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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

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Ref: 395-PP095-25-A Vacancy ID: 7546495

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - B&D CAMHS

Accepting applications until: 27-Oct-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 27-Oct-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Child and Adolescent Family Centre
Address: 79 Axe Street
Town: Barking
Postcode: IG11 7LZ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 plus HCAS per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: AHP

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 five 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

• To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC).

• To use appropriate clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, children, adolescents, and their families to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.

• To work alongside other colleagues in CYPMHS and in the care pathway 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 provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial and religious difference and sexual orientation.

• To provide clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems.

• To undertake observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments.

To provide therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psychoeducation and brief individual work with children and young people)

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.

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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.

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

Doctorate level qualification or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Additional training or qualification in clinically relevant modality (e.g. DBT, systemic therapies).
HCPC Registration

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working with adolescents and their families/carers.
Experience in the application of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
Clinical experience in mental health work.
Experience of offering supervision, teaching, training, and consultation.
Experience of working with systems such as families, social services, and groups

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Advanced knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and treatment of individuals, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
An awareness of NHS priorities
Advanced knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of psychological interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need, current mental state and work setting.
Knowledge of risk assessment and risk managed in CYPMHS
Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology
Knowledge of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF, and clinical governance priorities

Skills

Essential criteria

Communication and relationship skills of the highest level where complex formulations need to be developed and explained.
Experience of providing consultation to other professionals and teams.
Capacity to implement policy and to proactively contribute to their development in the wider service.
Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
Well-developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an highly technical and /or clinically sensitive level
Skills in flexibly planning and organising own working week, prioritising case load, balancing clinical sessions appropriately with other workload
Ability to work autonomously and manage working in situations of multi-level stress
Must be capable of professional autonomy i.e. holding full case responsibility, being accountable for own professional actions.