Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the SAFE Adolescent Team. SAFE is a supportive specialist multi-disciplinary team, within Enfield CAMHS. The team has a strong tradition of child and adolescent psychotherapy work. We encourage applications from motivated and resourceful psychotherapists with a passion for adolescent work as part of a team.
SAFE provides rapid, community-based interventions for 13-18 year olds and their families, in response to a crisis, or when there are complex difficulties, such as emerging psychosis.
The post holder will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, brief and longer term.
Main duties of the job
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical:
- To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs.
- To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE multidisciplinary team.
- To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
- To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and ACP policy, under the supervision of the SAFE Lead Child Psychotherapist, and in collaboration with the Enfield CAMHS Lead Child Psychotherapist, the senior clinicians within SAFE and the SAFE Team Manager
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of young people and their families' 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.
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
- Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
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
The post holder will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, brief and longer term.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical:
- To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a few provisional hypotheses.
- To practice using a time sensitive model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy therapy in accordance with relevant evidence base and Trust guidelines
- To provide parent/carer work in support of young people in psychotherapy
- To help in planning, Organising and running applied psychotherapeutic activities such as psychotherapy groups for adolescents or for parents/carers, short or longer term
- To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be able to also develop and pursue their specific areas of interest or service development and research projects, where appropriate, and join our ongoing psychotherapy research and continued professional development work that is running at SAFE.
- To offer specialist generic assessments and treatment for young people and their families/carers referred to SAFE, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care
- To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
- To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To offer advice and consultation from a psychodynamic perspective on clients' psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services, Local Authority Social Care and the Education setting.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and ACP policy, under the supervision of the SAFE Lead Child Psychotherapist, and in collaboration with the Enfield CAMHS Lead Child Psychotherapist, the senior clinicians within SAFE and the SAFE Team Manager
- To be informed by evidence-based practice and participate in audit, policy and service developments and research within the area served by Enfield CAMHS.
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of young people and their families 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.
- To provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues and trainees, if appropriate, dependent on experience.
- To participate in the care provision, assessment and planning of young people presenting in crisis as part of the Crisis pathway
- To be up to date with both de-escalation, physical breakaway and PMVA techniques appropriate to service guidelines and policies.
Communication
- To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with children, young people and their families/carers who may be hostile or highly emotional, requiring the highest level of communication skills.
- To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
- To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team at SAFE, providing a psychoanalytic lens to assessment and treatment options, as discussed in Team meetings.
- To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service users.
- To communicate effectively with service users and parents/carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- To anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve it, as needed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, brief and longer term.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical:
- To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a few provisional hypotheses.
- To practice using a time sensitive model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy therapy in accordance with relevant evidence base and Trust guidelines
- To provide parent/carer work in support of young people in psychotherapy
- To help in planning, Organising and running applied psychotherapeutic activities such as psychotherapy groups for adolescents or for parents/carers, short or longer term
- To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be able to also develop and pursue their specific areas of interest or service development and research projects, where appropriate, and join our ongoing psychotherapy research and continued professional development work that is running at SAFE.
- To offer specialist generic assessments and treatment for young people and their families/carers referred to SAFE, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care
- To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
- To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To offer advice and consultation from a psychodynamic perspective on clients' psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services, Local Authority Social Care and the Education setting.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and ACP policy, under the supervision of the SAFE Lead Child Psychotherapist, and in collaboration with the Enfield CAMHS Lead Child Psychotherapist, the senior clinicians within SAFE and the SAFE Team Manager
- To be informed by evidence-based practice and participate in audit, policy and service developments and research within the area served by Enfield CAMHS.
- To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of young people and their families 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.
- To provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues and trainees, if appropriate, dependent on experience.
- To participate in the care provision, assessment and planning of young people presenting in crisis as part of the Crisis pathway
- To be up to date with both de-escalation, physical breakaway and PMVA techniques appropriate to service guidelines and policies.
Communication
- To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with children, young people and their families/carers who may be hostile or highly emotional, requiring the highest level of communication skills.
- To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
- To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team at SAFE, providing a psychoanalytic lens to assessment and treatment options, as discussed in Team meetings.
- To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service users.
- To communicate effectively with service users and parents/carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
- To anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve it, as needed.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
- Additional therapeutic training
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of complexity and mental health problems
- Experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in therapy
Desirable
- Experience of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
- Experience and knowledge of working in inpatient adolescent services or liaising closely with them
- Experience of working with young people suffering from psychosis, or at risk of developing psychosis.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
- Additional therapeutic training
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of complexity and mental health problems
- Experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in therapy
Desirable
- Experience of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
- Experience and knowledge of working in inpatient adolescent services or liaising closely with them
- Experience of working with young people suffering from psychosis, or at risk of developing psychosis.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
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).
