Job summary
To provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. Providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.

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Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people who are looked after. They will contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations.

The post will also include one day a week with Hillington U5 service. The post holder will provide brief psychotherapy to families and consultation to professionals and parents.

About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

You will work from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service for young people experiencing mental health problems.

The post holder would be based in the Enhanced Treatment team and also in the Child Psychotherapy team within Brent CAMHS at Monk Park Health Centre.

Details
Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-G-CA-1792

Job responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. These will include long and short term interventions as appropriate to need
• 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, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people.
• Act as case worker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting
• Experience of working with a wide variety children, adolescents across the whole age range (0-18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.

Desirable

• Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers.

Skills / Abilities
Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
• Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks.
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Minet Clinic, Avondale Drive, Hayes, UB3 3NR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Team Manager Priscilla Hamilton, priscilla.hamilton2@nhs.net

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