CAMHS Practitioner CYP-PT Therapy Trainee - IPT

Main area Psychology Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (January 2027 to January 2028) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) Job
-NLFT-8272928

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Haringey CAMHS, St Ann's Hospital Town South Tottenham, London Salary £45,953 - £54,254 Per annum including Outer London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

Our service has an exciting opportunity for a CAMHS Practitioner CYP-PT Therapy Trainee - Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes.

This is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients.

Please note:

The position will be based at Haringey CAMHS, St Ann's Hospital, but successful candidates will be expected to travel to the Anna Freud Centre in North London (Rodney Street, London N1 9JH
) for teaching during the training year.

We are seeking highly motivated candidates who are enthusiastic about making a difference to children and young people’s mental health through evidence-based interventions based on NICE Guideline recommended treatment.

You will be committed to the CYP Psychological Training Programme core principles:
Accessibility, accountability, participation, awareness and evidence-based practice and in providing an inclusive and effective service for children and young people, along with a dedication to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Please review the additional documents for more information on the role, person specification other employment documents.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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.

• 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 and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.

This full-time training will begin in January 2027 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and personal study), and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients (children, young people, and carers) related to training assignments. Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student…