Clinical Lead – Family Therapist / Psychotherapist
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
- Please refer to JD
Desirable criteria
- Please refer to JD
Useful to know
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
Psyc
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