Job summary
The specialist child psychotherapist is responsible to provide leadership for the psychotherapy team as part of the clinical team within the service. The post holder will be part of the Senior Leadership Team in the service and will contribute to the task of managing change and service improvements, whilst maintaining quality and safety and identifying, mitigating and managing risks.
This role clinically manages psychotherapy trainees and provides reflective practice for non-clinical staff. The post holder will, as part of the SLT, lead the workforce in the improvement of the patient / service user journey, monitoring and responding to patient experience feedback.
The post holder will ensure that care plans and clinical interventions are effective and safe and will disseminate practice developments and examples of good practice throughout the service.
The post holder will retain clinical duties within the service line, offering expert advice for more complex cases .
The post holder will work with the integrated education and clinical leadership team in the development and delivery of an integrated educational and CAMHS provision for children and young people between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 3. This will include providing the most appropriate combined integrated health and education care plans for individuals and groups of children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will promote a culture of effective communication and integrated working both internally and with external agencies, contribute to the development of the workplace as a learning environment, maintain a safe and contained environment with this challenging and complex client group, actively promote equality and diversity, work in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate service strategy, development and improvement and initiate and maintain quality and governance systems and processes.
The post holder will contribute to the ongoing assessment of children in the school and join multidisciplinary case reviews and Educational Reviews.
The post holder will work closely with the teachers and other members of the multi- disciplinary team to consider children's behaviour offering support and consultation. The post holder will take account of the educational aims and provisions of Gloucester House with the overall therapeutic task.
The post holder will support the SLT in the management of day-to-day tasks/issues ensuring the smooth, efficient and effective organisation of Gloucester House.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the Headteacher & DSLs to ensure robust safeguarding processes are in place at Gloucester House that are in line with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.
The post holder will undertake an enhanced DBS check.
About us
Gloucester House forms part of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health needs, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Many of the pupils are neurodiverse.
Gloucester House aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment through an effectively integrated educational and therapeutic approach to promote the holistic development of the children and young people.
All the pupils at Gloucester House have an EHCP, some pupils are looked after or adopted, and many have had multi-agency involvement prior to attending Gloucester House.
Children and young people at Gloucester House have full time education together with a clinical care plan that may include individual or group work. All families have a clinical case coordinator and Parents, and Carers are offered 1:1 and/or family interventions or group sessions as appropriate.
The Gloucester House multi-disciplinary team includes teachers and progress support workers, specialist CAMHS nurses, a psychiatrist, child psychotherapists, creative therapists, CYPT-IAPT Practitioners, systemic family practitioners, an occupational therapist and a speech and language therapist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance, planning and prioritising these. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
Work with team manager on intake and referral coordination.
Provide consultation to external agencies as required such as GPs/schools/Local authorities.
Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with their clinical care.
Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests.
To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team manager.
Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patients psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
Arrange reviews and communicate sensitively and effectively with patient/service users to monitor progress during the course of multi- disciplinary interventions.
Liaise with the referral agent and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases. This may entail liaison with local services and participating in outreach meetings.
Communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex condition- related information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users/patients under their care who may be hostile or present with challenging behaviours and to monitor, evaluate and report as appropriate.
Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users/patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management.
If in a social work role, may be required to prepare detailed and complex reports and give evidence in courts, hearings and tribunals depending on service.
If in a social work role, may be required to take a lead role in safeguarding across the service.
Maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved.
Provide expert consultation and specialist psychological advice to other staff and agencies outside the Trust.
Provide cover for any relevant rota (duty/on-call/clinical)
PLEASE SEE THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION & PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR THE FULL DETAILS OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance, planning and prioritising these. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
Work with team manager on intake and referral coordination.
Provide consultation to external agencies as required such as GPs/schools/Local authorities.
Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with their clinical care.
Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests.
To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team manager.
Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patients psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
Arrange reviews and communicate sensitively and effectively with patient/service users to monitor progress during the course of multi- disciplinary interventions.
Liaise with the referral agent and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases. This may entail liaison with local services and participating in outreach meetings.
Communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex condition- related information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users/patients under their care who may be hostile or present with challenging behaviours and to monitor, evaluate and report as appropriate.
Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users/patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management.
If in a social work role, may be required to prepare detailed and complex reports and give evidence in courts, hearings and tribunals depending on service.
If in a social work role, may be required to take a lead role in safeguarding across the service.
Maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required and maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved.
Provide expert consultation and specialist psychological advice to other staff and agencies outside the Trust.
Provide cover for any relevant rota (duty/on-call/clinical)
PLEASE SEE THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION & PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR THE FULL DETAILS OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligibility for membership of the ACP (for Child Psychotherapists)
- Completion of a clinical training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by the Association of Child Pssychotherapy.
Experience
Essential
- At least two years post qualification experience of working as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a CAMHS setting with children and families.
- Significant experience with difficult, disturbed or challenging patient populations requiring skilled and complex psychotherapeutic interventions
- Significant experience of line management and clinical supervision of staff and/or trainees
- Significant experience of work in a multi-professional network and awareness of issues for such networks and teams.
- Experience of thoughtful adaptation and application of psychoanalytic psychotherapy working within a multi-cultural framework for families already marginalised by issues affecting care-experienced children and their carers or adoptive parents.
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience working in, and proving support and interventions for, schools and other education providers.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching nonpsychoanalytic professionals.
- Experience of conducting research in a clinical or educational setting
- Significant experience of working in the role of child psychotherapist with looked after or adopted children and adolescents with complex difficulties and special needs, as well as foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- Understanding of working with SEMH in schools and other settings
personal
Essential
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Eligibility for membership of the ACP (for Child Psychotherapists)
- Completion of a clinical training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by the Association of Child Pssychotherapy.
Experience
Essential
- At least two years post qualification experience of working as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a CAMHS setting with children and families.
- Significant experience with difficult, disturbed or challenging patient populations requiring skilled and complex psychotherapeutic interventions
- Significant experience of line management and clinical supervision of staff and/or trainees
- Significant experience of work in a multi-professional network and awareness of issues for such networks and teams.
- Experience of thoughtful adaptation and application of psychoanalytic psychotherapy working within a multi-cultural framework for families already marginalised by issues affecting care-experienced children and their carers or adoptive parents.
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience working in, and proving support and interventions for, schools and other education providers.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching nonpsychoanalytic professionals.
- Experience of conducting research in a clinical or educational setting
- Significant experience of working in the role of child psychotherapist with looked after or adopted children and adolescents with complex difficulties and special needs, as well as foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents
Skills
Essential
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
- Understanding of working with SEMH in schools and other settings
personal
Essential
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
