CAMHS Practitioner | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£58,133 - £65,261 pro rata per annum Incl. HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, W8 5LW
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Nov 2026
Closing date:	9 Dec 2026

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Summary

We are seeking a passionate and innovate clinician to join the Enhanced Treatment Team within Kensington and Chelsea CAMHs service.

The Enhanced Treatment Team is a specialist sub-team that sits within the wider CAMHs service. We are a friendly and dynamic team, made up of psychology, psychiatry, family therapy, DBT/CBT and child psychotherapy. Enhanced clinicians hold a small though complex caseload, supporting families, young people and their networks where there may be significant trauma, complex risk and social adversity. Additionally, we offer consultation to the wider team where there are issues of clinical complexity requiring our expertise.

The young people referred to our sub-team require more intensive and responsive support, meaning that working flexibly, creatively and proactively is essential. The role will involve case- holding a complex caseload of families and young people, in a way that foregrounds therapeutic principles and practices. We are therefore seeking a clinician who has an interest and commitment to working under this framework.

We are looking for a suitably qualified and highly motivated individual with a range of assessment skills and significant experience of supporting children, young people and their carers, as well as experience of working with professionals from other agencies. We particularly encourage applications from Family Therapists and Psychologists. We would develop and support allied health professionals from other backgrounds wishing to work in this way.

The postholder will be supervised by either the lead family therapist or psychologist, dependent on their clinical background and expertise. There will be opportunities to join our fortnightly family therapy clinic should the post holder wish to develop their systemic practice. We have much innovative practice in the service such as Open Dialogue, parent groups, reflective practice and QI projects and we would welcome participation and/or development of other clinical initiatives.

This postholder will be required take on either a safeguarding lead role, domestic abuse specialist advisor or Participation lead. This role requires on-site working with the possibility of working from home for one day a week. Presence is required in the clinic on Tuesdays & Fridays.

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting, we will also adapt our offer where needed and liaise with schools or complete home visits if required. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

You will work from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service for young people experiencing mental health problems in Kensington and Chelsea.

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Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities

• Provide generic assessments of children and young people with complex Mental Health and Social Care needs.

• Formulate and implement Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and NICE guidelines.

• Be responsible for implementing a range of therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across CAMHS. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need.

• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options with MD Team considering therapeutic models and complex factors concerning that have shaped the individual, family or group.

• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people.

• Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

• Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour

• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management

• Act as care coordinator/lead professional, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.

• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under CAMHS care and to monitor progress during the course of their treatment.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Nov 2026

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