Overview
Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. The post supports children, young people and their families where there are emotional or behavioural difficulties. Assessments and therapy can be provided to children, young people and families, with CAMHS clinicians consulting with other professionals as appropriate.
As a Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a multi-disciplinary team, you will be assessing young people, delivering evidence-based therapeutic support, and contributing to the development and provision of the service. The service is based at Bay Tree House, Enfield, EN2 6NZ. You may be required to work at other Trust locations or travel to meetings outside of the borough as required. Clinical appointments are provided at the service base and in local schools and other multi-agency settings. Joint working, consultation and liaison with other professionals, services and agencies are a regular feature of CAMHS work.
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Responsibilities
* Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
* Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of a young person’s mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and methods with demonstrated efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
* Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining multiple provisional hypotheses.
* Evaluation and decision making about intervention options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors related to historical and developmental processes shaping the individual, family, or group.
Organisation context
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London and delivering excellent services to local people. Our Five-Year Strategy includes:
* Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
* Work with partners across North London to ensure equity of outcome for all.
* Offer supportive environments to make NLFT great places to work.
* Pioneer research, quality improvement and technology to be more effective as an organisation.
Requirements
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations from your normal place of work. This may include any location within Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary, on a temporary or permanent basis.
Contact
For further details or informal visits contact: Tamsin Elder, Lead Psychotherapist, tamsin.elder@nhs.net; Volker Agyekum, Generic Team Manager, volker.agyekum1@nhs.net
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