Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based psychological interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of child psychotherapy interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

1. The post holder will be expected to undertake teaching, training and supervision in accordance with CAMHS and Eating Disorders service line common expectations for P&P staff and in line with the strategy agreed within the CAMHS Directorate.
2. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a psychotherapist and, where appropriate, other senior colleagues.
3. To gain additional experience and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service (as agreed with the responsible professional and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS and Eating Disorders service lines common expectations for P&P staff.
4. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
5. If required, to provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development

1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services (as directed), through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive and flexible to meet the needs of the local population.

Research and Service Evaluation

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

Other

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).
2. To contribute to and commit to undertaking an annual professional development review (PADR).
3. To undertake personal and professional development as identified in the Personal development Plan (PDP) as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
4. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
5. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:

• Current Mental Health Legislation
• The Childrens Act (1989)
• Trust, London Borough and panLondon child protection procedures.
• Local and national developments in SWLStG CAMHS
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Clinical Governance
• Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
• Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oQualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist having successfully completed a training course recognised/accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or equivalent, and registered with ACP
• oEvidence of continuing professional development.
• oPost qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.

Desirable

• oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• oFormal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• oFurther training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

Experience

Essential

• oConsolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care
• oConsolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• oDemonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a child psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• oExperience of service development or of a leadership role.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Livingstone House

Teddington

TW11 0LR

Employer's website

https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)