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JOB
DESCRIPTION
Senior Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
A.
OUTLINE OF POST AND PRINCIPAL CONTRACT TERMS
Job Title Senior Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Psychotherapist
Contract Permanent
Hours 17.5 - 28 hours per week (0.5-0.8
FTE)
Pay£52,963 -£59,360 per annum pro rata (depending on experience)
Location Brandon
Centre, 26 Prince of Wales Road NW5 3LG
Reports to Clinical Director
Accountability Clinical Director
B.
JOB SUMMARY
The postholder will work
with the Clinical Director and the senior leadership team to provide clinical
leadership of the Brandon Centres long-established Counselling and Psychotherapy
Service. They will supervise other child and adult Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapists, and if appropriate to their training, they will manage and
supervise Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists in doctoral training on
placement at the Brandon Centre. They may also provide
ad-hoc supervision to other clinicians in the psychotherapy service (e.g.
Clinical Psychologists) or as part of their continuing professional
development. As a senior member of the psychotherapy service, their work
will include generic and specialist clinical assessments and treatments of young
people including brief treatments (up to 16 sessions) and some longer-term
treatments (up to 1 year), clinical supervision, and consultation to
practitioners both within and outside the Brandon Centre. The post holder will
help to co-chair, organise and/or facilitate parts of
the team meetings. They will support the wider work of the team in relation
to supervision, consultation, and other developments in clinical and training
activity.
C. BRANDON CENTRE OVERVIEW
The principal objective of Brandon Centre is to
provide a professional, accessible, and flexible service, which responds to the
psychological needs of young people under 25 years and their families.
The services we provide are:
- Counselling &
Psychotherapy Services for Young People
- Systemic Integrative Treatment
for Families
- Clinical
Training and Consultancy and Consultancy for Professionals
- Parenting
Programmes for parents of primary school-aged and secondary school-aged
children with behavioural and emotional difficulties.
- Enhanced
Health Living Childhood Obesity Service
- Therapeutic
work in the community such as supporting the Arsenal Girls Kicks programme and
our consortium collaboration with The Hive Youth Hub.
D. PRINCIPAL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
The postholder will undertake
clinical assessments and treatments of young people. They will be expected to
make a significant contribution to the clinical work of the service. The work
is highly specialised and is based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and
integration of complex data.
Clinical assessment and management
of risk, including safeguarding risks, for their cases, as well as those of
supervisees. The clinical workload will be agreed upon with the Clinical
Director.
They will help chair parts of the
team meeting along with other senior members of the psychotherapy service.
To attend weekly team meetings,
co-facilitate case discussions, and support with organising and/or facilitating
the second part of the team meeting (CPD slot; Tuesdays 12:30-1:30).
To provide an
efficient and effective psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for
young people with moderate to severe mental health problems.
To arrange reviews as required, to
communicate effectively with the young person, their family and their network where
appropriate, and to monitor their progress.
To liaise with the referring agent
and network around young people for their cases, or in supporting the work of
other members of the team. This may entail liaison with other services and
offering psychoanalytically informed guidance to parents/carers and service and
support networks.
To be responsible for
working within the appropriate safeguarding guidelines, for their cases, and
the provision of appropriate advice in supervision and consultation. This includes reporting to and liaising with
multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. Children's Social
Services, CAMHS, Adult Mental Health Services).
To be responsible for
continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people in their caseload
and during supervision/consultation discussions. This may be due to child protection concerns,
deliberate self-harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance
misuse, causing harm to others).
To formulate and
devise psychotherapeutic treatment and management plans for referred clients,
and to provide psychotherapeutic treatment, using a range of specialist
psychoanalytic methods and techniques appropriate to the service.
To provide reports on
young people to referrers and other outside agencies.
To participate in
regular reviews and ongoing discussions of cases in treatment with other
members of the multidisciplinary team and, where appropriate, coordinate and
organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies.
To maintain high
standards of clinical record keeping including written case notes, electronic
data entry and report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional
self-governance following professional codes of practice, Brandon Centre
policies and procedures.
To be responsible for applying
a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant
period (e.g. developments in psychoanalysis, child and adolescent development,
attachment theory, neurobiology, systems theory, social learning theory, adult
psychopathology, group work).
To engage
in regular clinical and service-related supervision. Some professional
supervision may be provided by an external supervisor if appropriate.
Clinical supervision, teaching & training
To contribute to the supervision
and teaching of members of the psychotherapy service, maintaining the standards
of psychotherapy throughout the Brandon Centre.
To provide clinical supervision
for qualified psychotherapists in the team, as agreed upon with the Clinical Director.
To provide some ad-hoc supervision
to other clinicians in the psychotherapy service (e.g. Clinical Psychologists)
or as part of their continuing professional development, in agreement with the Clinical
Director.
To arrange and participate in peer
supervision with other senior psychotherapists in the service.
As
appropriate, to provide specialist psychological advice from a
psychoanalytically informed perspective to other professionals working within
the service and within related agencies (e.g. health, education, social
services) to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, management and treatment of
clients.
To provide clinical
supervision from a psychoanalytically informed perspective to trainees of
related professions, as allocated by the Clinical Director.
To help organise and deliver
in-house CPD sessions.
To develop the training
possibilities of child/adult psychotherapists at the Brandon Centre.
To
maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local NHS, Social
Services and Education policies and issues of relevance to the service and
client group, particularly child protection procedures and practices, National
Service Frameworks and NICE guidelines. To work with the Clinical Director to
disseminate this knowledge and develop ways to apply this to the service
appropriately.
Management duties
If
appropriate, to provide line management, specialist weekly service supervision
and case management supervision for trainee
child and adolescent psychotherapists on placement at the Brandon Centre.
This will involve arranging clinical placements, and planning and devising
clinical work that meets training requirements.
To work with the Clinical Director and other team members to contribute
to the development, planning and implementation of new clinical and service
initiatives.
Research and Education
To utilise theory,
literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work
and work with other members of the service.
To contribute to the
development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and
services, through participation in research, service evaluation and audit.
To ensure
the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of
practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training
and development programs, in consultation with the Clinical Director.
To assist in
organising psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy placements at the Brandon
Centre by liaising with relevant training organisations.
