Job Overview
To provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. Providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non‑psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
Main Duties of the Job
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
* Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems or challenging behaviour.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people.
* Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi‑disciplinary care.
Working Hours and Conditions
Our clinic is opened from 8am to 5pm. The standard working hours are 9am to 5pm. There will be opportunities for home working, but clinicians will be expected to be in the clinic at least 60% of their working hours.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence.
Desirable criteria
* Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents across the whole age range (0‑18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers.
* Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management.
* Well‑developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies.
* Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
* Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
* Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings.
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to teach and train others and present the work of child psychotherapists within public, professional and academic settings.
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