Job summary
Are you a passionate and reflective Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist looking to make a real difference? Come and join our friendly and welcoming team in the Oxfordshire CAMHS Getting More Help service, based inAbingdon and Banbury.
We're looking for someone who is excited to bring their skills, creativity, and insight into a well-established, multi-disciplinary team. You'll be working alongside experienced clinicians who value collaboration, mutual support, and shared learning.
What You'll Be Doing:
* Delivering a variety of psychotherapeutic interventions including individual child psychotherapy, short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (STPP), State of Mind Assessments and parent-child relationship work* Contributing thoughtful, psychoanalytically informed insights to MDT discussions and care planning* Holding a protected psychotherapy caseload, with time set aside for high-quality, reflective work
What We Offer:
* A nurturing environment where psychoanalytic thinking is valued and embedded in our approach* Regular clinical supervision with our Consultant Child Psychotherapist* Ongoing management support and a culture of team-based reflection and development* Membership of a wider network of Child Psychotherapists across the Trust, with regular opportunities to connect, share and grow* A Trust that prioritises staff wellbeing and offers a rich programme of CPD and training opportunities
Main duties of the job
- Caseload Management: Hold a protected psychotherapy caseload, offering assessments and a range of interventions including individual psychotherapy, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP), State of Mind Assessments, and parent-child interventions.
- Assessment & Treatment: Conduct psychoanalytic assessments for complex referrals and implement treatment plans based on psychodynamic principles.
- Therapeutic Delivery: Deliver highly specialist psychotherapy to children and adolescents, often in emotionally charged or complex family situations.
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Contribute to multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions and provide consultation to colleagues.
- Risk Management: Undertake risk assessments and advise others on risk-related issues.
- Care Coordination: Act as care coordinator where appropriate, ensuring communication with referrers and other professionals.
- Communication: Handle sensitive and complex information with skill, especially in emotionally intense or high-risk scenarios.
About us
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the "candidate guide to making an application" which is attached to all roles.
Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust 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 vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for further information on the role for anything further please speak with Miriam Creaser for details
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached JD and PS for further information on the role for anything further please speak with Miriam Creaser for details
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Advanced skills in professional supervision and an ability to deliver regular supervision to a range of professionals and psychotherapy trainees
- Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with psychoanalytic work
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Has received training (either formal of 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
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to other agencies
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Desirable
- Experience of supervising clinical staff
- Experience of group work
- Experience of working with or supervising trainee psychotherapists
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Advanced skills in professional supervision and an ability to deliver regular supervision to a range of professionals and psychotherapy trainees
- Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with psychoanalytic work
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Has received training (either formal of 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
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters to other agencies
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Desirable
- Experience of supervising clinical staff
- Experience of group work
- Experience of working with or supervising trainee psychotherapists
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
