Job summary
Salford CAMHS is seeking to recruit an experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist to join our MDT made up of a number of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, family and systemic therapists, and mental health practitioners.
As well as being a core team member, you will establish strong connections with an enthusiastic group of psychotherapists across CAMHS directorate for peer support.
You will receive regular supervision from a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist alongside training opportunities to continue your development.
The successful applicant will be confident and skilled to work independently and in collaboration with other professionals.
We encourage interest for candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
This is a part time post.
Main duties of the job
As a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will be a registered member of the ACP. You will:
- Work with children, young people and their families facing a range of mental health difficulties and challenges.
- Undertake expert and holistic assessments, including risk assessments, and deliver outcome based long, medium and short-term psychotherapy to children and their families
- Provide reflective supervision space for other psychotherapists and members of the MDT as appropriate.
- Offer specialist consultation to colleagues in the MDT, across the CAMHS footprint and to other professionals involved in the child's care. A comprehensive understanding of safeguarding is essential.
- Contribute to the development of trauma informed pathways within CAMHS and across the locality as required.
- As a senior member of the service, you will support the team in the delivery of therapeutic care coordination and evidence-based outcomes, ensuring that team processes and spaces for reflection are robust and well used.
You must therefore have good interpersonal skills and qualities to build good relationships and engage families with complex lives.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate/Professional level qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Desirable
- Additional training in psychological therapies and interventions
- Parent-Infant psychotherapy training
Registration
Essential
- Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Expereince
Essential
- Experience in psychotherapy/psychological assessment and therapeutic work with infants and young children and their families/ parents/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment independently and within a multidisciplinary and multiagency context.
- Experience of representing child psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
- Extensive experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
- Experience of delivering consultation and supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working in CAMHS and/or with infants and young children, prior to training as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Experience of autonomous practice and leadership within a therapeutic setting.
- Experience of Audit and Research
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of child and adolescent psychotherapy including highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytical/psychological theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychoanalytical/psychological methods of assessment and treatment of individuals, couples family systems, groups and organisations
- Knowledge of parental mental health in relation to infant/child mental health matters.
- The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family.
- Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation.
- To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies i.e., education, GP's, maintaining positive working relationships.
- The ability to work with people from a range of different backgrounds, cultures and or different ages.
- The ability to cope with stressful situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the case of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- To be able to provide feedback and constructive guidance to junior members of the team and trainees to facilitate their personal and professional development.
- The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
Desirable
- Delivery of training and consultation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate/Professional level qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Desirable
- Additional training in psychological therapies and interventions
- Parent-Infant psychotherapy training
Registration
Essential
- Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Expereince
Essential
- Experience in psychotherapy/psychological assessment and therapeutic work with infants and young children and their families/ parents/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment independently and within a multidisciplinary and multiagency context.
- Experience of representing child psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
- Extensive experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
- Experience of delivering consultation and supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working in CAMHS and/or with infants and young children, prior to training as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Experience of autonomous practice and leadership within a therapeutic setting.
- Experience of Audit and Research
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of child and adolescent psychotherapy including highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytical/psychological theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychoanalytical/psychological methods of assessment and treatment of individuals, couples family systems, groups and organisations
- Knowledge of parental mental health in relation to infant/child mental health matters.
- The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family.
- Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation.
- To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies i.e., education, GP's, maintaining positive working relationships.
- The ability to work with people from a range of different backgrounds, cultures and or different ages.
- The ability to cope with stressful situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the case of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- To be able to provide feedback and constructive guidance to junior members of the team and trainees to facilitate their personal and professional development.
- The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
Desirable
- Delivery of training and consultation
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
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).
