Job summary
Are you passionate about early intervention and giving children the best start in life? We are looking to recruit two innovative, energetic senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists to join our MDT dedicated to offering relationally- focused mental health support to children and their parents in the early years.
Our Tri-Borough Under 5's Pathway is a specialist team offering therapeutic support to families during pregnancy or with infants, toddlers or children under the age of five years old. The provision works closely in partnership with other services across the borough that support under-5s, such as education, health visiting and social care. Part of our offer includes a commissioned service for under-2 year olds in partnership with LB Enfield Family Hubs.
You would be joining a specialist team with creative scope to develop the pathway offer to under-5s and that are developing a range of partnerships in the community, so the post would suit a creative, flexible clinician with the confidence to offer consultation, supervise less experienced colleagues, and to contribute to service development.
Two 0.8WTE posts are available. Flexible working requests can be considered: note our policy of clinicians working a minimum contract of 3 days. If planning to request this we welcome contact prior to application/ interview to understand team requirements.
Note that if there is a high level of interest in this post it may close before the stated deadline date.
Main duties of the job
There are two posts available:
One post 1.0 WTE based mainly in Enfield, delivering a commissioned service offering therapeutic interventions in Family Hubs. There will be a focus on 0-2 years age range for this post, however the postholder will take cases from the wider age range up to 5 years and some occasional travel to other boroughs required
Second post 0.8 WTE is based mainly in Barnet, but with requirement to travel to other sites in Enfield and Haringey
Postholders will be part of newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies:
- To provide BEH 0-5 CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers, and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.
- To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS
- colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
- To provide Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic supervision to Team members as required.
- The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care pathways.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide generic mental health and specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessments of children and their families/carers referred to the 0-5 team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their familys mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
- To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
- To be responsible, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Lead, for implementing a range of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams, appropriate to your specialism (psychodynamic/psychoanalytic or systemic psychotherapy)
- To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist advice from your clinical model/ attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the development of formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans.
- To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a therapeutic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of your specialist model.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide generic mental health and specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessments of children and their families/carers referred to the 0-5 team, drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their familys mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
- To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
- To be responsible, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Lead, for implementing a range of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams, appropriate to your specialism (psychodynamic/psychoanalytic or systemic psychotherapy)
- To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist advice from your clinical model/ attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the development of formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plans.
- To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a therapeutic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of your specialist model.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registration
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to the introduction of training doctorates) and Current professional membership/ registration to the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of therapeutic practice (relevant to parent infant work)
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting.
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing,
- Skills in communicating complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups and non-professional groups.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced Knowledge of child development particularly in preschool children and the perinatal period.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes.
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.
- Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Ability to be part of the recruitment process.
Desirable
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet ACP requirements.
- Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Experience of group work.
- Knowledge of research methodology consistent with Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic or Systemic practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Must have significant experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, including experience within the designated specialty where the post is located (0-5 CAMHS).
- Experience of specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of the application Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families.
- Experience of risk assessment and management.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision.
- Experience of developing services.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- The capacity to contain high levels of complex affect in oneself, for one's clients and other team members.
- Supportive and positive attitude.
- Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions.
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to recognise and challenge all discrimination.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by your registering professional body.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Willingness to work flexibly.
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
Desirable
- Have your own car and a valid driver's license may be required but not essential.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registration
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to the introduction of training doctorates) and Current professional membership/ registration to the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of therapeutic practice (relevant to parent infant work)
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting.
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing,
- Skills in communicating complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups and non-professional groups.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced Knowledge of child development particularly in preschool children and the perinatal period.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes.
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.
- Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Ability to be part of the recruitment process.
Desirable
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet ACP requirements.
- Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Experience of group work.
- Knowledge of research methodology consistent with Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic or Systemic practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Must have significant experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, including experience within the designated specialty where the post is located (0-5 CAMHS).
- Experience of specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of the application Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families.
- Experience of risk assessment and management.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision.
- Experience of developing services.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- The capacity to contain high levels of complex affect in oneself, for one's clients and other team members.
- Supportive and positive attitude.
- Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions.
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to recognise and challenge all discrimination.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by your registering professional body.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Willingness to work flexibly.
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
Desirable
- Have your own car and a valid driver's license may be required but not essential.
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).
