Recruit to Train Practitioner Infants and Early Years

We are looking for people aspiring to progress their career working with infants and young children via the Recruit to Train programme.

You will have applicable experience working with young children. Previous training in a mental-health related profession is desirable. This government-funded initiative promotes the growth and skill of the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand.

The postholder will attend training from January 2026 for 2.5 days per week, applying their new Parent-Infant intervention skills in our Under-5s team the remaining 2.5 days. Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with UCL/Anna Freud. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a UCL Postgraduate Diploma. You will be part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary under-5s team, providing care across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey localities. We are a friendly and supportive team. As well as receiving supervision, some team members have direct experience of completing the IAPT course programme, so you will be well supported.

Further to the training in specific modalities that you receive from the IEYP P-I Pathway training, you will end the year with a well-rounded experience of CAMHS work with young children, including:

Participation in triage and assessment

Formulation in our MDT meetings and supervision

Exposure to working with clinicians including Psychology, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Health Visiting, Speech and Language Therapy

Opportunities to contribute to audit and/or quality improvement initiatives

Course start date: 19th January 2026

Note: This is a dual application process. In addition to applying for this position with us, you must also complete a UCL application for the Course Team to review. The Course Team will liaise with us on whether you meet the academic requirements for the course during the recruitment process. You will only be offered a UCL training place if you are successful in securing this post and you meet the university training requirements.

Please view the attached document 'UCL CYP PT Therapy - Application Guidance for Candidates August 2025' for the university application link and more information on how to apply.

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

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

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.

More information about the course content and the different modalities can be found on the Anna Freud webpage: There is also a useful training FAQ section for prospective candidates: Prospective Trainees_ CYP IAPT Therapy Programme FAQ's.docx - Google Docs

Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with UCL/Anna Freud. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a UCL Postgraduate Diploma.