Principal Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient Care

To work within your professional Code of Conduct.

To continually deliver and maintain high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognized best practice.

To ensure equality and diversity values underpin your clinical practice.

To respond positively to service user and carer feedback about the service.

Clinical

To provide senior highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment 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.

To provide generic EBT pathway assessments and short-term psychotherapeutic treatments where appropriate.

To provide psychoanalytically informed clinical supervision, consultation and teaching to Child Psychotherapists, as well as relevant colleagues within the EBT pathway and within the wider CAMHS. To carry out clinical supervision for team members and colleagues and undergo clinical supervision in line with the Trusts Clinical Supervision Policy.

To develop the trainee psychotherapy programme where possible

To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide advice to other professionals including social workers. To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people on own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions.

To undertake urgent mental health assessment as required, including being part of a rota within the service to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic mental health and risk assessment to young people admitted to A&E who have self-harmed/attempted suicide.

To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out emergency and urgent assessments

To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment reports for other agencies as required.

To manage a clinical caseload of complex cases (often with child safeguarding concerns).

To provide short term, medium term and long-term psychotherapeutic interventions as necessary.

To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within related external agencies who work with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Education, Social Care, Mentors, health visitors, Youth Workers).

To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies, including serving as care co-ordinator under the new CPA arrangements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A professional qualification in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy recognized by the Association of Child Psychotherapy and with current registration.
• Masters or doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year PGDip in Observational Studies.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience of working as a child psychotherapist with children and young people with complex mental health problems in CAMHS.
• Experience in working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices.
• Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies/practices relating to Mental Health and Services and understands the Child Protection Policy.

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

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

City & Hackney CAMHS

15 Homerton Row

London

E9 6ED

Employer's website

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