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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.

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: Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; Essex; IG3 8XJ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

Find out more

Jobs Website

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Ref: 395-PP191-25 Vacancy ID: 7839851

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Accepting applications until: 23-Mar-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 23-Mar-2026 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Child and Adolescent Family Centre
Cyfeiriad: The Grove
Tref: Chadwell Heath
Cod post: RM6 4XH
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Oriau: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)

Salary

Cyflog: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (plus HCAS)
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 7)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Psychological Practitioner/Therapist

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 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

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• 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 providing therapeutic interventions ,work with parents/carers/networks of referred children and young people

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

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Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child, and adolescent psychotherapy, Systemic therapy, CBT therapist)
To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, AFT, ACP, BABCP)

Experience

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Extensive experience of working with challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs
Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/familie s of children and young people with complex mental health problems
Experience of using observation & assessment skills
Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi -disciplinary team
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 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 of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies
Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts

Knowledge

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An awareness of NHS Priorities and Issues
Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access Electronic diary, email and office management systems
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS
Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
Knowledge 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 guidance
Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings
Knowledge of electronic record systems, ie Rio

Skills

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Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress.
Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information
Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger as relevant
Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.
Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines
Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Enw: Sarah Birch / Ben Dholakia-Wellens
Teitl y swydd: Senior Child Psychotherapist / Psychology Lead
Cyfeiriad ebost: [email protected]
Rhif ffôn: 03003001618
Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais: Please get in touch for an informal discussion if you would like further information about this role or to arrange a visit. The post is advertised as permanent and full-time, although part time hours/condensed hours may be considered. We look forward to hearing from you.