Psychotherapist - CAMHS

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Itchen Abbas; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire CAMHS is seeking a dedicated Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our Psychological Therapies service. You will contribute to specialist assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions for children, young people and families, using psychoanalytic-informed approaches within a supportive CAMHS framework.

The role involves managing a clinical caseload, collaborating with external agencies, and contributing to service development and governance.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate level training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy required.
• Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or eligible for membership.
• Experience in child and adolescent mental health services is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist child psychotherapy to children, young people and families within CAPT.
• Maintain and manage a clinical caseload with autonomous professional responsibility.

Skills

Psychoanalytic approach

Caseload management

Clinical governance

Supervision

Education

ACP registration

Postgraduate CAP training

Job description

Are you an enthusiastic and innovative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist looking for a rewarding opportunity? Hampshire CAMHS have a strong commitment to providing high-quality Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy for children, young people and families.

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy is a highly valued and protected part of our Psychological Therapies service. We are looking for a creative and motivated child psychotherapist who is committed to our CAPt values and core principles in offering and developing psychotherapy within our service.

Your unique and specialist skills, training and experience will support specialist assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions within our mental health service, including working with complex trauma, children in need and neurodiversity, working collaboratively across a variety of external agencies.

We encourage and provide opportunities to contribute to innovations and development within CAPt and our service and welcome flexibility, forward thinking & your contribution to team culture and processes including reflective practice.

You will be enrolled on our new to CAMHS training, therapies and CAPt leadership and team. The Trust provides a supervision package combining individual, management and clinical supervision, continuing professional development and regular group psychotherapy meetings.

You will have a core qualification in clinical Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and experience in child and adolescent mental health, with an ACP registration.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist child psychotherapy service to children, young people, their families, or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through psychoanalytically informed consultation, supervision, formulation, and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance. To work with complex presentations suitable for child psychotherapy in the team, utilising a high level of knowledge and experience and adapting approaches as appropriate, with regard to evidence‑based practice.

To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own

workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.

To support the team with aspects of generic CAMHS work including contacting parents of young persons to respond to clinically relevant cases and to update care plans and risk accordingly., Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Recognized postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists

Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence