Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job summary

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 12 month Maternity cover for 22.5hrs a week (needs to include Thursdays):

This post is for a Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Whole Family Team (WFT). The WFT is a specialist CAMHS service in the London Borough of Camden which is integrated within children and young people's services. The WFT specialises in working with families facing complex difficulties, who may be working with several professionals and may struggle to access community services. We provide specialist interventions for families where there are issues related to complex trauma and attachment. In addition to offering direct intervention, the WFT offers a large amount of consultation and risk support (under the thrive model) to other professionals working with children, young people and their families.

This post is specifically to be embedded within Robson House School which is a specialist therapeutic and educational placement for children of primary school age who cannot attend mainstream school because of social, emotional and mental health needs, or who have been permanently excluded from school.

The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities.

Main duties of the job

1. The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the teamincluding responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance,planning and prioritising these

2. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highlyskilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities

3. Work with team manager on intake and referral coordination

4. Provide consultation to external agencies as required such as GPs/schools/Local authorities

5. Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes withtheir clinical care

6. Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests

7. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessmentquestionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and tosystematically collect data on caseload as required by the team manager

8. Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient's psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy

**Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.