Senior Lead Practitioner – EBT: Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident senior CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence based interventions and improving service quality to join our Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) pathway within Luton Specialist CAMHS. You will be either a Community Mental Health Nurse, Family Therapist, Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist, Creative Arts Therapist, BACP Accredited Counsellor or Occupational Therapist with the requisite professional accreditation.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.

The team is part of a dynamic and innovative CAMHS service, dedicated to continuous improvement of our offer to children, young people and families within our local area. There are a number of exciting quality improvement projects focusing on community engagement and service provision running across the service and the post holder will be actively encouraged to take part in these.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dynamic and organised professional to provide a specialist service within CAMHS to young people and their families and with support from the Clinical Team Leads, take on some operational duties, including frontline leadership of the Emotional and Behavioural Team. This is a community-based post, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work.

The post holder will be an experienced clinician within their profession, confident in delivering specialist mental health assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders and their families.

The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Team Leads and senior professionals within the team to ensure operational services and care pathways are effective. This will include professional and practice development and ensuring high-quality client-centered care is delivered. The post holder will lead by example to maintain high standards of care and practice and empower the team to take on a greater range of clinical tasks to improve client care in the specialist CAMH service. They will be a highly visible presence in clinical practice and be accessible to clients and their families.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A qualification in Child Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, Nursing (Mental Health), Counselling Psychology, Social Work or other equivalent profession

Desirable

  • Additional therapeutic/clinical training in evidence-based therapy; such as CBT diploma
  • Training and/or experience of delivering systemic interventions
  • Masters Degree or working towards postgraduate qualification in related CAMHS or specific evidence based treatment modality, such as DBT or IPT-A.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in CAMHS or equivalent setting for at least 3 years
  • Experience of working in community CAMHS and working with a multi-agency network
  • Experience at Agenda for Change Band 7 (or equivalent)
  • Experience of specialist assessment and treatment with children, young people and their families presenting high levels of complexity and moderate to severe mental health needs.
  • Experience of providing evidence-based interventions for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health disorders such as; OCD, PTSD and Complex PTSD, Depression and Anxiety disorders.
  • Experienced of managing high levels of need, complexity and risk, including safeguarding concerns, suicidal and self-harm behaviours.
  • Experience of providing line management and clinical supervision

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
  • Specialist clinical assessment and treatment skills including emergency and crisis assessments.
  • Evidence of ability to lead, support and influence others
  • Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS
  • A developed knowledge of Child development, Neurodiversity (ASC/ADHD) and specific learning needs
  • A working knowledge of Child Protection Guidelines

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 8 November 2026

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