Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic and creative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our Generic Team at Greenwich CAMHS. You will be a senior clinician in a team that is well established and expected to play an active role in a service that is working to become more responsive and needs led. We are looking for someone with post qualified experience who is ready to take up supervision and support of band 7 psychotherapists, trainees and possibly colleagues from other disciplines. You will be part of the Generic team's clinical leadership team, helping deliver Directorate and Trust initiatives at service level and playing key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.
The postholder will be an ACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to work in a community based service with children, young people and their families.
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation trust is an established, active, diverse and creative group that meets regularly, offers opportunities for CPD, holds an annual conference and welcomes innovatory ideas and collaborations.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic and creative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our Generic Team at Greenwich CAMHS. You will be a senior clinician in a team that is well established and expected to play an active role in a service that is working to become more responsive and needs led. We are looking for someone with post qualified experience who is ready to take up supervision and support of band 7 psychotherapists, trainees and possibly colleagues from other disciplines. You will be part of the Generic team's clinical leadership team, helping deliver Directorate and Trust initiatives at service level and playing key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.
The postholder will be an ACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to work in a community based service with children, young people and their families.
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation trust is an established, active, diverse and creative group that meets regularly, offers opportunities for CPD, holds an annual conference and welcomes innovatory ideas and collaborations.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To work within the appropriate Child Protection, Deliberate Self Harm, Substance Misuse guidelines, for own cases and the provision of appropriate advice in supervision and consultation. This includes reporting to and liaising appropriately with the multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. CAMHS colleagues, and those in education, adult mental health and primary health, hospital staff, the Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, the named child protection worker, the Substance misuse Worker and Social Service staff).
2. To continually monitor and evaluate risk to/from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions, which may be due to Child Protection concerns, Deliberate Self Harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance misuse, causing harm to others and disturbance in very young children where parenting issues may constitute a risk to the child.).
3. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence-based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
4. To provide highly specialist short, medium and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems. Often these are children and young people who have not responded to other forms of specialist treatment and who, it is recognised, need a more intensive and in-depth therapy to reach their deep-rooted mental health difficulties.
5. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and support for parents/carers who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems. Often these are parents/carers who have not responded to or been able to access specialised therapy in adult services. This work requires mental effort and frequent exposure to highly distressing and highly emotional interactions in order to enable the children of such parents/carers to make use of psychotherapy offered to them.
6. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for families who present with complex and persistent problems.
7. To collaborate and join with other team members to provide specialist clinical services, e.g. Specialist emotional state and cognitive assessments, Narrative stems Assessments, specialist group work and assessment and treatment of trauma and depression.
8. To participate in regular reviews and ongoing discussion of cases of children in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies and the voluntary sector.
9. The above treatment functions will be extended according to the agreed policy and practice of the team to include group work, family work and work with parents as appropriate.
10. To use, as required, a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (e.g. psychoanalytical theory and practice in work with children/adolescents, their parents/carer and families; systems theory and practice in working with families, carers and networks; attachment theory and practice in working with children/adolescents and their parents/carers) and developments in attachment and neurobiology
11. To ensure the use of comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning in day to day practice and as part of the duty system in the service.
12. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
13. To contribute to the Duty Rota in Greenwich CAMHS, offering emergency assessments and, where appropriate, 7 Day Follow Ups to young people presenting in crisis (contribution to be agreed through discussion with Service Manager and Lead Child Psychotherapist).
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To work within the appropriate Child Protection, Deliberate Self Harm, Substance Misuse guidelines, for own cases and the provision of appropriate advice in supervision and consultation. This includes reporting to and liaising appropriately with the multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. CAMHS colleagues, and those in education, adult mental health and primary health, hospital staff, the Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, the named child protection worker, the Substance misuse Worker and Social Service staff).
2. To continually monitor and evaluate risk to/from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions, which may be due to Child Protection concerns, Deliberate Self Harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance misuse, causing harm to others and disturbance in very young children where parenting issues may constitute a risk to the child.).
3. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence-based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
4. To provide highly specialist short, medium and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems. Often these are children and young people who have not responded to other forms of specialist treatment and who, it is recognised, need a more intensive and in-depth therapy to reach their deep-rooted mental health difficulties.
5. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and support for parents/carers who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems. Often these are parents/carers who have not responded to or been able to access specialised therapy in adult services. This work requires mental effort and frequent exposure to highly distressing and highly emotional interactions in order to enable the children of such parents/carers to make use of psychotherapy offered to them.
6. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for families who present with complex and persistent problems.
7. To collaborate and join with other team members to provide specialist clinical services, e.g. Specialist emotional state and cognitive assessments, Narrative stems Assessments, specialist group work and assessment and treatment of trauma and depression.
8. To participate in regular reviews and ongoing discussion of cases of children in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies and the voluntary sector.
9. The above treatment functions will be extended according to the agreed policy and practice of the team to include group work, family work and work with parents as appropriate.
10. To use, as required, a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (e.g. psychoanalytical theory and practice in work with children/adolescents, their parents/carer and families; systems theory and practice in working with families, carers and networks; attachment theory and practice in working with children/adolescents and their parents/carers) and developments in attachment and neurobiology
11. To ensure the use of comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning in day to day practice and as part of the duty system in the service.
12. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
13. To contribute to the Duty Rota in Greenwich CAMHS, offering emergency assessments and, where appropriate, 7 Day Follow Ups to young people presenting in crisis (contribution to be agreed through discussion with Service Manager and Lead Child Psychotherapist).
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Doctorate level and relevant qualification as Child psychotherapist
Desirable
- 3+ years experience working as a Child psychotherapist, 2 - 3 years working with children and families in a relevant field
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people in NHS settings
Desirable
Experience supervisior
Essential
- Supervising junior staff and trainees
Desirable
- Experience of relevant patient groups presenting high levels of complexity and difficulty
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Doctorate level and relevant qualification as Child psychotherapist
Desirable
- 3+ years experience working as a Child psychotherapist, 2 - 3 years working with children and families in a relevant field
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people in NHS settings
Desirable
Experience supervisior
Essential
- Supervising junior staff and trainees
Desirable
- Experience of relevant patient groups presenting high levels of complexity and difficulty
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).
