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Psychotherapist
Grade
8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0754-A
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bay Tree House
Town
Enfield
Salary
£72,719 - £83,505 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/05/2026 23:59

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Co Lead Psychotherapist

8b

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit  https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

 

Job overview

The post holder will: 
Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for 
developing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy pathways and model driven interventions for 
children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting. 
Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are 
in place for psychotherapy staff within the borough CAMHS service. Deputise for and accept delegated 
leadership responsibility for the CAMHS Management Team as appropriate.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic 
governance of psychological therapy practice, with specific reference to child and adolescent 
psychotherapy within the borough service, in collaboration with and under the supervision of the 
psychological therapies lead for CAMHS. 
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. 
Propose and implement policy changes within the borough based CAMHS service and Trust wide 
CAMHS forums.
Hold a clinical caseload according to Job plan. 
Agreeing to lead on the delivery of key KPIs and performance outcomes for the discipline within 
Enfield CAMHS.

Main duties of the job

To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, 
adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources 
including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured 
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in 
the client’s care.

To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a the child, young 
person and their families mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual 
framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the 
full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.

In consultation with the Senior Management Team, to be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic model driven interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, 
within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining 
formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional 
hypotheses.

To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for 
assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.


Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

  1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
  2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
  3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

  • We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
  • We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
  • NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
  • Excellent internal staff network

 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, 
adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources 
including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured 
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in 
the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a the child, young 
person and their families mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual 
framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the 
full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.
3. In consultation with the Senior Management Team, to be responsible for implementing a range 
of psychotherapeutic model driven interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, 
within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining 
formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional 
hypotheses. 
4. To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for 
assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and 
therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental 
processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.

 

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

training and qualification

Essential criteria
  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists,( ACP), including specifically models of Child Development, Early Attachment psychometrics and neuropsychology
  • Full membership of the ACP and PSA (Professional Standards Authority).
Desirable criteria
  • Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice
  • Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive post qualification experience in a CAMHS setting
  • Extensive experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with diversity and people (children and families) of all ages
  • Proven experience in clinical leadership

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current psychological evidence base and best practice in working with children.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to adults and mental health
  • Knowledge of current psychological evidence base and best practice in working with adults.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tamsin Elder
Job title
Psychotherapist Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02087025100
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