Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is seeking an enthusiastic Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join their Early Intervention Service. The role involves providing comprehensive psychotherapy assessments and treatments for children and adolescents, particularly those under 5. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in handling severe mental health problems. This position offers professional development opportunities within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with children/adolescents with severe mental health problems.
• Ability to work autonomously within CAMHS framework.
• Strong skills in providing effective psychotherapy assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychotherapy assessment and treatment.
• Supervise and consult multi-disciplinary staff.
• Undertake clinical audit and contribute to development.

Skills

Child psychotherapy

Multi-disciplinary supervision

Clinical audit and research

Education

Qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job description

Overview

This is a fantastic new opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist with a particular passion for work with the Under 5s to join a highly specialist Early Intervention Service for children, young people and their families in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

The Early Intervention Team provides a thriving multi-disciplinary service offering a range of consultations, assessments & therapeutic treatments in both the community and at the main Greenwich CAMHS clinic. The work will involve a rich mix of psychotherapy treatments for struggling families of Under Fives and Under Fives consultations, to support organisations to firmly hold the emotional development of infants and children at the heart of their work. You will join a highly experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in the EIT team.

Although the post will be based in the Early Intervention Team there will be opportunities to work across the service to enrich professional development.

Responsibilities

• To provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children/adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• To provide highly specialist supervision and consultation for multi-disciplinary within the Greenwich CAMHS and to staff of related agencies (health, education, Social Care, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system.)
• To undertake clinical audit, research and evaluation and to contribute to the development of child psychotherapy as required.
• To work autonomously within the overall framework of CAMHS and trust policies and procedures.
• To participate in monthly Child Psychotherapy Directorate meetings, termly seminars and the annual conference.

About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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 and values

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’re Fair • We Listen • We Care

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

This advert closes on Wednesday 15 Oct 2025