Deputy Neighbourhood Lead/Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, N4 2NU |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7763838/363-SS7763838 |
Summary
The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting 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 in response to the government’s Green Paper for Young People’s Mental Health. City & Hackney have been successful in being a Wave 1, and in 2022, a wave 6 site, benefitting from significant investment in this area. 2026 has bought another wave of investment enabling further roll out. This now makes up 4 funded teams covering City & Hackney schools.
Since the beginning, MHSTs have been integrated with the existing schools service in City & Hackney, the Well-being and Mental Health in schools Service (WAMHS). WAMHS has a specific focus on developing more access to appropriate 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, WAMHS and MHSTs will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.
This role will be as a Deputy Neighbourhood Team Lead for WAMHS tasked with developing and delivering 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.
The main focus of this role is to support the Clinical Team Leads to provide day to day clinical operational management and leadership for the clinical functioning of WAMHS whilst working alongside the Clinical Team Leads and project leaders to develop and implement a wide range of interventions and projects with local schools.
In addition to leading on and directly providing comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, this post is an opportunity to work with school staff and school cultures in developing school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and wellbeing.
This Deputy Neighbourhood Team Lead role incorporates operational management, alongside the provision of specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners within the neighbourhood team. The post holder will have clinical lead and supervisory responsibility for the other members of WAMHS including multi-disciplinary CAMHS clinicians and Education Mental Health Practitioners, who are trainees for the first year of their employment in the project.
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.
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This 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 be supported to complete formal training with Kings College London’s course in supervision of EMHPs or in Transformation and Change Leadership.
In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, thepost-holder will share the leadership for a diverse range of professionals who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools and colleges across the borough.
The post holder will also provide direct CAMHS outreach into schools and training for school staff, to support the development of whole school approaches to mental health and well-being.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Feb 2026