Clinical Team Lead for Looked After Children Team | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	24 April 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£79,504 - £91,609 pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	24 May 2026
Location:	Bedford, MK40 3JT
Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7890551/363-SSLB7890551

Summary

8C CAMHS Clinical Team Lead Countywide Bedfordshire and Luton Children Looked After Team – 12 month Maternity cover


We are looking for a Senior Clinician to support the Countywide Children Looked after Team whilst the Clinical Team Lead is on maternity leave. This is a fixed term 12 month post to cover this maternity leave.


This post will form part of the CAMHS senior leadership team in Bedfordshire and Luton and will be responsible for the delivery of the highest standards of care and services for children and young people.



The post holder will be a senior clinician from a core CAMHS non-medical discipline and will be accountable for the clinical leadership and management of the Countywide Bedfordshire andLuton Looked after Children’s Team. The post is open to all disciplines including psychology, Psychotherapy, family therapy, nursing, social work, Arts therapies.


This is a community-based post across the county, leading on the delivery of a flexible, trauma-informed and evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work to children who are in care and their caring systems, across the county. The post holder will also lead on the delivery of interventions such as consultation, triage, training, and other forms of support to the professional networks working with children in care, supporting and informing on the trauma-based care for the children and young people, and their caring networks, helping to develop a systems of care and trauma-informed approach with partner agencies.

The post holder would need to ensure the county-wide team has robust training, consultative and highly specialist evidence-informed assessment to treatment packages in place, and a readiness to assess mental illness, risk and resiliency in young people, using a contextualized formulation approach. The role would include working on an individual, family or group basis and providing consultations to social workers and foster carers, training and contributing to group programs and supervision within the team.

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.

Working in partnership with the Associate Clinical Director, General Manager and Psychological Therapies Lead, and other Clinical Team Leads, the post holder will form part of the senior clinical leadership for the service. They will provide inspirational leadership of the county wide multidisciplinary team to ensure effective, and evidence informed assessment, formulation and treatment, accessible care pathways with all essential partners, and a culture of continuous quality improvement in the service.

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This advert closes on Sunday 10 May 2026