# Infant Early Years Practitioner - Early Childhood Trainee

**Company**: Allkind
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £37,888 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a trainee Infant and Early Years Practitioner to join our Mental Health Support Team. As a trainee, you will deliver evidence-based interventions to young children and their families while training at UCL. You will work under clinical supervision as part of the CYP-PT programme.

The successful candidate will:

- Work with children aged approximately 3 to 5 years and their parents or carers in Westminster and RBKC

- Hold a training caseload and deliver evidence-based early-years interventions, including Incredible Years and video-feedback approaches, under supervision

- Complete the UCL PG Dip in CYP-PT: Therapy (IEYP-EC pathway), combining academic study with supervised practice

To be considered, you should:

- Be able to study at postgraduate level and have a passion for early-years mental health

- Be a core mental health professional or a graduate with substantial experience of working with young children, parents, or families

- Be ready to work collaboratively with families, early-years settings, and the wider team

- Be committed to developing skills in evidence-based work with common difficulties in the early-childhood age range

The salary for this role is £37,888 per year, and the post is full-time for 1 year.

Benefits include:

- Opportunities for professional development and training

- Collaborative and supportive work environment

The closing date for applications is 27 October 2026.

## Skills

### Required
- Incredible Years
- video-feedback approaches
- UCL PG Dip in CYP-PT: Therapy

### Nice to have
- early-years mental health
- postgraduate level study
- substantial experience of working with young children, parents or families

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