Job summary
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Lead
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Psychological Medicine Service at UCLH as discipline lead for child and adolescent psychotherapy and in a senior leadership role in the service.
Children and Young people's Psychological Medicine sit within a large and busy paediatric and adolescent division at UCLH where mental health support and guidance is offered as part of the medical treatments children and young people receive for short- and longer-term health conditions.
The Psychotherapy team provides a range of assessments and psychotherapy interventions, including longer term and shorter term, treatment to children and young people (including young adults) within a variety of settings, including adolescent medicine, cancer and general paediatrics. In addition to direct therapeutic work, the post holder will contribute to the overall management of the service, supervise the child psychotherapists and other junior clinicians as well as deliver reflective practice to several staff groups across the trust.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Main duties of the job
This is a senior role that is highly valued by the services across the division.
The post holder will contribute to wider service development as well as the smooth delivery of complex mental health services. This will include audit and research within the area served by Psychological Medicine.
The post holder will coordinate the referrals in and out of the psychotherapy team and support the organisational needs of the team including job planning and service delivery.
Regular clinical supervision will be provided by an external senior clinician.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found athttps://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
UCLH:The department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine within the Division of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine deliver a broad range of child and adolescent mental health provision across the whole of UCLH. With our colleagues from psychiatry, psychology, social work, paediatrics and nursing the child psychotherapy team have roles within Paediatric liaison services, the feeding clinic, Turner clinic, inpatient assessment, and general paediatric outpatient clinics. There is also a busy multi-disciplinary Psych-oncology team based at the Macmillan Cancer Centre. Child psychotherapists additionally provide input in a broad range of adolescent services including the TRACCS service; a national service for children and young people with complex medical needs, including chronic fatigue and other medically unexplained symptoms. Our outpatient clinics are commissioned by NHS Camden and provide mental health assessment and treatment for local children and young people with complex health issues. With both a local and national remit our patients come from a broad demographic. Child Psychotherapy has a central role in the supervision and support of colleagues in many specialist fields including play specialists, clinical nurse specialists (CNS), junior Drs, and colleagues working in emergency medicine. The MDTs within the division are multi-professional and include paediatricians, nurses, dieticians, social workers and play specialists.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found athttps://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
UCLH:The department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine within the Division of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine deliver a broad range of child and adolescent mental health provision across the whole of UCLH. With our colleagues from psychiatry, psychology, social work, paediatrics and nursing the child psychotherapy team have roles within Paediatric liaison services, the feeding clinic, Turner clinic, inpatient assessment, and general paediatric outpatient clinics. There is also a busy multi-disciplinary Psych-oncology team based at the Macmillan Cancer Centre. Child psychotherapists additionally provide input in a broad range of adolescent services including the TRACCS service; a national service for children and young people with complex medical needs, including chronic fatigue and other medically unexplained symptoms. Our outpatient clinics are commissioned by NHS Camden and provide mental health assessment and treatment for local children and young people with complex health issues. With both a local and national remit our patients come from a broad demographic. Child Psychotherapy has a central role in the supervision and support of colleagues in many specialist fields including play specialists, clinical nurse specialists (CNS), junior Drs, and colleagues working in emergency medicine. The MDTs within the division are multi-professional and include paediatricians, nurses, dieticians, social workers and play specialists.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ACP accredited only)
- Training in supervision of Child Psychotherapists
- Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation regarding children and young people.
- High level of knowledge, expertise, competence and skill in current models and methods of practice of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, including short-term models of intervention.
Desirable
- Completion of post-graduate training in specialist area of clinical work. For example, parent-infant psychotherapy, couple's therapy, family therapy.
- Training in supervision of Child Psychotherapists
- Knowledge and awareness of the issues related to working with children and young people in a paediatric healthcare setting.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a senior role, with the capacity to demonstrate an understanding of the tasks and competencies involved in leading a team of senior clinicians.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child and adolescents and their parents/carers across the whole age range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
- Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their parents/carers as a full member of an MDT located in a specialist setting.
- Experience of applying psychoanalytic ideas in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of facilitating multi-professional service development/change management.
- Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision in a MDT context.
Desirable
- Experience of being a service supervisor for HEE funded trainees.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communication Skills: - Significant research and clinical knowledge of short and long-term psychological treatments and their application in a specialist context.
- Highly developed skills in written and oral communication. The capacity to convery clinically sensitive information to patients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.
- Personal and People Development: - Excellent leadership skills - Skills in providing consultation to other professionals both individually and in groups. - Ability to teach and train others in clinical and academic settings.
- IT Skills: - IT skills including word processing, use of email, internet and database management
- Management Skills: - Skills to ensure the safe running of a team, including, job planning, appraisal support and regular supervision.
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties to support and promote equality diversity and inclusion at all times within the workplace.
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
- Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
- Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal
- Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ACP accredited only)
- Training in supervision of Child Psychotherapists
- Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation regarding children and young people.
- High level of knowledge, expertise, competence and skill in current models and methods of practice of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, including short-term models of intervention.
Desirable
- Completion of post-graduate training in specialist area of clinical work. For example, parent-infant psychotherapy, couple's therapy, family therapy.
- Training in supervision of Child Psychotherapists
- Knowledge and awareness of the issues related to working with children and young people in a paediatric healthcare setting.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a senior role, with the capacity to demonstrate an understanding of the tasks and competencies involved in leading a team of senior clinicians.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child and adolescents and their parents/carers across the whole age range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
- Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their parents/carers as a full member of an MDT located in a specialist setting.
- Experience of applying psychoanalytic ideas in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of facilitating multi-professional service development/change management.
- Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision in a MDT context.
Desirable
- Experience of being a service supervisor for HEE funded trainees.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communication Skills: - Significant research and clinical knowledge of short and long-term psychological treatments and their application in a specialist context.
- Highly developed skills in written and oral communication. The capacity to convery clinically sensitive information to patients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.
- Personal and People Development: - Excellent leadership skills - Skills in providing consultation to other professionals both individually and in groups. - Ability to teach and train others in clinical and academic settings.
- IT Skills: - IT skills including word processing, use of email, internet and database management
- Management Skills: - Skills to ensure the safe running of a team, including, job planning, appraisal support and regular supervision.
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties to support and promote equality diversity and inclusion at all times within the workplace.
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
- Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control.
- Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal
- Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
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).
