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Band 7
Full-time

Clinical Lead – Family Therapist / Psychotherapist

NELFT North East London Foundation Trustcolchester, Essex£57,528 - £64,750Closes 30/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
17/09/2026
Closes
30/09/2026

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Role summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Psychological Professional to join the SET CAMHS team within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for children, young people, and families with emotional, behavioural, and mental health difficulties. The successful candidate will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to high-quality, evidence-based care and service development, consultation, supervision, training, and leadership.

Key responsibilities

  • Delivering highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families
  • Providing comprehensive assessments and formulation in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team
  • Supporting urgent assessments, parenting interventions and complex specialist cases
  • Working across a broad range of presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, self-harm and behavioural difficulties
  • Undertaking parent/carer work, psychoeducation, group interventions and brief therapeutic work
  • Providing consultation, advice and expert clinical supervision to colleagues across SET CAMHS

Essential criteria

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Desirable criteria

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Band 7 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.

This advert: £57,528 – £64,750 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead – [contact details removed] / Psychotherapist

The closing date is 30 September 2026

Job summary

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SET CAMHS team within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as a highly skilled Psychological Professional.

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate clinician to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families presenting with a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.

The successful post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care across the SET CAMHS pathway. This role offers the opportunity to work with complex and specialist presentations whilst also contributing to service development, consultation, supervision, training and leadership within the team.

This post is based within SET CAMHS Thurrock and attracts the applicable Fringe London weighting, in addition to the advertised NHS salary. This provides an enhanced remuneration package for clinicians working within the Thurrock locality.

Main duties of the job

Applications are welcomed from appropriately qualified and registered:

Clinical or Counselling Psychologists

Psychotherapists

Family Therapists

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