Co Lead Psychotherapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £72,719 - £83,505 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7948367/455-NLFT-0754-A |
Summary
The post holder will:
Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for
developing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy pathways and model driven interventions for
children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.
Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are
in place for psychotherapy staff within the borough CAMHS service. Deputise for and accept delegated
leadership responsibility for the CAMHS Management Team as appropriate.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic
governance of psychological therapy practice, with specific reference to child and adolescent
psychotherapy within the borough service, in collaboration with and under the supervision of the
psychological therapies lead for CAMHS.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Propose and implement policy changes within the borough based CAMHS service and Trust wide
CAMHS forums.
Hold a clinical caseload according to Job plan.
Agreeing to lead on the delivery of key KPIs and performance outcomes for the discipline within
Enfield CAMHS.
To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children,
adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources
including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in
the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a the child, young
person and their families mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual
framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the
full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.
In consultation with the Senior Management Team, to be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic model driven interventions for children, young people, their families/carers,
within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining
formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional
hypotheses.
To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for
assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.
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.
1. To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children,
adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources
including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in
the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a the child, young
person and their families mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual
framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the
full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.
3. In consultation with the Senior Management Team, to be responsible for implementing a range
of psychotherapeutic model driven interventions for children, young people, their families/carers,
within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining
formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional
hypotheses.
4. To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for
assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and
therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental
processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026