Senior Therapist/Advanced CAMHS Practitioner

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at a leading children's hospital for a Senior Therapist/Advanced CAMHS Practitioner. This role involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide specialized therapeutic interventions for children facing complex mental health challenges. You will play a pivotal role in assessing and treating young patients in a supportive environment, enhancing their therapeutic journey. Join a dedicated team committed to making a difference in children's lives while advancing your professional skills in a diverse and inclusive setting. If you are passionate about child mental health and ready to take on this rewarding challenge, we invite you to apply!

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health.
• Registered with relevant professional bodies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex assessments and therapeutic interventions for children.
• Coordinate care and provide consultation to external professionals.

Skills

Multidisciplinary Team Working

Complex Assessment Skills

Communication Skills

Consultation Skills

Cultural Competence

Education

Doctoral level training in child and adolescent psychotherapy

Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Nursing qualification

Job description

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Senior Therapist/Advanced CAMHS Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Main area: Advanced CAMHS Therapist or Practitioner
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 271-BBM-6907382

Site: Great Ormond Street Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £70,386 - £80,464 Per annum inclusive pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/02/2025

Job overview

Band 8b Clinician open to Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Family Therapists and Registered lead nurses with relevant additional training based in the Mildred Creak Unit at GOSH

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly specialist MDT in the Mildred Creak Unit within Psychological and Mental Health Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital (PAMHS). MCU is an eight-bed inpatient unit for under 13’s. It is part of the North Central London Network and provides treatment for a range of presentations, including functional disorders, eating disorders and patients requiring paediatric liaison.

We are looking for a senior clinician with extensive clinical experience who is interested in working in an inpatient environment. This is an opportunity for the post holder to draw on specialist knowledge and skills to understand and treat complex mental health conditions in childhood and early adolescence.

Main duties of the job

It is intended that the post holder will play a key role alongside other members of the MDT in the delivery of complex assessment, formulation and highly specialist therapeutic interventions for children and their parents and families during admission on the unit.

This will suit a clinician interested in expanding their repertoire of approaches within their core profession to support therapeutic engagement for children and families who can be difficult to reach. The role will include some care coordination as well as some ongoing therapeutic and psychological interventions. There will also be consultation for professionals and teams external to the unit and therefore this will require the post holder to be interested in the dynamics at play in wider systems and the importance of building positive working alliances with networks.

This role is designed to enhance the current MDT provision on the unit that currently provides systemic family therapy, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and a wide range of psychological interventions to both individuals and families.

Working for our organisation

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

• Doctoral level training in child and adolescent psychotherapy (registered with ACP)
• Post-graduate family/systemic therapy training to MSc level or equivalent as accredited by the Association of Family Therapy (AFT/UKCP)
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (eligible for membership of DCP within BPS) and registered with HCPC
• Nursing qualification and relevant experience/relevant additional training – NMC registered.
• Advanced training in Supervision

Experience/Knowledge

• Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinician at a highly specialist level
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of the application of discipline in different cultural contexts and of working in a multicultural framework
• Experience of preparing highly complex assessment reports and formulations.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people, safeguarding, child protection and the mental health act.
• Experience of teaching and training and presenting to multidisciplinary audiences at conferences and other training institutions.

Skills/Abilities

• Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Highly specialised assessment and formulation skills relevant to professional discipline, including family assessment, developmental assessments, state of mind assessments.
• Highly specialist skills in communication both verbally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to families and professionals.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Ability to identify research needs of the service and facilitate quality improvement projects.
• Ability to draw on a variety of approaches in the engagement of complex and hard to reach patient groups.

GOSH Culture and Values

• Knowledge and Understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.