Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
CAMHS Therapies Team Parental Mental Health Pathway Lead
The closing date is 24 November 2026
Job summary
Islington's CAMHS Therapies Team (CTT) is a vibrant multi-disciplinary team which addresses the needs of children and young people aged 2-18 years with moderate to severe/complex mental health presentations, from both neurodiverse and neurotypical populations, and from a diverse range of cultures and communities. The delivery of different types of psychotherapy and support, tailored to meet the needs of all populations, is a crucial part of the service.

CTT has a number of therapeutic treatment pathways, including Parental Mental Health (PMH), CBT, Child Psychotherapy, Systemic Therapy, IPT-A. CTT also provides our Core CAMHS offer, which can include brief therapeutic support, extended assessments, network support and consultation.

The post holder will join the team with a particular role as lead for the parental health pathway, supporting the team manager/s in operationally managing this part of the service. The postholder will hold clinical supervision responsibilities, as well as line managing identified staff members.

The postholder will have dedicated time within the Parental Mental Health treatment pathway which offers therapeutic support to parent and carers of young people aged 2-11 years old. The post's job role may also include some lead and clinical time withing the Core and wider treatment pathways that match their skill set as appropriate.

Main duties of the job
This job includes a variety of team management duties, staff supervisory and management responsibilities, clinical duties and self management responsibilities, and duties linked to research and evaluation to improve the service for children, families and other stakeholders.
Please see the attached Job Description for more information.

About us
Our mission is to create Children and Young People's Mental Health Services within Whittington Health Trust that embrace diversity and foster inclusivity at all levels. We strive to empower and support our staff and service users to achieve wellbeing.

We appreciate the importance of equality, diversity, inclusion and equity to strive towards providing the best quality and compassionate health care. Islington and our neighbouring boroughs are diverse communities. Through an awareness of social and cultural differences we understand that people may have different perspectives on emotional and mental health, and therefore our children, young people and families may have differing experiences and differing needs. We welcome and will seek conversations and feedback from ALL our service users to make us more accessible to them.

We want our staff to feel safe, supported and included within Whittington CYP MH Services. We want to value the things that make us unique, including all protected characteristics. Therefore, we wish to foster a positive culture which will allow all staff to flourish and ensure that everyone is valued and respected. We are working towards a non-defensive position that recognises the biases held within large organisations.

We hope that this positive culture will promote a more accessible and inclusive service for staff, children, young people, families, carers and partner stakeholders.

Details
Date posted: 11 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 220-WHT-8416027
Job locations: Northern Health Centre, London, N7 6LB, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please also see the attached Job Description for a more detailed description of the role and additional duties
Team Management

• Work with the CTT managers to support aspects of CTT management
• To provide advice and direction to all members of CAMHS and others in relation to complex organisational practice situations as necessary.
• To establish and maintain effective working relationships and new working arrangements with colleagues, children and young people, parents and other key stakeholders.
• To contribute to the development and shaping of the CAMHS Therapies Team provision in Islington.
• To ensure the appropriate and accurate use of the client information data base (RiO).
• To line manage and provide clinical supervision to identified staff
• To deputise for the CTT team managers in their absence or as required.

Clinical:

• Undertake assessments of children and young people referred to the team
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
• Ensuring that work which is accepted into the service meets with the eligibility criteria and that other referrals are re-directed to other appropriate agencies
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options
• Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals
• Act as care coordinator, where appropriate,

Clinical Supervision

• Contribute towards the provision of supervision, line management and clinical caseload management for others

Self-Management

• To be fully aware of current developments, legislation and practice in the care of children and young people with mental health problems
• To attend regular management/professional supervision. Be aware of and reflect on own practice as a manager/clinician
• To be aware of and adhere to all Trust polices, Manage time effectively, meet professional standards of practice and relevant professional legislation

Research and Service Evaluation

• To take a leading role in the planning, establishment, evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies,
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research
• To initiate audit and service evaluation with others to and improve services to clients and their families

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical/ Counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy child and adolescent psychotherapy or CBT as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP/BABCP or other recognised professional registering body OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in CBT and registration with the BABCP.

Skills and abilities
Essential

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for mental health presentations including assessment and evidence based therapies for depression, anxiety and emotional regulation difficulties.
• Skills in the use of methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children between 2 to 18 years old, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal and mental health factors for adults and children their families.
• Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
• Knowledge and skills in effective communication, 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 chair team meetings and support the CAMHS Service Managers in general team tasks as required.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• Ability to manage clinical staff on band 7 and below

Knowledge and experience
Essential

• Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of adults, children and families.
• Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
• Experience of monitoring clinical outcomes.

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to service activity reports.

Personal qualities
Essential

• Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.

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: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address: Northern Health Centre, London, N7 6LB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: CTT Manager Vicki Curry, v.curry@nhs.net, 02033161824

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