Clinical Lead​/Band 8a – Family Therapist​/Psychotherapist​/Psychologist​/Psychological Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SET CAMHS team within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as a highly skilled Psychological Professional.

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate clinician to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families presenting with a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.

The successful post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care across the SET CAMHS pathway. This role offers the opportunity to work with complex and specialist presentations whilst also contributing to service development, consultation, supervision, training and leadership within the team.

This post is based within SET CAMHS Thurrock and attracts the applicable Fringe London weighting, in addition to the advertised NHS salary.

This provides an enhanced remuneration package for clinicians working within the Thurrock locality.

• Clinical or Counselling Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Family Therapists
• Psychological Therapists

The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children, adolescents and families presenting with complex emotional and mental health difficulties.

• Delivering highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families
• Providing comprehensive assessments and formulation in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team
• Supporting urgent assessments, parenting interventions and complex specialist cases
• Working across a broad range of presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, self-harm and behavioural difficulties
• Undertaking parent/carer work, psychoeducation, group interventions and brief therapeutic work
• Providing consultation, advice and expert clinical supervision to colleagues across SET CAMHS
• Supporting integrated multi-agency working with health, education and social care partners
• Contributing to audit, service development, clinical governance and outcome monitoring in line with CYP-IAPT principles
• Supporting the training and development of trainees, students and newly appointed staff

The role also includes contributing to the development of a positive, supportive and reflective team culture, ensuring services remain accessible, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of local children, young people and families.

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co‑produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by

the best people.

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,346 to a maximum of £2,270 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points‑based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High‑Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI‑generated content in applications. Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.

We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.