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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

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

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

We are looking for people aspiring to progress their career working with infants and young children via the Recruit to Train programme.
You will have applicable experience working with young children.  Previous training in a mental-health related profession is desirable. This government-funded initiative promotes the growth and skill of the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. 
 
The postholder will attend training from January 2026 for 2.5 days per week, applying their new Parent-Infant intervention skills in our Under-5s team the remaining 2.5 days.  Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with UCL/Anna Freud. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a UCL Postgraduate Diploma.   You will be part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary under-5s team, providing care across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey localities.  We are a friendly and supportive team.  As well as receiving supervision, some team members have direct experience of completing the IAPT course programme, so you will be well supported.   

Main duties of the job

 
Further to the training in specific modalities that you receive from the IEYP P-I Pathway training, you will end the year with a well-rounded experience of CAMHS work with young children, including:
  • Participation in triage and assessment
  • Formulation in our MDT meetings and supervision
  • Exposure to working with  clinicians including Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Health Visiting, Speech and Language Therapy
  • Opportunities to contribute to audit and/or quality improvement initiatives
 
Course start date: 19th January 2026
Note: This is a dual application process. In addition to applying for this position with us, you must also complete a UCL application for the Course Team to review. The Course Team will liaise with us on whether you meet the academic requirements for the course during the recruitment process. You will only be offered a UCL training place if you are successful in securing this post and you meet the university training requirements.
Please view the attached document ‘UCL CYP PT Therapy -  Application Guidance for Candidates August 2025’ for the university application link and more information on how to apply.  

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

More information about the course content and the different modalities can be found on the Anna Freud webpage: https://www.annafreud.org/ucl-postgraduate-study/ucl-postgraduate-programmes/child-and-young-person-iapt-therapy-pg-dip/  There is also a useful training FAQ section for prospective candidates: Prospective Trainees_ CYP IAPT Therapy Programme FAQ's.docx - Google Docs
Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with UCL/Anna Freud. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a UCL Postgraduate Diploma.

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.

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
Janis Griffiths
Job title
Service Lead, CAMHS Integrated Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 702 4716
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