Job summary
The CAMHS Looked After Children Team area looking to recruit a part time Band 8a Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, working 22.5 hours per week.
The senior child and adolescent psychotherapist will be a member of a well established camhs team working with looked after children and their care/professional networks; where the primary presenting problem relates to concerns about Attachment and/or Trauma. The team offers a range of direct and indirect approaches within a service model incorporating consultation, training, assessment and therapeutic intervention. The post holder will accept, prioritise, assess and treat referrals of children and their professional care networks where presenting problems are of a high level of complexity. The post holder will also provide clinical supervision, consultation and training to other health colleagues within the designated service area, within the MDT, Community Directorate and partner agencies
Main duties of the job
Provision of a highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic assessment of clients with highly complex conditions; based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of information from a variety of sources.
Implementation of a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for children, young people, carers and colleagues within the professional network of Looked After Children, adjusting and refining formulations as required.
Assisting with the management of referrals to the LAC CAMHS service, ensuring they are appropriately managed in consultation with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Being responsible in recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
Undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and providing specialist advice to other professionals on clinical aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To develop highly complex formulations in clinical practice and when consulted by others, for the psychotherapeutic treatment or management of complex presentations.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To share information relating to assessment and formulation with clients, carers and families in a responsive, empathic manner, taking into consideration the complexities of the circumstances and the highly sensitive nature of the information.
To communicate at all times in a highly skilled and empathic manner, often with highly sensitive information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
To communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals including all members of the multidisciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc, to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise the appropriate use of independence, authority and autonomy to inform practice, consultation, training and supervision within the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To share information relating to assessment and formulation with clients, carers and families in a responsive, empathic manner, taking into consideration the complexities of the circumstances and the highly sensitive nature of the information.
To communicate at all times in a highly skilled and empathic manner, often with highly sensitive information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
To communicate effectively with a wide range of professionals including all members of the multidisciplinary team, general practitioners, Social Services, education providers, voluntary agencies, user/carer groups etc, to maximise the quality of service delivered to clients and their families and carers.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise the appropriate use of independence, authority and autonomy to inform practice, consultation, training and supervision within the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in Child Psychotherapy (ACP and DH approved) equivalent to Clinical Doctorate.
Experience
Essential
- Prior professional experience of working with children and young people.
Knowledge
Essential
- Risk assessment and risk management Clinical governance Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in Child Psychotherapy (ACP and DH approved) equivalent to Clinical Doctorate.
Experience
Essential
- Prior professional experience of working with children and young people.
Knowledge
Essential
- Risk assessment and risk management Clinical governance Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
