Job summary
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Child Psychotherapist to join a highly specialist service for young people in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team offering adolescents and their families a responsive community-based service including outreach and intensive treatment. The team works closely with its multi-agency colleagues.
The post-holder will also be part of the leadership group within the team, ensuring effective day to day running of the team, and contributing to long term planning and team development, as well as support the development of other clinicians within the team. This also includes working with other senior clinicians across GCAMHS to help navigate changes in service provision, as the service is being redesigned according to the THRIVE framework.
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation trust is an established, active, diverse and creative group that meets regularly, offers opportunities for CPD, holds an annual conference and welcomes innovatory ideas and collaborations.
This post is for an ACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to work in a community based service with adolescents with complex presentations and high levels of risk.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessments, brief, medium and long-term treatment to children and parents in the GCAMHS Adolescent Team, as well as risk assessments and offer consultation, advice and training to other professionals involved in the child's care.
As a senior member of the team, the post-holder will be responsible for offering psychotherapy to young people, managing the psychotherapy provision for the team and offering supervision to child psychotherapists within the team or within the wider Greenwich CAMHS service.
The post holder will also have a role in the running of the team and supervision of clinicians in the team as agreed by the team manager and clinical supervisor. The team is located at Highpoint House, along with all other Greenwich CAMHS teams.
The service works with children and young people with a range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties. The post holder will act as a care coordinator in a multi-disciplinary team which includes child psychotherapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry and family therapy. You will be offering therapeutic care coordination interventions to children, and their networks, consultation to other professionals as well as specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic interventions.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
- To provide highly specialist supervision and consultation for multi-disciplinary within the Greenwich CAMHS and to staff of related agencies (health, education, Social Care, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system.)
- To undertake clinical audit, research and evaluation and to contribute to the development of child psychotherapy as required.
- To work autonomously within the overall framework of CAMHS and trust policies and procedures.
- To participate in monthly Child Psychotherapy Directorate meetings, termly seminars and the annual conference
Clinical
- To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children with psychological difficulties and moderate mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
- To provide specialist brief and medium and long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children with psychological difficulties and mental health problems.
- To deliver highly specialist preventative work, through parent-infant intervention and therapeutic work for infants at risk because of parental attachment difficulties.
- To provide, as required, highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for children and parents/carers who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems.
- To contribute, as required, to the process of care planning for young people referred to CAMHS.
- To monitor clinical progress through regular reviews of psychotherapy treatment.
- To deliver, as required, highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment for families who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems.
- To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services as required.
- To participate in regular reviews and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment, including, as required, children in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies.
- To be responsible, as required, for the application to work with children and adolescents using a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (.e.g. developments inpsychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, attachment theory, neuro-biology, systems theory, adult psychopathology.)
- To ensure the use of comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning in day to day practice and as part of the duty system in the service.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
- To provide highly specialist supervision and consultation for multi-disciplinary within the Greenwich CAMHS and to staff of related agencies (health, education, Social Care, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system.)
- To undertake clinical audit, research and evaluation and to contribute to the development of child psychotherapy as required.
- To work autonomously within the overall framework of CAMHS and trust policies and procedures.
- To participate in monthly Child Psychotherapy Directorate meetings, termly seminars and the annual conference
Clinical
- To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children with psychological difficulties and moderate mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
- To provide specialist brief and medium and long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children with psychological difficulties and mental health problems.
- To deliver highly specialist preventative work, through parent-infant intervention and therapeutic work for infants at risk because of parental attachment difficulties.
- To provide, as required, highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for children and parents/carers who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems.
- To contribute, as required, to the process of care planning for young people referred to CAMHS.
- To monitor clinical progress through regular reviews of psychotherapy treatment.
- To deliver, as required, highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment for families who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems.
- To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services as required.
- To participate in regular reviews and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment, including, as required, children in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies.
- To be responsible, as required, for the application to work with children and adolescents using a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (.e.g. developments inpsychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, attachment theory, neuro-biology, systems theory, adult psychopathology.)
- To ensure the use of comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning in day to day practice and as part of the duty system in the service.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Postgraduate doctorate level ACP accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Experience
Essential
- Community and CAMHS experience, Leadership experience
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Postgraduate doctorate level ACP accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Experience
Essential
- Community and CAMHS experience, Leadership experience
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).
