Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join their dynamic CAMHS team at the Royal Free Hospital in London. This role involves delivering specialised psychotherapeutic assessments and treatments, supervising students, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance children's psychological care.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Expertise in psychoanalytic therapy and children's mental health.
• Experience with a variety of clinical cases and complexities.
• Registration with professional bodies.

Responsibilities

• Provide diagnostic assessments and therapeutic services.
• Supervise and support student placements.
• Consult with multidisciplinary teams on patient care.

Skills

Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy

Communication

Clinical Supervision

Team Collaboration

Child Protection Knowledge

Neurodevelopmental Conditions Experience

Education

Postgraduate training in clinical child psychotherapy

Job description

Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

We are seeking an experienced, strongly psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join us in our well-functioning and supportive, multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. We are primarily a neurodevelopmental service offering diagnostic assessments and therapeutic treatments. There are also some opportunities for paediatric liaison work. We are located within the Royal Free hospital between Belsize Park tube and Hampstead Heath train stations.

Main duties of the job

To provide child psychotherapy services to the Royal Free CAMHS neuro-developmental service. This will comprise providing specialist diagnostic and psychotherapeutic assessment, treatment, advice and consultation on patients' psychological care, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. Additionally, there are opportunities for some paediatric liaison work, particularly to provide a support service for parents and staff on the neonatal unit. Also, to provide clinical supervision, consultation and training to staff in the Paediatric Division to promote reflective practice and staff wellbeing. The post holder will manage Anna Freud Centre MSc student placements within the Child Psychotherapy team.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification

Professional registration, training and skills.

• Postgraduate training (doctoral equivalent) in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists' Statement of Equivalence and ACP Registration.
• High level of expertise and competence in the practice of psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy
• Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their parents across the whole age range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to infants, children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies. Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures.
• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, complex, clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to form good working relationships to work with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Experience of managing and supervising clinical and research placements for Masters' students
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups, including staff debriefing sessions
• Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Availability

• To be available to attend weekly MDT meeting on Tuesday mornings and the Child Psychotherapy team meeting on Thursdays 1-2pm. To be available to work on Mondays or Fridays

Theoretical and clinical orientation

• Psychoanalytic orientation.
• Ability to articulate clearly the role of Child Psychotherapy in multi-professional services, based on a good understanding of NHS and national professional policies.

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.

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

£61,927 to £68,676 a yearper annum (pro-rata) inclusive of HCAS