Child Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist CAMHS

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a permanent Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join their multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. The role involves providing high-quality assessments and interventions within a psycho-analytical framework, alongside training and clinical supervision responsibilities. Competitive pay enhancements and generous leave entitlements are offered.

Benefits

Pay Enhancements for evenings and weekends

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Permanent Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, with consideration for newly qualified psychotherapists.
• Experience in psycho-analytical framework and multi-disciplinary team settings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner.
• Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to professionals.
• Develop care packages for families including assessing and planning.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Consideration will also be given to newly qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists for whom this would be a development post moving to a Band 8a following 2 years post qualification. The role is to ensure delivery and development of high-quality specialist assessment and intervention underpinned by a psycho-analytical framework to complement the range of psychological/therapeutic services within the multi-disciplinary service. We offer a specialist service to families and young people through face-to-face contacts or indirectly by liaising closely with statutory and voluntary organisations. The post holder will provide assessment, consultation, training, groups and individual interventions for parents/carers and infants, young children and their families, and clinical supervision. Postholders will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers and have a clear understanding of professional boundaries. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner, particularly where dependent on other external agencies identified through supervision or complex case discussion.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, management and treatment of service users.
• Provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
• Following consultation, be responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation, ensuring active involvement of parents and infants.
• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of referred families and identify collaboratively the most appropriate treatment for them.
• Participate in the development and delivery of a programme of training for other professional groups working in the parent-infant mental health service.
• Lead on programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings.
• Lead on areas of service development.
• Deputise for the Clinical Lead in their absence.
• Provide Clinical Supervision both internally and externally.
• Contribute to the training experience of trainee Child Psychotherapists / Clinical Psychologists as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Permanent Band 8a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, with consideration for newly qualified psychotherapists for whom this would be a development post moving to Band 8a after 2 years post qualification.

Benefits

• Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Excellent pension.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Blue Light Card Discounts.