Senior Educational Mental Health / Child Wellbeing Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7447068/455-NLFT-0463 |
Summary
The CAMHS Clinician will join the existing Enfield MHST multi-disciplinary team (that includes a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead, CAMHS clinicians / supervisors from a range of disciplines including clinical psychologists, child and adolescent psychotherapist, CAMHS nurse specialists, Educational Psychologists, and qualified children’s wellbeing practitioners and education and mental health practitioners) to support the work within schools.
The qualified Senior Education and Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) will join this growing team
that includes CAMHS clinicians, Educational psychologists, and trainee EMHPs. The post holder will providesupport for children and adolescents with mild to moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies).
The post holder will provide mentoring for junior staff and support the team with service development. The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health leads in schools, alongside CAMHS clinicians / supervisors, and educational psychologists, and help them develop their approaches to mental health and wellbeing in schools. They will gain some experience of teaching, training and consultation through this joint work.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are part of an exciting programme funded by NHS England with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community in response to the government’s Green Paper for Young People’s Mental Health.
The practitioner role may (site-dependent) focus on providing day to day clinical and supervisory support for the EMHP as they complete their qualifications over their training year and become a fully qualified EMHP.
The MHST team will require development and there will be specific work to ensure robust integration across the schools pathway.
The role will be working alongside community partners and developing relationships between the new MHST and educational settings.
The role will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the MHST, providing high quality, safe and responsive specialist mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals provided in accordance with Children and Young People’s mental health training principles, in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system.
The post holder may have clinical supervisory responsibility/co-responsibility for EMHP clinicians within the MHST and will also work as part of a seniors team, supporting the specialist practitioner and service development manager to set up the new pathway.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
· We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
· We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
· NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
· Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.
A requirement to undertake, complete and pass the supervisors course at Kings (KCL) or UCL.
To demonstrate the ability to work as an autonomous specialist practitioner in relation to the specialist area and in clinic which will include the reading and recording of the clinical observations of each child and the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of treatment packages.
To carry own caseload and take responsibility for the assessment, planning and evaluation of care for clients in the specialist area.
To demonstrate the ability to develop specialist programmes of care for the specialist client group and their families in accordance with Trust and national standards, policies and guidelines and appropriate professional codes of conduct.
To take case management responsibilities when appropriate in clinical meetings, giving clear clinical advice with regard to assessment, Risk Assessment, formulation and treatment of identified clients.
To recognise responsibility and act according to Trust and national guidelines alongside protocols with the relevant education settings in safeguarding children and adults.
To demonstrate the ability to teach in informal and formal settings, e.g. carers at home, students on specialist placement
To respond to the needs of clients and their carers in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.
To demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.
To understand the impact of social & cultural diversity on patients’ and carers’ needs and on their experiences of mental illness and mental health services.
***Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.***
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025