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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

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Job summary

This post is for 1 WTE working across two services they are the Tier 4 Inpatient Unit Sunflower House and the Liverpool Enhanced Support Team (LEST)

Liverpool Enhanced Support Team is part of the North Mersey Region vanguard site implementing NHS England Integrated Care Framework (Community). The Team is a branch of CAMHS integrated with Children's Social Care working with young people who present with high-risk behaviours, high harm behaviours and high vulnerability understood in the context of trauma and adversity.
The post holder will require significant knowledge of children and young people who present with complex needs and high risk and have an experience in managing complex multi-agency relationships.
Responsibilities of the post holder includes professional/system consultation, case formulation, trauma informed interventions, reflective practice sessions for external practitioners the Team is integrated with, development and delivery of trauma informed training, service evaluation and audit etc.
Sunflower House is a part of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (AHCNFT) and sits within the division of Community and Mental Health services. It has recently moved to a new state of the art building within the main hospital site.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will offer a psychoanalytic perspective to the work of Sunflower House (SFH), Tier 4 inpatient unit for children (6-13) and the LEST service.
Providing a specialist child psychoanalytic psychotherapy service to children and their parents or carers who are inpatients or day-patients at Sunflower House.
The post-holder will also provide a time limited post-discharge follow-up psychoanalytic psychotherapy service if appropriate.
To offer advice, guidance, and consultation to external professionals regarding children/young people's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
To undertake risk assessment and management for individual children/young people and to provide advice for other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management in relation to the role.
To develop and maintain relationships with professionals across health, social care, education and voluntary/charitable sectors.
To provide service and clinical supervision to colleagues in the MDT and nursing team.
To produce timely reports for Inpatient Multi Agency Reviews (IMAR).
To lead the development of/run psychodynamic orientated parent or children's group.
To provide clinical supervision to a defined staff group and trainees as agreed with the clinical service lead, including psychodynamic informed reflective practice groups.

About us

This post is an opportunity to support children and young people accessing services at Sunflower House and via the Liverpool Enhanced Support team.

Date posted

23 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

411-COM-24-6060490

Job locations

Alder Hey Catkin Building - Sunflower House and Community work as part o f LEST team

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L12 2AP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assess childrens suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the request of the Case Manager/Clinical Service Lead.
Offer Psychoanalytic State of Mind Assessments for children on the unit, contributing to wider MDT formulation and care/treatment planning.
Offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children where this is clinically indicated. This would typically be on a weekly basis.
Where indicated, offer psychoanalytically informed parent work or family work, to either support individual psychotherapy or via an applied psychodynamic model.
Where indicated, provide advice, guidance, and consultation to external multi agency professionals and ensure the ongoing development and maintenance of relationships with them.
Provide weekly updates at the clinical reviews.
To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans to patients and their parents/carers
To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in accordance with good practice and AHCNFT policy.
To comply with AHCNFT, inter-agency and service policies, guidance and protocols, including those relating to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assess childrens suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the request of the Case Manager/Clinical Service Lead.
Offer Psychoanalytic State of Mind Assessments for children on the unit, contributing to wider MDT formulation and care/treatment planning.
Offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children where this is clinically indicated. This would typically be on a weekly basis.
Where indicated, offer psychoanalytically informed parent work or family work, to either support individual psychotherapy or via an applied psychodynamic model.
Where indicated, provide advice, guidance, and consultation to external multi agency professionals and ensure the ongoing development and maintenance of relationships with them.
Provide weekly updates at the clinical reviews.
To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans to patients and their parents/carers
To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in accordance with good practice and AHCNFT policy.
To comply with AHCNFT, inter-agency and service policies, guidance and protocols, including those relating to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A BA honours degree or recognised equivalent. Post- graduate training in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. This should be of at least 6 years duration and monitored and approved by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).

Knowledge

Essential

Substantial relevant experience in working with children, adolescents, and their families in complex settings. Substantial experience of giving supervision in clinal settings. Competency in electronic record keeping.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A BA honours degree or recognised equivalent. Post- graduate training in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. This should be of at least 6 years duration and monitored and approved by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).

Knowledge

Essential

Substantial relevant experience in working with children, adolescents, and their families in complex settings. Substantial experience of giving supervision in clinal settings. Competency in electronic record keeping.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Catkin Building - Sunflower House and Community work as part o f LEST team

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L12 2AP

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alder Hey Catkin Building - Sunflower House and Community work as part o f LEST team

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L12 2AP

Employer's website

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)