Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Generic Community CAMHS service in Enfield. This is a full-time post but we are also open to applications for part time working.
The community CAMHS team is a friendly and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a highly skilled Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity and risk, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of conditions including neurodevelopmental concerns.
The postholder will join a lively and supportive team of Child Psychotherapists. We meet on a weekly basis for clinical case discussions and discipline-specific areas of development/interest. Weekly child psychotherapy meetings, MDT Team meetings and BEH-trust wide CPD opportunities will contribute to professional development. We aim to support individuals to develop specialist skills and pursue specific areas of interest, training or service development projects, where appropriate.
We welcome applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds who are enthusiastic, highly motivated and resourceful individuals and keen to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide psychotherapy assessments and specialist psychotherapy treatment including Short Term Psychotherapy (STPP) and parent work, alongside briefer models of generic clinical work. There would be opportunities to provide supervision to other child psychotherapists within the Service and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team where appropriate. As part of the Generic team we also have opportunities to work with children under 5 and their parents/carers and our 0-5 Team is currently developing and expanding.
Working for our organisation
Working in BEHMHT, you will have access to a range of staff benefits, including personal support, such as: Childcare Scheme; Discounts - High Street and Online; Employee Assistance Programme; Occupational Health and other health and wellbeing services; Financial Wellbeing; Fast Track to Physiotherapy; Flexible Working; and Salary Sacrifice Schemes. We are also committed to Continuous Staff Development (CPD) through regular supervision and appraisal.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be an experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist with experience of working with children and adolescents and their parents. They will provide both direct and indirect care, working with colleagues within the multidisciplinary team. They will have knowledge / expertise of assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and adolescents with Mental Health issues and neurodevelopment disorders. This position provides opportunities to work with and develop links with health and social care as part of the THRIVE Framework to delivery of care for young people.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP),
* Full membership of the ACP
Desirable criteria
* Experience/Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
* Additional therapeutic training
* Specialist training in supervision
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
* Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
* Advanced skills in using a wide variety of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic theories and interventions
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychologically based assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Well-developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of/consultation with other staff
* Skills in providing professional supervision to members of the discipline and/or other clinicians within the MDT
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Skills in building positive working relationships with local colleagues and professionals from outside agencies and contributing towards a supportive and containing team culture
* Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
* The capacity to contain high levels of complex affect in oneself, for clients and other team members.
* Ability and confidence to work independently and awareness of when to seek advice/support from others
* Skills in developing for presentations in public, professional and academic settings, using complex multi-media materials.
* Good computer/IT skills
Desirable criteria
* Well-developed knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. Looked After and Adopted Children, Depressed Adolescents, children and young people with severe and enduring mental health issues, children with neurodevelopmental disorders and /behavioural difficulties)
* Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the ACP or other relevant professional body
* At least two years post qualification experience working as a Child and Adolescent
* Psychotherapist in a CAMHS setting, as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems.
* Experience of working with children, young people and their families/carers presenting with the full range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan
* Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families
* Experience of clinical risk assessment and management.
* Up to date Knowledge of legislation in relation to children, young people, safeguarding and mental health
* Experience of using outcome measures
* Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues.
* Advanced knowledge of trauma and attachment
* Personal experience of psychoanalysis leading to a high level of self-understanding in a clinical context
Desirable criteria
* Experience of using an electronic clinical records system
* Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and their families across the full range of care settings (including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings).
* Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts
* Experience of providing supervision to qualified child psychotherapists or trainees, or other members of the MDT
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of other highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
* Experience of group work
* Experience of providing time-limited / brief psychotherapy
* Knowledge of research design and methodology
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* Supportive and positive attitude, ability to work flexibly
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to travel in the community to various sites
* Have a positive outlook and commitment to service development and innovation
Desirable criteria
* Owner of a vehicle for the purpose of travelling between community sites, holding business insurance cover
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