Senior Lead Practitioner - EBT | East London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Luton, LU1 2PJ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	22 Nov 2026

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Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident senior CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence based interventions and improving service quality to join our Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) pathway within Luton Specialist CAMHS. You will be either aCommunity Mental Health Nurse, Family Therapist, Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist, Creative Arts Therapist, BACP Accredited Counsellor or Occupational Therapistwith the requisite professional accreditation.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.

The team is part of a dynamic and innovative CAMHS service, dedicated to continuous improvement of our offer to children, young people and families within our local area. There are a number of exciting quality improvement projects focusing on community engagement and service provision running across the service and the post holder will be actively encouraged to take part in these.

We are looking for a dynamic and organised professional toprovide a specialist service within CAMHS to young people and their families and with support from the Clinical Team Leads,take on some operational duties, including frontline leadership of the Emotional and Behavioural Team. This is a community-based post, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work.

The post holder will be an experienced clinician within their profession, confident in delivering specialist mental health assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders and their families.

The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Team Leads and senior professionals within the team to ensure operational services and care pathways are effective. This will include professional and practice development and ensuring high-quality client-centered care is delivered. The post holder will lead by example to maintain high standards of care and practice and empower the team to take on a greater range of clinical tasks to improve client care in the specialist CAMH service. They will be a highly visible presence in clinical practice and be accessible to clients and their families.

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.

There are also frequent new developments in the service, offering staff the chance to work at a higher banding during the time of the project. As part of the East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), there are a significant number of positions in the trust for clinicians up to band 8D, opening up paths for promotion for ambitious members of staff. ELFT also prioritizes staff wellbeing and we haveintroduced a range of staff wellbeing initiatives to support this.

Our clinic is readily accessible from North London or Milton Keynes and Northampton. ELFT offers attractive recruitment packages and in Beds and Luton we are committed to offering our staff the opportunity to develop their skills.The Trust supports commuting into Luton and offers generous contributions towards Annual Rail Travel Cards.

For further details, please contact: Dr Helen Barker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Team Lead (Helen.Barker26@nhs.net) or Miguel Massa, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist/Clinical Team Lead (miguel.massa@nhs.net)

*We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward for this vacancy at any time should we receive an overwhelming number of applications. We therefore encourage applicants to apply early if you wish to be considered for this post.

This advert closes on Sunday 8 Nov 2026

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