Job summary
This is an NHSE funded training post as part of the Child and Young People's (CYP) Psychological Trainings which involves part time working as a Practitioner in Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS Early Intervention Team and part time studying with UCL/Anna Freud undertaking a programme of training in CBT.
This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for children, young people or families using the core principles of the CYP Psychological Training Programme and consistent with the evidence base in the area of CBT. The post-holder will work in the service, for at least 2.5 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme or undertaking self-study days for the remaining days, as required by the education provider.
The post holder will hold an appropriate training case load and complete the necessary assignments to meet the course requirements.
NB: There are two parts to the application process for this post. As well as applying for this role, you will also need to apply to UCL for the training program that is taught alongside the job. Applications for both should be completed within a similar timeframe to allow time for review. Please see document attached to this job advert titled 'UCL CYP PT Therapy - Application Guidance for Candidates August 2025' for further details.
Main duties of the job
Alongside completing the necessary studies, the post holder will be expected to fulfil the following clinical duties within K&C CAMHS Early Intervention Team
- With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals;
- Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department's referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;
- Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols;
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
About us
The Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea, and Westminster, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area. Clients of the Trust are drawn from a population that is highly diverse ethnically and socio-economically, including refugees.
The Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS Early Intervention Team provides early intervention to children, young people and families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, as well as consultation, advice and signposting to interagency colleagues on matters relating to the mental health and wellbeing of children within the borough.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals;
- Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;
- Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols;
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Training & Supervision
- Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at UCL/Anna Freud including practical, academic, and practice-based assessments, alongside private study;
- Apply learning from the training programme in practice;
- Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered.
Professional
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g., BPS, HCPC, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health;
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times and comply with data management systems and processes including submissions to the training provider;
- Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of care pathway;
- Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development;
- Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager;
- Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives;
- Keep up to date all records in relation to Continuous Professional Development and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments;
- Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional objectives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals;
- Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;
- Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols;
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Training & Supervision
- Fulfilling the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at UCL/Anna Freud including practical, academic, and practice-based assessments, alongside private study;
- Apply learning from the training programme in practice;
- Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical and case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered.
Professional
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (e.g., BPS, HCPC, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health;
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times and comply with data management systems and processes including submissions to the training provider;
- Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of care pathway;
- Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development;
- Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager;
- Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives;
- Keep up to date all records in relation to Continuous Professional Development and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments;
- Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional objectives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum second-class Bachelor's Degree or equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc) or relevant professional experience OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but have relevant professional experience are still encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Desirable
- Previous training in a mental-health related profession (e.g. psychology, nursing, health visiting, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special needs teaching, psychiatry, psychotherapy, counselling, CWP, EMHP and low intensity therapies).
- Proven record of previous academic attainment
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience working within children and young people in a mental health setting.
- Experience of multi-agency and/or multi-disciplinary working and liaising across internal and external agencies.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within a CBT framework and/or using CBT informed interventions.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk and safeguarding issues.
- Experience working within a CBT framework and/or using CBT informed interventions (e.g. PWP, CWP, EMHP and Parent Trainer).
Skills and Knowldge
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people and their families, whilst considering social differences.
- Ability to personally manage sensitive and potentially emotionally distressing caseload material
- Ability to reflect on own practice (in clinical supervision and practice tutor groups with course peers);
- Ability to follow policy and clinical governance procedures and make proposals for change
- Ability to complete academic work across different learning environments at postgraduate level and balance the academic demands of the course with clinical placement demands.
- Demonstrates adaptability and able to work with diverse communities
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- IT/Computer literate
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of CBT theory and its application.
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences good clinical practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum second-class Bachelor's Degree or equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc) or relevant professional experience OR Applicants who do not fulfil the academic criteria but have relevant professional experience are still encouraged to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Desirable
- Previous training in a mental-health related profession (e.g. psychology, nursing, health visiting, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special needs teaching, psychiatry, psychotherapy, counselling, CWP, EMHP and low intensity therapies).
- Proven record of previous academic attainment
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience working within children and young people in a mental health setting.
- Experience of multi-agency and/or multi-disciplinary working and liaising across internal and external agencies.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within a CBT framework and/or using CBT informed interventions.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk and safeguarding issues.
- Experience working within a CBT framework and/or using CBT informed interventions (e.g. PWP, CWP, EMHP and Parent Trainer).
Skills and Knowldge
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people and their families, whilst considering social differences.
- Ability to personally manage sensitive and potentially emotionally distressing caseload material
- Ability to reflect on own practice (in clinical supervision and practice tutor groups with course peers);
- Ability to follow policy and clinical governance procedures and make proposals for change
- Ability to complete academic work across different learning environments at postgraduate level and balance the academic demands of the course with clinical placement demands.
- Demonstrates adaptability and able to work with diverse communities
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- IT/Computer literate
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of CBT theory and its application.
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences good clinical practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
