Job summary
The post-holder will be required to provide a specialised contribution to the clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment of children, adolescents and their carers within the specialist field served by the Portman Clinic. The post-holder, with support from senior colleagues, will offer teaching and consultation to practitioners both within and outside the Trust and disseminate knowledge and expertise to professionals within those domains appropriate to the work of the Clinic. In addition, he or she will, where appropriate, be expected to provide information about cases which will contribute to the research being carried out by others within the clinic.
Main duties of the job
In collaboration with colleagues the post-holder will provide specialisedassessment of patients referred to the Portman Clinic, based on theappropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex information derived from a variety of sources including interviews with patients, and reports from other professionals involved in the care, treatment and/or supervision of patients. In the case of children and adolescents, this will involve interviews with parents and/or carers.
The post-holder will be responsible for implementing a range ofpsychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, families and groups asappropriate.
The post-holder will act as parent worker or the member of staff who liaises with the professional network and/or as Case Manager for patients treated by other child psychotherapy colleagues.
The post-holder will contribute to a developmental and psychotherapeutically - based framework for the understanding and the care of patients within the referral network.
The post-holder will undertake risk assessment of all patients duringassessment and treatment.
About us
The Portman Clinic was founded in 1933 for the specific purpose of studying and treating delinquency. Since 1948 the Portman Clinic has been an NHS outpatient clinic which offers assessment, treatment and management for children, adolescents and adults, male and female, who engage in delinquent, criminal or violent behaviour or who consider themselves to be suffering through compulsive sexual impulses which compel them to act in a way which may cause distress or harm to self or others.
The aim of the Portman Clinic is to develop, through its clinical work, a body of knowledge about criminality, violence and compulsive sexual behaviours, and to disseminate this expertise through consultancy, teaching, research and publication.
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
- Eligibility for membership of the ACP (for Child Psychotherapists) - Doctoral level qualification or equivalent in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a CAMHS setting or equivalent and considerable experience working in forensic or social services settings
- Experience with difficult, disturbed or challenging patient populations requiring skilled and complex psychotherapeutic interventions
- Experience of working in the role of child psychotherapist with children and adolescents with complex difficulties and special needs, and parents with mental health difficulties including the ability to work autonomously
- Experience of communicating about complex clinical matters verbally and in writing with other agencies or referrers within and outside the NHS
- Experience in a multi-professional network and awareness of issues for such networks and teams
- Experiences of undertaking outcome monitoring measures for clinical services oCapacity to communicate clearly with analytic and non-analytic colleagues
- Highly developed capacity of organisational skills
Desirable
- Experience of providing long term psychotherapy to patients that harm others
- Experience of working with high risk patients
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- A highly developed ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, students and to a wide range of professional people within and outside the NHS
- An awareness of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic assessment and intervention
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary / multi-agency team.
- IT skills as required for research activity
- An awareness of qualitative and quantitative research methodology and clinical audit.
- Awareness of appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of high quality clinical practice
- Teaching skills
Other
Essential
- Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work
- A flexible personality and a proven ability to work in a complex multidisciplinary context
Desirable
- Some experience of providing teaching and consultation regarding complex clinical matters in a multidisciplinary context
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligibility for membership of the ACP (for Child Psychotherapists) - Doctoral level qualification or equivalent in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a CAMHS setting or equivalent and considerable experience working in forensic or social services settings
- Experience with difficult, disturbed or challenging patient populations requiring skilled and complex psychotherapeutic interventions
- Experience of working in the role of child psychotherapist with children and adolescents with complex difficulties and special needs, and parents with mental health difficulties including the ability to work autonomously
- Experience of communicating about complex clinical matters verbally and in writing with other agencies or referrers within and outside the NHS
- Experience in a multi-professional network and awareness of issues for such networks and teams
- Experiences of undertaking outcome monitoring measures for clinical services oCapacity to communicate clearly with analytic and non-analytic colleagues
- Highly developed capacity of organisational skills
Desirable
- Experience of providing long term psychotherapy to patients that harm others
- Experience of working with high risk patients
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- A highly developed ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, students and to a wide range of professional people within and outside the NHS
- An awareness of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic assessment and intervention
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary / multi-agency team.
- IT skills as required for research activity
- An awareness of qualitative and quantitative research methodology and clinical audit.
- Awareness of appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of high quality clinical practice
- Teaching skills
Other
Essential
- Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work
- A flexible personality and a proven ability to work in a complex multidisciplinary context
Desirable
- Some experience of providing teaching and consultation regarding complex clinical matters in a multidisciplinary context
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).
