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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

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 and Kent.

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.

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; West Wing; CEME Centre; Marsh Way; Rainham; Essex; RM13 8GQ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

Find out more

Jobs Website

Open

Ref: 395-WF058-25 Vacancy ID: 7392200

EDP Pathway Lead

Accepting applications until: 10-Sep-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 10-Sep-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Wood Street Health Centre
Address: Linford Road, Walthamstow
Town: London
Postcode: E17 3LA
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Friday 9- 5pm)

Salary

Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 pa (plus HCAS) pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8b)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Psychology

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, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Waltham Forest CAMHS has a vibrant group of Psychologists & Allied Professionals who are valued by the wider team and who meet face-to-face once a week. The group includes just under 20 clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT therapists and trainees, trainee psychologists, assistant psychologist, and a PBS practitioner.

You would directly clinically supervise and line manage more junior staff members. You would be expected to offer extensive expert consultation across the service and through inter-agency network meetings. You may also undertake highly specialist assessments to contribute to the clinical leadership and oversight for mental health assessments and interventions and to formulate areas of strengths and needs based on good practice and evidence. You may hold a very small caseload of young people and assess and work with complex risk and other safeguarding concerns. You would coordinate the allocation of 1:1 therapeutic work, the running of groups, and completion of cognitive assessments, including the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), and Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS).

We pride ourselves on having a compassionate, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and inclusive approach that puts both staff wellbeing and children and young people at its centre. NELFT has had significant investment in senior leadership of psychological professions across the Trust and expects ongoing commitment to developing and retaining high quality staff through CPD, supervision and an annual psychological professions conference. The Trust also has various committees as part of our commitment to promoting equality and diversity (e.g. LGBTQ+, EDI, and disability, amongst others), which frequently provide free training and regular meetings. As part of our trauma-informed approach, we strongly encourage good work/life balance, compassionate and approachable leadership, and collaborative team decision-making whenever possible.

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 closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (i.e. HCPC)
Post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (i.e. Clinical or Counselling Psychologist)
Additional specialist training and/or accreditation in other therapeutic approaches relevant to working with children and young people (CYP) with moderate to severe and complex mental health problems and emotional and behavioural problems (e.g. EMDR, IPT-A, DDP, CAT, ACT, DBT, CFT)
Providing focused psychological interventions for CYP aged 0-18 who have moderate to severe mental health issues, and with their caregivers/networks
Substantial experience as Band 8a psychologist within the NHS

Desirable criteria

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.
Providing line management

CAMHS policy

Essential criteria

Of the principles of Children and Young People’s IAPT / CYPMH and the iThrive model

Desirable criteria

Of the principles of Children and Young People’s IAPT / CYPMH and the iThrive model

Skills

Essential criteria

To appreciate the skills and interventions offered by internal and external colleagues / professionals, and consider when these may be appropriate for CYP and their caregivers instead of / alongside own interventions
Of NHS priorities, values, and processes

Desirable criteria

To empower those typically less heard to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion and anti-discrimination
Of CYP development and systemic and societal issues that may impact this

Knowledge

Essential criteria

To use and/or develop outcome measures
Of research and models of good practice that inform direct and indirect working within CAMHS

Desirable criteria

To offer line management, including to co-ordinate work patterns and team job plans

Documents

JDPS (PDF, 457.8KB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Alec Stuart

Job title

Head of Service, Waltham Forest CAMHS

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07926703747

Additional information

You would be passionate about ensuring the child's voice is central to the work we do and work in partnership with families/carers and other agencies to achieve the best possible outcomes for the child. You will promote co-production with those with lived experience and contribute to service development.

We welcome pre-application conversations. Working from home is possible on days that do not require face-to-face contacts. We may also consider working compressed hours.