Job summary
If you are a dynamic, and creative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who holds ACP registration and is looking to develop professionally, and who has a passion for working with children, young people and families in innovative ways, this is a great opportunity for you.
We have 1 WTE B7 Child Psychotherapist post based across two Camden Community Teams, 0.5 WTE in North Camden CAMHS (based at the Tavistock clinic) and 0.5 WTE in South Camden CAMHS (based at Ampthill Square clinic).
North Camden Community Team (NCCT) and South Camden Community Team (SCCT) support the emotional well-being needs of young people (0-18 years) with assessment and evidence-based therapeutic clinical work. They are both rich multi-disciplinary teams made up of a range of clinical disciplines to include: Child Psychotherapy, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, CBT Therapy, Family Therapy and Psychiatry. The teams work closely with Camden schools, local authority and the voluntary sector. Both teams are warm, friendly and diverse teams whose ethos of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working supports us in responding to the complexity and diversity that children, young adults and their families from Camden present us with.
Main duties of the job
This post will provide you scope to offer supervision, consultation and training, alongside clinical work including outreach community work, work in schools and initial CAMHS assessments and brief treatment, child psychotherapy assessments and treatment (including work with pre latency children and their families).
You will be part of the team's various duty rotas which will include responding to urgent queries and offering urgent assessments. The post holder will be supervised by a senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and join a growing team discipline and large Trust wide psychotherapy group and there will be opportunities to join peer supervision and other groups.
Please note: This is a full time post. Thursday is an essential working day.
About us
The Child Psychotherapy Discipline is highly respected and well established in both teams, known for the high quality interventions they offer to the diverse population of Camden, including the long-standing tradition of Under Fives work with infants, children and their families.
You will join a large number of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists in the Trust and support Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Doctoral Training who hold posts across the 2 teams. You will be supported by experienced senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists and will have opportunities to develop and deliver innovative and evidence-based Child Psychotherapy in line with the needs of the service.
We are proud to offer a dynamic, innovative and needs-led service. We have a varied caseload ranging from children and young people presenting with a high level of complexity and risk to those who require preventative interventions. We work closely with the multi-agency network and offer CAMHS input in schools. We strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical duties, leadership, and supervision
2. The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance
3. Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners
4. Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example toGPs/Schools/Local Authorities
5. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
6. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team lead/manager
7. To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patients psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical differences and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
8. Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with thepatient/service user to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions
9. Liaise with referral agencies and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases. This may entail liaison with local services and participating in outreach and multi-disciplinary team meetings
10. If in a social work role, may be required to prepare reports and give evidence in courts, hearings and tribunals depending on service
11. May act as lead specialist within Service
12. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complexcondition related information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users/patients under their care and to monitor, evaluate and report as appropriate
13. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users/patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on aspects of risk assessment, management and safeguarding
14. To maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved
15. To keep up-to-date with knowledge of legislation, national and local policies andissues of relevance to the service and client group
16. Contribute to recruitment and supervision of less experienced staff
17. Provide cover for any relevant rota (duty/on-call/clinical)
18. Demonstrate a personal duty of care for equipment & resources
19. Service Development, Research, Teaching and Supervision
20. Involvement in small project work and other research projects including new Service initiatives in discussion with team lead/manager
21. Contribute to financial initiatives and cost and quality improvement initiatives for the Service
22. Train less experienced team members and those new to Service in own area of work. May be required to present at small meetings on specialist area of work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Clinical duties, leadership, and supervision
2. The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance
3. Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners
4. Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example toGPs/Schools/Local Authorities
5. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
6. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team lead/manager
7. To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patients psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical differences and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
8. Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with thepatient/service user to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions
9. Liaise with referral agencies and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases. This may entail liaison with local services and participating in outreach and multi-disciplinary team meetings
10. If in a social work role, may be required to prepare reports and give evidence in courts, hearings and tribunals depending on service
11. May act as lead specialist within Service
12. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complexcondition related information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users/patients under their care and to monitor, evaluate and report as appropriate
13. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users/patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on aspects of risk assessment, management and safeguarding
14. To maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved
15. To keep up-to-date with knowledge of legislation, national and local policies andissues of relevance to the service and client group
16. Contribute to recruitment and supervision of less experienced staff
17. Provide cover for any relevant rota (duty/on-call/clinical)
18. Demonstrate a personal duty of care for equipment & resources
19. Service Development, Research, Teaching and Supervision
20. Involvement in small project work and other research projects including new Service initiatives in discussion with team lead/manager
21. Contribute to financial initiatives and cost and quality improvement initiatives for the Service
22. Train less experienced team members and those new to Service in own area of work. May be required to present at small meetings on specialist area of work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registration with the ACP as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Desirable
- Further training related to mental health interventions with 0-18s
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of clinical experience of working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group 0-18s
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical supervision
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Some experience of working with schools or community based clinical work
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registration with the ACP as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Desirable
- Further training related to mental health interventions with 0-18s
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of clinical experience of working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group 0-18s
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical supervision
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Some experience of working with schools or community based clinical work
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
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).
