8a Child and Adolescent psychotherapist – under 5s teaminEnfieldinEnfieldPUBLISHED FRI 28 MAR 2025

Are you passionate about early intervention and giving children the best start in life? We are looking to recruit two innovative, energetic senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists to join our MDT dedicated to offering relationally- focused mental health support to children and their parents in the early years.

Our Tri-Borough Under 5’s Pathway is a specialist team offering therapeutic support to families during pregnancy or with infants, toddlers or children under the age of five years old. The provision works closely in partnership with other services across the borough that support under-5s, such as education, health visiting and social care. Part of our offer includes a commissioned service for under-2 year olds in partnership with LB Enfield Family Hubs.

You would be joining a specialist team with creative scope to develop the pathway offer to under-5s and that are developing a range of partnerships in the community, so the post would suit a creative, flexible clinician with the confidence to offer consultation, supervise less experienced colleagues, and to contribute to service development.

Two 0.8WTE posts are available. Flexible working requests can be considered: note our policy of clinicians working a minimum contract of 3 days. If planning to request this we welcome contact prior to application/ interview to understand team requirements.

Note that if there is a high level of interest in this post it may close before the stated deadline date.

There Are Two Posts Available

• One post 1.0 WTE based mainly in Enfield, delivering a commissioned service offering therapeutic interventions in Family Hubs. There will be a focus on 0-2 years age range for this post, however the postholder will take cases from the wider age range up to 5 years and some occasional travel to other boroughs required
• Second post 0.8 WTE is based mainly in Barnet, but with requirement to travel to other sites in Enfield and Haringey
  
  

Postholders Will Be Part Of Newly Formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, Undertaking Complex Specialist Assessments, Formulating, Managing Risk, Providing Specialist Interventions, Teaching And Consultation To Partner Agencies

• To provide BEH 0-5 CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers, and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS
• colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• To provide Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic supervision to Team members as required.
• The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care pathways.
  
  

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

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leonie Lee-Carbon Job title: Tri-Borough Under 5s Clinical Pathway Lead Email address: