Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

NHS; Bromley; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare service provider in Bromley seeks a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to deliver specialized psychotherapy to children and adolescents facing severe mental health challenges. This role involves collaborating with a multidisciplinary team and providing assessments and treatments, ensuring that the care provided is based on best practices and evidence-based research. Competitive salary in the range of £53,751 to £60,651 pro rata per annum.

Qualifications

• Must have completed or be close to completing a doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
• Experience of working with children across a broad age range.
• Evidence of appropriate CPD or additional training.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with complex mental health problems.
• Conduct risk assessments and crisis planning for at-risk youth.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary team discussions and care planning.

Skills

Experience working within a CAMHS setting

Ability to engage and work with children and young people

Knowledge of psychoanalysis and child development

Education

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (doctorate)

Registration with relevant professional body

Job description

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our LAAC Team at Bromley CAMHS. The postholder will also support our other CAMHS teams, including the Adolescent Team.

This postholder will be anACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to work in a community based service with children, young people and their families.

The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation trust is an established, active, diverse and creative group that meets regularly, offers opportunities for CPD, holds an annual conference and welcomes innovatory ideas and collaborations.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will join a thriving group of child psychotherapists in Bromley CAMHS and in Oxleas Trust. Theywill provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.

The postholder will provide consultation, teaching, and training to multi-disciplinary staff within the CAMHS team and to staff of related agencies (health, education, social services, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system).

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, and their carers/parents and families, and to make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence-based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
• To provide highly specialist brief, medium and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems. Due to the nature of their difficulties, these children and young people may be hard to engage, and may have received other interventions, or be working with medical or community colleagues offering physical therapist or other forms of specialist treatments. It is recognised that they may need a range of interventions that may include a more intensive and in-depth therapy to reach their deep-rooted mental health difficulties.
• To provide in depth risk-assessments of young people who are a risk to themselves / and or others and to be able to formulate short-term crisis planning, (which may involve some outreach working), in order to provide support that will enable the young person to engage with on-going treatment at a later stage.
• To contribute, as required, to the process of care planning for young people referred within the Generic Team and to manage a complex caseload as care coordinator working within a multi-disciplinary team which includes: psychiatry, psychology, child psychotherapy, nursing, family therapy and social work.
• To monitor clinical progress through regular reviews of psychotherapy treatment.
• To deliver, as required, highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment for families who are hard to engage and who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems.
• To provide highly specialist assessment reports for Social Care and Court where appropriate.
• To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services as required e.g. Court assessments, parenting assessments, specialist emotional state and cognitive assessments, specialist group work and assessment of trauma and depression.
• To participate in regular CPA reviews and on-going discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies.
• To be able to engage and work with children and young people with a range of learning and developmental difficulties while drawing upon a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (.e.g. developments in psychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, attachment theory, neuro-biology, systems theory, adult psychopathology, mentalization-based theory and thinking.)
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (doctorate), complete/due to complete
• Registration with relevant professional body

Experience

• Experience of working within a CAMHS setting
• Experience of working with children across the age range

CPD

• Evidence of appropriate CPD and/or additional training

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.

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearpro rata pa inc