Job Overview
We are recruiting a Part time Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist!
At Marlborough CAMHS, we pride ourselves on creating a supportive and high-quality working environment. Our dedicated administrative team ensures that everything runs smoothly, providing you with the resources you need to excel in your role. Our staff are known for their friendliness and professionalism, and we maintain a culture where nothing is too much trouble. Regular meetings, updates, and training sessions keep our team informed and engaged. Our performance figures are consistently strong, reflecting our commitment to excellence.
We offer a warm welcome, a healthy and sustainable working environment, and a supportive atmosphere where you can thrive. Our wellbeing champions are always looking for ways to enhance our workplace, and we promise a cup of tea and a listening ear whenever you need it.
Our team ethos is simple yet effective: come to work, be happy, be yourself, do your job, be kind, enjoy your lunch, and leave on time. We believe in maintaining a balanced work-life dynamic and fostering a positive workplace culture.
If you are looking to join a team where you can be proud of the service you provide and enjoy a supportive and friendly environment, we encourage you to apply.
Main Duties
You will be part of an experienced and reflective multi-disciplinary team offering generic and specialist assessments and treatment as well as providing complex case consultations. As well as individual child psychotherapy, we also offer parent child relationship focused interventions, parent infant psychotherapy and STPP.
Psychotherapy is valued within Oxford Health and in Banes, Swindon and Wiltshire we have 9 child psychotherapists and 5 trainees across the 5 CAMHS teams and we meet annually with our counterparts in Oxford and Buckinghamshire, so you would be joining a strong network of child psychotherapists who meet regularly to think about our work.
You will receive regular clinical and management supervision within an environment that values the mutual support and skills of team members. Oxford Health has a strong training culture and we have a trainee in each of our CAMHS teams, the successful applicant would take responsibility for her service supervision. If this is your first time as a service supervisor, we are happy to support you to step into this role and will provide supervision and access to training if needed.
Oxford Health delivers the Thrive model to children and young people aged 0-18 years who present with a wide range of mental health difficulties. Oxford Health are a progressive trust who are often at the forefront of new service developments across the South West.
Working for Our Organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work. We provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our values are: Caring, safe and excellent.
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount
* Pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups
Detailed Job Description and Responsibilities
Marlborough CAMHS sits atop the hill, surrounded by the ancient Savernake forest on the eastern side of this beautifully quaint red brick town. There is plenty of free car parking, a cafeteria on site and the tranquillity of the office is enhanced by birdsong and punctuated with office laughter.
* We are currently devising a Training Strategy to ensure all clinicians at every band have the CAMHS specific training they need to enable them to confidently do their role.
* We are developing an ambitious and diverse rolling training program ranging from Trauma, gender concerns through to complex risk management.
* As a new starter you would be part of our induction program and have the opportunity to undertake the many trainings on offer.
* The trust has a strong research culture.
Applicants must have a full valid driving license and have access to a car for work, if necessary adjustments can be made in line with the equality act (2010).
We operate an out of hours service, but for this role you would be expected to work in office hours 9-5. Most of your appointments are likely to be offered at our base in Marlborough, but there will be some travelling for community and school visits, we also offer appointments and consultations on line via Teams.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Master’s level pre-clinical training at a training school recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and post– graduate training at doctoral level in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the ACP.
* Maintenance of ACP Registration.
Desirable Criteria
* ACP Supervisors training.
Essential criteria for supervision
* Advanced skills in professional supervision and an ability to deliver regular supervision to a range of professionals and psychotherapy trainees.
* Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
* Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
* Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit, research and service evaluation.
Experience
Essential Criteria
* Sufficient experience of working as a qualified psychotherapist within an NHS CAMHS clinic.
* Advanced knowledge and skills in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and its effective application to the mental health problems of children and adolescents with complex disorders and diagnosis, including pervasive and severe emotional and psychological difficulties.
* Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
* Ability to manage competing demands / manage a caseload.
* Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
Documents to Download
Band 8a JD & PS Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (PDF, 360.4KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Nel Bartlett
Title: Clinical team manager
Email: Nel.Bartlett@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01865 904666
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