CAMHS YJS Clinical/ Counselling/ Forensic Psychologist

Job summary
Do you have the ambition and drive to join the team taking CAMHS Youth Justice Service forward in Haringey and Enfield, providing effective clinical interventions that produce positive outcomes for young people, families and communities?

We are seeking a qualified and registered Practitioner Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary Team. They will be based in LB Enfield's Youth Justice Service based at Thomas Hardy House.

A recognised clinical qualification and registration, and relevant experience working with vulnerable adolescents, children and their families in a justice setting is essential.

As part of a small, supportive, dedicated YJS CAMHS team you will receive peer support, clinical supervision and connect to the wider generic CAMHS team. The team collaborate closely with the service and clinical leads to lead developments and improvement to the YJS mental health offer.

Main duties of the job
You will need to be a resilient and experienced clinician who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of your practice. You'll oversee a small case load of complex cases, planning intervention and support in a timely manner and, always, making sure that children and young people's voices are heard, positively influence your practice, and recorded consistently. You will also provide clinical consultation for cases open to the service.

Your work will contribute to the provision of the multi-disciplinary youth justice services in Enfield and Haringey in order secure the best outcomes for young people in their care.

About us
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.

Why NLFT?

• 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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

We Are Kind
We Are Respectful
We Work Together
We Keep Things Simple
We Empower
We Are Proudly Diverse

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.

Details
Date posted: 24 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-1022
Job locations: Primary work site: Thomas Hardy House, LB Enfield CAMHS Team Office base: St Ann's hospital, St Ann's Hospital, St Ann's Hospital Road, London, N15 3TH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Job Context:

• 1. The post holder reports to the Team Manager in both CAMHS and the Youth Justice Service
• 2. Work directly with children across the Youth Justice Service from pre court, post and in a community or custodial setting
• 3. Assume clinical responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families.
• 4. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team, and brief intervention where appropriate
• 5. Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention offer.
• 6. To work autonomously and participate in the delivery and development of patient centred, evidence-based care as appropriate.
• 7. Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection teams.
• 8. Provide consultation to partners such as police, project Engage team, YJS team on young peoples' mental health and support them in deepening their understanding of trauma-informed practice.

Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential

• Practitioner Psychologist: Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist; or Psychologist: Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS

Desirable

• Supervision / mentorship qualification
• Evidence of ongoing education / courses relevant to Forensic and Liaison Psychiatry

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• Confident in working with adolescents and their families.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of bio-psycho-social assessment
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals.
• Ability to undertake risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
• Ability to positively engage and offer intervention to young people and their families in community settings.
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff, including those in partner agencies
• Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing situations, seeking support when required
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• IT skills, using Microsoft Office; Adobe Acrobat; and Electronic clinical records systems / applications
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Ability to offer supervision to trainees and junior staff
• Ability to carry out consultations to other professionals and design/ deliver training around mental health topics to professionals.
• Ability to carry out audit, Q.I projects and support adjusting service based on the outcomes of Q.I

Experience/ Knowledge
Essential

• Experience of providing evidence-based interventions for CYP mental health
• Experience of work in multidisciplinary team and multi-agency working
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of Trauma Informed Care.
• Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting
• Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Understanding and experience of using evidence-based practice

Desirable

• Experience in enabling service user participation
• Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families within the criminal justice system.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to work autonomously in a pressured environment, be pro-active and resilient to offer timely support and intervention to young people under Youth Justice System

Other Requirements
Essential

• To be able to travel between the Trust and social care sites
• To be able to sustain high levels of concentration for periods of time
• To have and build emotional resilience, seeking support where necessary
• To be able to "think outside the box" and offer creative ways to engage young people and families

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).