Trainee Educational Mental Health / Children's Wellbeing Practitioner
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,262 - £36,027 per annum, inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Posting date: | 13 Nov 2026 |
| Closing date: | 13 Dec 2026 |
Summary
A Vacancy at North London NHS Foundation Trust.
The Enfield Mental Health Services Team are recruiting 1 trainee EMHP/CWP to continue to improve children and young people's mental health services in Enfield. 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.
Enfield MHST Team, work with children and families aged 4-17. We provide individual CBT and some group interventions/workshops, as well as 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 values a supportive working environment, continued professional development and career advancement.
This is a training position post holder will undertake training at UCL and King's College London alongside working in service for the Enfield MHST 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. They will also be taught how to deliver interventions in the community, for example, participation activities, training and group delivery. The post holder will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development, as well as be expected to actively engage local communities.
Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2027 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.
Shortlisted candidates will also need to submit an application to KCL for a place on the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Mental Health / Child Wellbeing Practice (see attached application guidance). The application form details are attached and will need to be completed at the same time as your application for a post. Applicants need to work towards their studies outside of protected study time. Candidates must also ensure that they address each point of the person specification in the application.
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Please see the attached Job Description (contains person specification) for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Nov 2026
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