Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a CAMHS Specialist Psychotherapist to join the Enfield CAMHS - SAFE Team. This post is based in a supportive multi-disciplinary team consisting of other CAMHS professionals. Enfield CAMHS, within which SAFE is placed, is a supportive and welcoming service. At SAFE, we encourage applications from psychotherapists with a particular interest and skill in adolescent work, with an emphasis on engaging young people with complex difficulties, and their families, in assessment and treatment.
The Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield SAFE provides rapid, community-based interventions for young people between the ages of 13 to 18, who are in need of crisis mental health support. This includes young people who have harmed themselves or who are at risk of suicide.
Are you interested in developing your career? Come along to our range of Open Days atBarnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health Trust onto find out about the exciting roles availableand talk to #TeamBEH.
- 10-October at St. Ann's Hospital, Tottenham N15 3TH
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- 30-September at Hornsey Vale Community Centre, Mayfield Road, N8 9LP
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Main duties of the job
To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs.
To practice using a time sensitive model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy therapy in accordance with relevant evidence base and Trust guidelines
To provide parent/carer work in support of young people in psychotherapy
To help in planning, organising and running applied psychotherapeutic activities such as psychotherapy groups, short or longer term
To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE team
To offer specialist generic assessments and treatment for young people and their families/carers referred to SAFE, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care
To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
About us
At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Community and Mental Health Trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
The Trust's values are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working together
By coming to work at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust you will be joining a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed view of the role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed view of the role
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Evidence of relevant Continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Additional therapeutic training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems
- Experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in therapy
Desirable
- Experience of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
- Experience of delivering group interventions
- Experience and knowledge of working in inpatient adolescent services or liaising closely with them
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- High level of enthusiasm, flexibility and motivation. A supportive and positive attitude both towards service users and colleagues.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Evidence of relevant Continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Additional therapeutic training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to children, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems
- Experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in therapy
Desirable
- Experience of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
- Experience of delivering group interventions
- Experience and knowledge of working in inpatient adolescent services or liaising closely with them
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- High level of enthusiasm, flexibility and motivation. A supportive and positive attitude both towards service users and colleagues.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
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).
