North London NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Therapy Lead

The closing date is 16 December 2025

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Job summary

NCEL CAMHS Home Treatment Team (HTT) provides a community based intensive provision as an alternative to in-patient care for children and young people. HTT service operates within the NHS Long Term Plan and NCEL objectives, focusing on improving access, reducing hospital admissions, and ensuring timely, community-based support for mental health needs. This specification is aligned with the recommendations outlined in the NHS England Guidance (2024) "Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care for Children and Young People: National Implementation Guidance."HTT offers intensive, short-term interventions designed to stabilise the individual and their family environment, promoting recovery and preventing the need for inpatient care. The service ensures that care is delivered close to home, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions, and promoting recovery through tailored evidence-based interventions. The service operates under the governance of the NCEL Provider Collaborative.Following the temporary closure of Simmons House CAMHS inpatient service, as part of interim plans, North Central London (NCL) CAMHS HTT will enhance its current service provision to support alternative treatment pathways for young people.

Main duties of the job

  • Contribute to the strategic development, planning and organization of the Crisis Pathway as a member of the senior leadership team, in line with local strategies and national priorities, working in partnership with a range of agencies and other senior management.
  • Provide clinical and professional supervision for psychological therapist within the service and oversee the leadership of psychological therapists within the pathway.
  • To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
  • To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care as well as delivering direct therapeutic interventions to young people and their families.
  • To lead and develop psychologically informed provision across the NCL HTT including reflective practice, group supervision, and other ways of working.
  • To work collaboratively with staff and service users, including via co-production to support service development.
  • To provide teaching, workshops and training internally as needed.
  • To support with audit and quality improvement

About us

  • The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

    In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

Details

Date posted

02 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£70,396 to £80,837 a year Per annum including Outer London Allowance

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

455-NLFT-0505

Job locations

St Ann Hospital

St Ann's Road,

London,

N15 3TH


Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated practitioner psychologist or systemic psychotherapist to provide leadership to the psychological therapists on the pathway, and to work within the senior leadership team to influence the strategic direction of the pathway. This is to promote psychological and trauma informed thinking within the care provided by teams across the pathway.

Please see the person specification/job description document for a detailed description of main responsibilities. This is not exhaustive however and other responsibilities can be included across BEH CAMHS as required.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this application early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached - please apply early to avoid missing out.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated practitioner psychologist or systemic psychotherapist to provide leadership to the psychological therapists on the pathway, and to work within the senior leadership team to influence the strategic direction of the pathway. This is to promote psychological and trauma informed thinking within the care provided by teams across the pathway.

Please see the person specification/job description document for a detailed description of main responsibilities. This is not exhaustive however and other responsibilities can be included across BEH CAMHS as required.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this application early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached - please apply early to avoid missing out.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Registration

Essential

  • Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) or An AFT recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
  • Professional healthcare registration, related to qualification above. (HCPC, UKCP)

Desirable

  • Post-qualification training to supervisor level in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice relevant to children and young people.
  • Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
  • Management or leadership training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Well-developed clinical skills working with children, young people & families.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communication sensitive information to young people, parents/carers and other professionals, and dealing with complaints.
  • Skills in working effectively within and across organisational boundaries.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups. Skills in providing teaching/training and professional supervision
  • Good computer skills,IT knowledge and knowledge of computer record systems
  • A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
  • Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS and appropriate legislation

Desirable

  • Skills in facilitating reflective spaces or group supervision

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • A significant number of post qualification years of experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young person's mental health setting.
  • Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement.
  • Experience of child safeguarding and risk procedures and how these apply in CAMHS.

Desirable

  • Experience of representing psychological professions at policy level
  • Experience of implementing trauma informed practice across systems
  • Experience of leadership

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional, and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with distressed children, adolescents, and their families/carer networks
Person Specification

Qualifications and Registration

Essential

  • Doctorate / PhD / additional training in relevant profession (counselling, forensic, clinical or educational psychology) or An AFT recognised four year training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
  • Professional healthcare registration, related to qualification above. (HCPC, UKCP)

Desirable

  • Post-qualification training to supervisor level in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice relevant to children and young people.
  • Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
  • Management or leadership training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Well-developed clinical skills working with children, young people & families.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communication sensitive information to young people, parents/carers and other professionals, and dealing with complaints.
  • Skills in working effectively within and across organisational boundaries.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups. Skills in providing teaching/training and professional supervision
  • Good computer skills,IT knowledge and knowledge of computer record systems
  • A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
  • Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS and appropriate legislation

Desirable

  • Skills in facilitating reflective spaces or group supervision

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • A significant number of post qualification years of experience at Band 8a or higher in a children / young person's mental health setting.
  • Experience of clinical audits and developing action plans for improvement.
  • Experience of child safeguarding and risk procedures and how these apply in CAMHS.

Desirable

  • Experience of representing psychological professions at policy level
  • Experience of implementing trauma informed practice across systems
  • Experience of leadership

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional, and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with distressed children, adolescents, and their families/carer networks

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Ann Hospital

St Ann's Road,

London,

N15 3TH


Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Ann Hospital

St Ann's Road,

London,

N15 3TH


Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of services Crisis Pathways

Shamara Bailey

shamara.bailey1@nhs.net

02082137800

Details

Date posted

02 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£70,396 to £80,837 a year Per annum including Outer London Allowance

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

455-NLFT-0505

Job locations

St Ann Hospital

St Ann's Road,

London,

N15 3TH


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