Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

4 x Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner [CWP]Band 4

JOB TITLE: Trainee CWP

HOURS: 10 sessions / 37.5 hours

DURATION: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

LOCATION: Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3 5BA.

Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team are recruiting 4 trainee CWPs to continue to improve children and young people's mental health services in Camden. The training forms part of the service transformation initiative delivered by NHS England as part of the Children and Young People's Mental Health CYP Psychological Trainings (PT) (formerly CYP IAPT) programmes.

Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team, work with children and families aged 4-18. We provide group and individual CBT and parent training interventions to parents and young people with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, or challenging behaviour. The Team also has an active role in community engagement, offering trainings to universal services and service user involvement projects. The team includes 3 CWP's, 4 Trainee CWP's, a parenting practitioner, systemic practitioner, CBT Therapists, a supervisor and service lead.

Our team work closely with community multidisciplinary Teams. The Tavistock has a national and international reputation as a training centre and provides an excellent environment in which trainees.

Main duties of the job

This is a training position post holder will undertake training at Kings College London alongside working in service for The Wellbeing Team. They will be taught to deliver evidence based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2026 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.

Please be aware the information on your application form (name and contact details, qualifications and prior relevant experience) will be shared with the Anna Freud staff team as part of the recruitment process. By submitting your application to this role, you are agreeing to your details being shared with Anna Freud. Candidates must ensure that they address each point of the person specification in the application. Due to the high volume of applications, we may close this position before the closing date.

Please note that an application to Kings College London Post Graduate Diploma Child Wellbeing Practice needs to be made alongside your application to the Wellbeing Team, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. It is important that you read the attached guidance/linked guidance below:

KCL CWP Jan 2026 - KCL Programme Brochure

KCL CWP Jan 2026 - KCL Application Guidance

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.