Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families for period of 6 months to cover some staff absences.
We are a creative, well-connected and energetic team with a longstanding reputation for child psychotherapy, which is well understood and supported within the broader service. At present we are a large team of 11 members. This includes trainees, ACP members and clinicians with other psychotherapeutic trainings.
This is a permanent, full-time post with well-balanced variety of work. There are 4 days in the clinic at Newham CAMHS (8 sessions) and 1 day in the NNU at Newham University Hospital (2 sessions) which is within walking distance. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential. Additional specialist training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is desirable.
Main duties of the job
This post will be supported within Newham CAMHS for case management and supervision, and by MDT discussion where required. The PLT meets weekly for clinical and business discussion.
The CAMHS sessions encompass clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you will also deliver. Newham CAMHS's Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.
Job responsibilities
* To provide a high quality evidence-based mental health and a specialist psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service to Ward staff (doctors, nurses and HCAs), the parents/ carers and babies attending the NNU.
* To work closely with the Matron and Consultant Paediatricians in the developing and delivering of the service commissioned in Newham NNU at Newham General Hospital.
* To provide specialist consultation, assessment and treatment for neonates and their parent/ carers.
* To be a member of the multi-disciplinary PLT at Newham CAMHS.
* To be a member of the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) MDT at Newham CAMHS.
* To provide high quality evidence-based mental health and specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic service to children and young people from birth 18 and their parents / carers, in the E&B and Psychotherapy teams in the clinic.
* To ensure that interventions are undertaken on the principle of strong, collaborative partnership working between agencies with each agency clear about which aspects of their work provide support, prevention and early intervention.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
* Minimum Masters level in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent.
* Postgraduate Diploma/ MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies or recognised equivalent.
* Registered member of ACP.
* Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience.
* Specialist Parent- Infant Mental Health training.
* Perinatal Mental Health training.
Note: membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement.
Experience
* A minimum of two years' post-registration experience working as a child psychotherapist in CAMHS.
* Experience of working with parents/ carers and their babies psychoanalytically.
* Substantial experience of a qualification or substantial experience in delivering evidence-based assessment and treatments children, young people and families with emotional and behavioural problems.
* Substantial experience of undertaking CAMHS assessments and formulating a wide range of child mental health presentations in conjunction with the MDT.
* Substantial experience of providing Child Psychotherapy assessments.
* Substantial experience of providing Child psychotherapy treatments of varying lengths and intensities.
* Substantial theoretical knowledge and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health.
* Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation.
* Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience.
* Knowledge and experience of working with Child Protection issues and mental health problems.
* Experience of consultation to colleagues from other disciplines.
* Experience of working with patients where English is not their first language.
* Experience of group work.
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity.
* Knowledge of recent legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children and their families.
* Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
* Knowledge of the impact of premature birth and neonatal admission on the infant, parent and early relationships.
* Knowledge of newborns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health and perinatal mental health.
* Advanced practical knowledge in area of NNU.
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.
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