Job summary
The Adolescent and Young Adult Service which is part of the Child, Young Adult and Family Directorate is a specialist Psychoanalytic Therapies Service for young people between the ages of 14 and 25, designed to meet a variety of needs specific to adolescents and young adults who are struggling with mental health issues, and to their parents and families. This service represents a long history and established tradition at the Tavistock Centre, spanning over 50 years, of offering a service to adolescents and young adults during this crucial phase of development.
The AYAS is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in the psychological and emotional difficulties of this age range. The Service includes child & adolescent psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and those training in these disciplines.
This post is for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Adolescent and Young Adult Service which is a specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapies service for adolescents and young adults (aged 14-25). Clinicians in the service also contribute to the Young Persons Consultation Service, which offers brief, psychoanalytic consultations to young people aged 16 to 30.
Main duties of the job
Maintain a high standard of clinical records, producing and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved, liaising with the referrers where appropriate, including liaison with local services and participating in outreach meetings.
Foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent way with internal and external partners.
Communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, at times dealing with service users who may be hostile or present challenging behaviour.
Ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to.
Contribute to the quality, safety and continuous improvement of services provided to service users and their families.
Act as a positive role model and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
About us
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist Degree level as a minimum plus Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- Eligible for registration as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registration as a full member with Association of Child Psychotherapists as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with patient population 14-25-year-olds). 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
- Substantial experience of supportive and psychotherapeutic work within a psychoanalytic framework.
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Substantial experience of assessing complex and concerning adolescent and young adults and making appropriate recommendations which integrate consideration for clinical need and risk together with resource implications, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Substantial experience of engaging and working effectively with challenging adolescents and young adults, their parents and families from diverse backgrounds, requiring highly skilled and complex interventions and case management.
- Experience of working within a specialist Psychoanalytic Therapies Service
- Some experience of clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- A strong interest in the mental health of young people and their families, and in particularly in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as other therapeutic models.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Awareness of issues regarding the provision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to under-represented groups and the ability to work effectively with adolescents, young adults and families from such groups.
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Competent user of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams and Zoom.
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist Degree level as a minimum plus Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- Eligible for registration as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registration as a full member with Association of Child Psychotherapists as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial clinical experience of working with patient population 14-25-year-olds). 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
- Substantial experience of supportive and psychotherapeutic work within a psychoanalytic framework.
Desirable
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Substantial experience of assessing complex and concerning adolescent and young adults and making appropriate recommendations which integrate consideration for clinical need and risk together with resource implications, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Substantial experience of engaging and working effectively with challenging adolescents and young adults, their parents and families from diverse backgrounds, requiring highly skilled and complex interventions and case management.
- Experience of working within a specialist Psychoanalytic Therapies Service
- Some experience of clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- A strong interest in the mental health of young people and their families, and in particularly in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as other therapeutic models.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Awareness of issues regarding the provision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to under-represented groups and the ability to work effectively with adolescents, young adults and families from such groups.
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Competent user of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams and Zoom.
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
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).
