Job summary
CAMHS in Haringey is facing an exciting and significant point in its development as it moves into the newly created BEH CAMHS Division, along with the CAMHS in Barnet and Enfield. The new division will be working with other agencies to further develop and then implement the iTHRIVE model in its approach to the mental health care of infants, children, young people, and their families across BEH. This is a needs led approach embracing the development and delivery of high quality evidenced based treatment models and care pathways to help address the needs of children and young people in the respective boroughs, in a responsive and timely manner.
Lead in providing a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS Team. Providing highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to MDT colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. Provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees, less experienced psychotherapists and non-psychotherapists. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Main duties of the job
- To be mindful to the needs of children, young people, families, and individuals from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious, and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues' innovative ways of meeting these needs.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions, including brief and long-term treatments, for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people, and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
About us
BEH-MHT Vision and Values
Our vision
Our vision is embedded within our clinical strategy. We want to help people live, love, do.
- Live - A safe and secure place to call home
- Love - Re-building relationships which may have broken down during a period of illness
- Do - Help people to find a meaningful activity - that may be getting back into employment or further education
Our values
The Trust's values are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working together
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe places for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes, and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced Post-graduate ACP registered training. MA in Psychoanalytical Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent.
Desirable
- Additional professional training e.g., PIP, EMDR, VIG, NVR
- Doctoral level qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified CAPT for a minimum of seven years, including at least 2 years at a senior level within CAMHS.
- Experience as a service supervisor of ACP registered CAPT trainees. Experience of working with CAMHS client group presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care settings.
- Highly developed knowledge the theory and practice of highly specialised child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, attachment, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology.
Desirable
- Service Supervisor training
- Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic therapies in specific, difficult to treat groups.
- Highly developed knowledge in the assessment and treatment of children 0-5 years and their parents/carers.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and psychological therapy including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, and neuropsychology.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to a culturally diverse range of clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional, non-professional groups and partnership agencies.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable
- Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy forums
- Knowledge of models and/or strategies of management and leadership.
- Understanding of them iTHRIVE approach to mental health care.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Capacity to work within a diverse MDT, maintaining the centrality of the needs of children young people and their families.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery across the age range, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Ability to motivate and inspire others.
- Must be able to contain anxiety without recourse to premature action
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery across the age range, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Ability to motivate and inspire others.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced Post-graduate ACP registered training. MA in Psychoanalytical Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent.
Desirable
- Additional professional training e.g., PIP, EMDR, VIG, NVR
- Doctoral level qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified CAPT for a minimum of seven years, including at least 2 years at a senior level within CAMHS.
- Experience as a service supervisor of ACP registered CAPT trainees. Experience of working with CAMHS client group presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care settings.
- Highly developed knowledge the theory and practice of highly specialised child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, attachment, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology.
Desirable
- Service Supervisor training
- Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic therapies in specific, difficult to treat groups.
- Highly developed knowledge in the assessment and treatment of children 0-5 years and their parents/carers.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and psychological therapy including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, and neuropsychology.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to a culturally diverse range of clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional, non-professional groups and partnership agencies.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable
- Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy forums
- Knowledge of models and/or strategies of management and leadership.
- Understanding of them iTHRIVE approach to mental health care.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Capacity to work within a diverse MDT, maintaining the centrality of the needs of children young people and their families.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery across the age range, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Ability to motivate and inspire others.
- Must be able to contain anxiety without recourse to premature action
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery across the age range, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Ability to motivate and inspire others.
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).
