Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Integrated Care System; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

A respected healthcare organization is seeking a part-time Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in Harrow. The role involves providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for children and young people in a supportive multi-disciplinary team. Candidates with relevant qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

Regular clinical supervision

CPD opportunities

Involvement in quality improvement projects

Qualifications

• Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children and adolescents.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex information.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people.
• Formulate and implement treatment plans for child/young person problems.
• Evaluate and make decisions about therapy options.

Skills

Psychotherapeutic assessment

Communication

Clinical decision-making

Education

Masters level preclinical training

Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

The closing date is 18 August 2025

We are delighted to offer a Band 7 Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist post based at Harrow CAMHS.

Harrow CAMHS is looking for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Part time(3days), band 7) to join our friendly, supportive, and experienced multi-disciplinary specialist mental health service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled clinician who is able to maintain clinical curiosity and keen to engage in reflective practice as well as be able to be an advocate for children, young people and families' needs.

Clinicians who have previous experience within CAMHS settings and working with young people who have complex needs would be of benefit

This post is a great opportunity for newly qualified or early career child and adolescent psychotherapists who are passionate about working with young people and their families.

We would also welcome applications from candidates who will be obtaining relevant qualification for this post this summer

What will we provide you?

The post provides an excellent opportunity for clinicians to develop their skills and knowledge via regular clinical supervision, being part of Quality Improvement (QI) projects, CPD opportunities as well as multi-disciplinary working within experienced team of Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Nurses, Child Wellbeing Practitioners, Psychiatrists and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/DBT Therapists

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Main duties of the job

What does the post entail?

You will help the service to provide specialist mental health and neurodevelopmental assessments alongside specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people who are looked after. You will contribute to highly specialist assessments and intervention for a broad range of complex mental health concerns and neurodevelopmental differences experienced by children, young people and families within a socially, economically and culturally diverse London borough.

In your role as Harrow Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. You will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. As the post holder, you will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. You will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.

About us

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

You will work from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service for young people experiencing mental health problems in Harrow area. The post will be based within the Ash Tree Clinic, South Harrow and the post holder will be expected to maintain the close links with the Hospital.

The Ash Tree Clinic (Harrow CAMHS) is easily accessible by train from Kings Cross station, Oxford Circus, Euston, and Victoria, within around 45 minutes.

As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and your patients when working in our healthcare settings

Job responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. These will include long and short term interventions as appropriate to need
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people.
• Act as case worker, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; - post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.d their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety children, adolescents across the whole age range (0-18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
• Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers.
• Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor
• Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings

OTHER

• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• Ability to teach and train others and present the work of child psychotherapists within public, professional and academic settings

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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