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Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum Inc HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 November 2025 |
| Location: | 220 Gree Lanes, London, N4 2NU |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7527564/363-SS7527564 |
Summary
Mental Health in Schools Support Team (MHST)
Psychologist /Specialist CAMHS Practitioner
Band 7 – Full Time
City & Hackney CAMHS are excited to be expanding our service and recruiting to a new full time post as a Specialist Clinician for the Mental Health in Schools Support Team.
The Mental Health Support Team in City & Hackney, which commenced in 2019, aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to help and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU’s. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.
The role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change. We aim to deliver whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health.The post holder will supervise trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) trainees.
In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties in special school settings, thepost-holder will clinically support of EMHPs/CWPs who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools across the borough.
The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. City & Hackney have been successful in being a Wave 2 site benefitting from significant investment in this area. There is a specific focus on developing more access to help and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU’s. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.
The role will include helping to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health.
As part of this role, if you have not already completed the EMHP supervisor training, you are expected to complete the UCL EMHP Supervisor’s training course starting in January 2026.
Please note that only once a job has been offered will you be able to apply for the course.
Interview date is 13th November. Please ensure you will have time to apply for the university course ahead of the 17th November when the application window will close.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
We are looking for a confident CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence based interventions, improving service quality with a strong interest in service development. You will be either a Psychologist, Nurse, OT, or Family Therapist with a strong CBT orientation. The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of our multicultural context.We particularly welcome applications from men and individuals from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds to strengthen the breadth of perspectives in the team.
We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.
As part of this role, if you have not already completed the EMHP supervisor training, you are expected to complete the UCL EMHP Supervisor’s training course starting in January 2026.
You will need to apply for this course at the same time as applying for this job role and your acceptance to this position would also depend on evidence of previous completion, or acceptanceon to the course.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025