Clinical Lead – Family Therapist / PsychotherapistNHS

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

Job description

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.

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.