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AMHT Clinician | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 December 2025 |
| Location: | Alma Street, LU1 2PJ |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7612247/363-SSLB7612247 |
Summary
We are recruiting apart-time (30 hours per week) substantive Band 7 CAMHS Clinician to join theAdolescent Mental Health Team (AMHT) withinELFT South Bedfordshire CAMHS, based in Luton. This is a community-focused role providing a highly specialist mental health service to children, young people, and their families presenting with complex mental health needs.
As part of the ELFT AMHT, the post holder will deliver comprehensive specialist assessments and formulation-driven treatment packages, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care for adolescents presenting with a range of complex and high-risk mental health difficulties. You will work collaboratively within a well-established, supportive, and dynamic multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure that young people receive the highest standard of care.
We are ideally looking for aSocial Worker or Registered Mental Health Nurse who also has a background in therapeutic practice, such asPsychotherapy, Art Therapy, or Family/Systemic Therapy. The successful candidate will be able toprovide specialist therapeutic interventions within an adolescent CAMHS setting, tailoring evidence-based approaches to meet the needs of young people with complex mental health difficulties and supporting their families.
Working as acare coordinator within ELFT AMHT, you will hold a defined caseload and provide both direct clinical work and care coordination, ensuring safe and effective care planning, risk management, and multi-agency liaison. The post offers opportunities to contribute to service development, engage in reflective practice, and deliver specialist therapeutic interventions aligned with ELFT’s commitment to high-quality, person-centred, and recovery-focused care.
The AMHT is a well-functioning multi-disciplinary team within South Bedfordshire CAMHS. The team includes
Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses, a Systemic Family Therapist, a Clinical Psychologist, an Occupational
Therapist, and a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist.
The team model includes both joint and individual work with young people and their families. We offer a
range of interventions, including:
- Therapeutic care coordination
- Systemic family therapy
- Individual therapy (CBT, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, narrative therapy)
- Psychiatric assessment and management
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.
For further information please see attached job description and person specification or contact
Lee Gillard
Lee.gillard1@nhs.net
01525 638614
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025