CYP-PT: Therapy Trainee [Parent Training]
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
Candidates needing sponsorship are encouraged to apply.
HiveMind found a sponsorship-friendly statement in the source advert welcoming applicants who require a visa. Always confirm on the source before applying.
“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.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team as a CYP-PT Therapy Trainee, participating in an NHS England funded programme in partnership with The Anna Freud Centre, UCL, and KCL. The role involves training on the Children & Young People Psychological Therapies (CYP-PT Trainee) Therapy Course while carrying out clinical work to complement studies. This fixed-term post requires balancing a busy work and study schedule, as trainees will be employees of the service and enrolled in a Postgraduate Diploma course. Applicants must be highly motivated mental health practitioners committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Essential criteria
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Degree level qualification (if you do not have a degree level qualification you can submit alternative evidence of your academic capability.
- A 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, other psychotherapy, counselling)
- Demonstrates an appreciation of the importance of working with parents to address child behavioural problems.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates an appreciation of the range of factors that can impact on the presentation of child behavioural problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding of services that work with children and families with behavioural problems.
- Demonstrates knowledge of theory in relation to child conduct problems (e.g., social learning theory).
- Two years professional experience working with children with behavioural problems and their families
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of multi agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with child behaviour problems using parenting approaches
- Other
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.
- Team player; mentor, teach and support others in the team.
- Skills and Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with families, children and tier network, e.g., schools, nurseries etc
- Ability to adapt communication style according to the varying needs of families
- Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their carers
- Ability to use supervision to reflect on practice
- Ability to organise own time and diary
- Ability to follow policy and make proposal for change
- Ability to maintain accurate records
- Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level, including IELTS or equivalent to the appropriate level for students with English as a foreign language (BAND D) https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/entry-requirements/english-language.aspx
- Ability to adopt collaborative approach to working with parents of children with behavioural problems
- Understanding of evidence based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
- Education and Qualifications
- Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- Degree level qualification (if you do not have a degree level qualification you can submit alternative evidence of your academic capability.
- A 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, other psychotherapy, counselling)
- Demonstrates an appreciation of the importance of working with parents to address child behavioural problems.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children.
- Demonstrates an appreciation of the range of factors that can impact on the presentation of child behavioural problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding of services that work with children and families with behavioural problems.
- Demonstrates knowledge of theory in relation to child conduct problems (e.g., social learning theory).
- Two years professional experience working with children with behavioural problems and their families
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues
- Experience of multi agency working and liaising across internal & external agencies
- Experience of working with child behaviour problems using parenting approaches
- Other
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.
- Team player; mentor, teach and support others in the team.
- Skills and Abilities
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with families, children and tier network, e.g., schools, nurseries etc
- Ability to adapt communication style according to the varying needs of families
- Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their carers
- Ability to use supervision to reflect on practice
- Ability to organise own time and diary
- Ability to follow policy and make proposal for change
- Ability to maintain accurate records
- Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level, including IELTS or equivalent to the appropriate level for students with English as a foreign language (BAND D) https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/post
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 6d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
Full advert · preview
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
CYP-PT: Therapy Trainee [Parent Training]
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Our service has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a CYP-PT Therapy Trainee, part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded programme in partnership with The Anna Freud Centre, University College London, and Kings College London. The post-holder will be training on the Children & Young People Psychological Therapies (CYP-PT Trainee) Therapy Course and carrying out clinical work in our service to complement their studies and use their newly developed skills. We are seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health practitioners to work and train within our service. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for children, young people or families using evidence-based intervention consistent with the course they are attending. The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Main duties of the job
This is a fixed term post with this training year funded by NHSE. After successful completion of the course the fixed term training contract will end however applicants would be encouraged to apply for any vacant posts within the service and will be provided support and
Join the community to read the full pack, responsibilities and person-specification in one place.
Apply to this role — free for your first 7 days
CareerHive is included with the CareerHive community on Skool. Start your free 7 days there and your access here unlocks straight away with the same email.
- Every sponsorship-friendly NHS role, bands 3–7, across all four nations
- The full advert and the direct apply link
- HiveMind AI — interview prep, likely questions and tailored supporting information
- Your private vault of saved roles, documents and application pipeline
- Daily alerts when a role that matches you goes live
Already a member? Sign in with the email you joined the community with. After 7 days your membership continues at the normal monthly price, or you can cancel any time and access here simply stops.