Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
The closing date is 15 June 2026
This exciting opportunity, which is a 3‑day post, situated within the Trauma and Resilience Services, is aimed at recruiting a suitably qualified ACP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
Main duties of the job
The Trauma and Resilience Services work across both the Trust and regional footprints and is looking for a creative and adaptable clinician to apply their knowledge and expertise to consultancy, teaching and pathway development.
The successful applicant will have an ability and maturity to work across non‑traditional settings to the benefit of survivors and victims and staff who support them. They are able to operate at a senior level, have a capacity to tolerate uncertainty and create solutions in relation to innovative ways of offering services. They will recognise and work to overcome barriers to health inequalities by enhancing mental health services through integrative and neighbourhood approaches to service delivery.
The service offers professional development through in‑house training and supervision as well as though linking in with external providers.
Qualifications
* Child and adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: Post‑graduate training (doctoral level equivalent).
* Registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees.
* Evidence a commitment to the development of consultancy expertise.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Evidence of psychodynamic and/or systems training experience.
* Experience of teaching at a doctoral clinical level and to a wide range of non‑clinicians.
Experience
* Working as a qualified child and adolescent Psychotherapist, to a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a variety of care settings.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' care as a care coordinator or leader of a multidisciplinary team.
* Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies.
* Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
* Research and development.
* Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives.
* Clinical experience of complex trauma.
* Project Management.
* Working in or with the third sector.
* Organisational consultancy.
Knowledge
* Evidence‑based practice relevant to the role.
* Risk assessment and risk management.
* Clinical governance.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
* Audit and research methodology.
* Social Inclusion agenda/health inequalities.
* Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour, high risk, co‑occurring neurodiversity with trauma.
* Knowledge of The Trust's Promises.
Skills / Abilities
* Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people.
* Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with complex trauma and sexual abuse and assault.
* Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision.
* Undertake complex multi‑agency working and liaise with multiple systems.
* Ability to develop and foster a consultative stance.
* Utilise psychometric tests competently (if clinical psychologist).
* Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision within a multidisciplinary team.
* Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions/means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
* Use approved breakaway techniques.
* Project management.
Additional Requirements
* Able to work in accordance with the Trust Values and Behaviours Framework.
* Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances. To understand behaviour as a communication.
* Able to work flexibly and collaboratively as part of a team.
* Committed to continual quality and service improvement.
* Highly developed capacity for self‑reflection, thinking skills and maintaining a consultative stance, especially in contentious and sensitive situations. Utilising this with teams and individuals at all levels of a hierarchy.
* High level of capacity for compassion in the face of moral injurious situations whilst maintaining and supporting a boundaried approach to own limitations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year, pro rata.
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