Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Recruit to Train (RTT) clinician: Therapy Trainee Parent - Infant Pathway)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0466
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Anns Hospital
- Town
- Tottenham
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Recruit to Train Practitioner Infants and Early Years (IEYP) programme
NHS AfC: Band 6
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/
Job overview
Main duties of the job
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Participation in triage and assessment
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Formulation in our MDT meetings and supervision
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Exposure to working with clinicians including Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Health Visiting, Speech and Language Therapy
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Opportunities to contribute to audit and/or quality improvement initiatives
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- 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
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with clients, staff, administrators and managers.
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with young children and their carers
Desirable criteria
- • Previous training in a mental-health related profession (e.g. psychology, nursing, health visiting, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special needs teaching, psychiatry, psychotherapy, counselling
- Proven record of previous academic attainment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with young children and their carers
- Ability to adapt communication style according to the varying needs of families
- Ability to reflect on own practice (in clinical supervision and practice tutor groups with course peers
- Demonstrates adaptability and able to work with diverse communities
- Demonstrates adaptability and able to work with diverse communities
Desirable criteria
- Ability to adopt an observational stance, particularly relating to babies and very young children
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice with children aged 0-5
- Ability to reflect on connection of own experiences of parenting/being parented
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with young children and their carers
- Knowledge and understanding issues relating to the safeguarding of very young children
- Knowledge of the importance of the 0-5 years on development and mental wellbeing and understanding of the range of factors that can impact 0-5 developmental and emotional wellbeing
- Understanding of theory knowledge of early child development and of 0-5s services (e.g. health visiting, early help and the need for holistic approaches
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a professional setting concerned with the mental health, development and wellbeing of infants aged 0-5
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Knowledge and understanding of theory in relation to early child development
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Motivated to learn and be challenged
- Capacity to work well in teams.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janis Griffiths
- Job title
- Service Lead, CAMHS Integrated Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 4716
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