southend
Contact Number: 07967795893
Email: kay-sha.kerr2@nhs.net
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