Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term contract for 18 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0505
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann Hospital
- Town
- London,
- Salary
- £70,396 - £80,837 Per annum including Outer London Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Therapy Lead
Band 8b
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
NCEL CAMHS Home Treatment Team (HTT) provides a community based intensive provision as an alternative to in-patient care for children and young people. HTT service operates within the NHS Long Term Plan and NCEL objectives, focusing on improving access, reducing hospital admissions, and ensuring timely, community-based support for mental health needs. This specification is aligned with the recommendations outlined in the NHS England Guidance (2024) "Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care for Children and Young People: National Implementation Guidance."
HTT offers intensive, short-term interventions designed to stabilise the individual and their family environment, promoting recovery and preventing the need for inpatient care. The service ensures that care is delivered close to home, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions, and promoting recovery through tailored evidence-based interventions. The service operates under the governance of the NCEL Provider Collaborative.
Following the temporary closure of Simmons House CAMHS inpatient service, as part of interim plans, North Central London (NCL) CAMHS HTT will enhance its current service provision to support alternative treatment pathways for young people.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the strategic development, planning and organization of the Crisis Pathway as a member of the senior leadership team, in line with local strategies and national priorities, working in partnership with a range of agencies and other senior management.
- Provide clinical and professional supervision for psychological therapist within the service and oversee the leadership of psychological therapists within the pathway.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care as well as delivering direct therapeutic interventions to young people and their families.
- To lead and develop psychologically informed provision across the NCL HTT including reflective practice, group supervision, and other ways of working.
- To work collaboratively with staff and service users, including via co-production to support service development.
- To provide teaching, workshops and training internally as needed.
- To support with audit and quality improvement
Working for our organisation
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The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for a motivated practitioner psychologist or systemic psychotherapist to provide leadership to the psychological therapists on the pathway, and to work within the senior leadership team to influence the strategic direction of the pathway. This is to promote psychological and trauma informed thinking within the care provided by teams across the pathway.
Please see the person specification/job description document for a detailed description of main responsibilities. This is not exhaustive however and other responsibilities can be included across BEH CAMHS as required.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this application early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached - please apply early to avoid missing out.
Person specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) or An AFT recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
- Professional healthcare registration, related to qualification above. (HCPC, UKCP)
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training to supervisor level in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice relevant to children and young people.
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to ‘approved’ clinical supervisor status
- Management or leadership training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Well-developed clinical skills working with children, young people & families.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communication sensitive information to young people, parents/carers and other professionals, and dealing with complaints.
- Skills in working effectively within and across organisational boundaries.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups. Skills in providing teaching/training and professional supervision
- Good computer skills,IT knowledge and knowledge of computer record systems
- A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
- Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS and appropriate legislation
Desirable criteria
- Skills in facilitating reflective spaces or group supervision
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A significant number of post qualification years of experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young person’s mental health setting.
- Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement.
- Experience of child safeguarding and risk procedures and how these apply in CAMHS.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychological professions at policy level
- Experience of implementing trauma informed practice across systems
- Experience of leadership
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional, and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with distressed children, adolescents, and their families/carer networks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shamara Bailey
- Job title
- Head of services Crisis Pathways
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 213 7800
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