Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

CPD opportunities

Travel to Surrey locations

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's Mindworks South Community Hub seeks a Band 7 Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist. Based at Theta, you will travel to Guildford, Leatherhead or other Surrey locations to provide expert therapeutic interventions for children and young people with complex mental health needs.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary team, deliver evidence-based assessments and interventions, supervise trainees, contribute to audits and service development, and

Qualifications

• Must be ACP registered or in training expected to become registered in 2026.
• Experience delivering evidence-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents.
• Ability to supervise trainees and contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide short, medium and longer term evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children and families.
• Deliver specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy, parent/child psychotherapy and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy.
• Supervise and teach trainees and colleagues within the service.
• Provide advice and consultation to schools and organisations.
• Lead therapeutic groups for parents and children.
• Work autonomously within ACP guidelines and trust policies.
• Develop audit and research activities and propose policy changes.

Skills

ACP registration

Child & Adolescent psychotherapy

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Audit / service evaluation

Supervision of trainees

Education

ACP registered or in training

Job description

The Children and Young People’s (CYPS) Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Mindworks South Community Hub. You will be based at Theta, with the expectation of travelling to Guildford, Leatherhead or other Surrey locations.

This post will be suitable for a highly motivated Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist interested in ensuring excellent therapeutic interventions are accessible for children and young people with complex mental health needs from diverse backgrounds. This is a permanent full time (37.5 hours) post. Applications are invited from Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists registered with the ACP and to Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists in training who expect to become registered in 2026.

The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering specialist interventions for children and young people experiencing complex, chronic and/or severe mental health difficulties. The post-holder will be highly skilled in evidence-based psychotherapy assessments and interventions. The post-holder will contribute to service-development through service-evaluation and audit, taking into consideration service-user participation.

All our staff have regular supervision and access to a wide variety of CPD opportunities.

• To provide short, medium and longer term evidence based therapeutic interventions for children and families.
• To provide specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy, parent/child psychotherapy, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, state of mind assessments, psychoanalytic parent work and psychoanalytic consultations.
• To supervise and teach trainees and colleagues within the service.
• To provide advice and consultation to schools and other organisations.
• To lead therapeutic groups for parents and children.
• To work autonomously within the ACP guidelines and trust policies.
• To develop audit and research activities and to propose and implement policy changes.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received. Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Whitefield Job title: Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist Email address: [e-mail]

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