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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
Youth Justice Service Practitioner CAMHS Band 7
Accepting applications until: 29-Jan-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Jan-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Child and Family Centre
- Address
- Axe street
- Town
- Barking & Dagenham
- Postcode
- IG11 7LZ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 plus HCAS per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing & Midwifery
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
Job overview
We are seeking for an experienced Youth Justice Service CAMHS Practitioner to join our busy and dynamic CAMHS team in Barking and Dagenham.We have a growing and supportive team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about young people’s mental health and well-being to join us in the delivery of high quality and effective CAMHS interventions.The post-holder must be a qualified and professionally registered mental health professional (e.g. RMN/RGN, Practitioner Psychologist, social worker, child psychotherapist, family therapist and ideally dual qualified) with experience in CAMHS.
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You will be responsible for the delivery of specialist mental health advice and health promotion relating to mental health; as well as undertaking of health assessment of children and their families living within Barking and Dagenham, open to the Youth Justice Service which should include review of their physical health and supporting them to access appropriate treatment accordingly.
The role requires you to function autonomously, whilst being a support and resource to less experienced members of staff from the partner agencies within the YJS. You must be able to assess patients, carry out relevant tests, and arrange follow-up whilst offering advice and information. You must be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills in clinical decision making.
You will be required to have the ability to work effectively as part of a multi professional team within a fast-paced environment, in line with local and national policy and process
Working for our organisation
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 Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time).
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI
during the recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Maintaining efficient systems for client records by creating and maintaining, clinical notes, care plans and risk assessments.
2. Participating in MDT discussions and offering expert advice relating to fields such as mental health and health promotion.
3. To liaise with the line manager regularly, and as soon as possible notify him/her of any difficulties/problems.
4. To undertake the supervision and offer support of more junior staff.
5. To ensure own knowledge of referral pathways to other agencies i.e. TIGER, youth service and be able to refer or signpost clients as appropriate.
6. To practice in accordance with NELFT policies and protocols and to ensure that staff working in their clinic area are aware of current policies and procedures.
7. To discuss, inform and advise clients on any issues relating to general health, smoking cessation, pregnancy, sexual health, substance misuse or their social situation and refer to the appropriate agency as necessary.
8. To ensure that you undertake effective assessment of child protection and safeguarding issues and raising alerts when necessary and feeding into safeguarding meeting and care plans.
9. Attend regular staff meetings with the CAMHS and YJS teams and pathway leaders and to be able to disseminate new information, and service developments
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.
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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration as Practitioner Psychologist, Child Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist, Family Therapist, Social Worker or Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Registered General Nurse
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantive experience of practice within a child mental health setting in the statutory or volunteer sector
- Experience and knowledge around the delivery of public health initiatives
- Experience of working with partnership agencies
- Experience of delivering health promotion to young people and their families
- Experience of and advanced knowledge of child protection issues and process.
- Experience of providing guidance and supervision to other staff members and working within and MDT.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An in-depth understanding of mental health disorders and its effects on the child and their family
- A detailed understanding of the treatment of mental health disorders, both medical and therapeutic interventions.
- A good understanding of health promotion and its importance within the YJS.
- Clear understanding of how to deliver health promotion and monitoring within the community.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication and relationship skills of the highest level where complex formulations need to be developed and explained
- 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 to service users and professionals within and outside the NHS in line with confidentiality and safeguarding protocols
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts.
- Must be capable of professional autonomy i.e. holding full case responsibility, being accountable for own professional actions
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bibi Chummun
- Job title
- Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07885972111
- Additional information
Chris Scalzo
Psychological Professional Lead
Work mobile: 0779 035 2095
Email: [email protected]
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