Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the HPFT CAMHS West team.
HPFT is at the forefront of providing integrated health and social care. The Trust is one of only a handful of mental health trusts in the country to receive a CQC rating of 'OUTSTANDING'.
Services for young people in the Trust also include:
Children Looked After Team
Eating Disorders Team
Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
DBT team
Forensic Adolescent Practitioner service
Adolescent inpatient unit
Home Treatment Team
We have strong links with Children's Social Care in Hertfordshire, Education services in Hertfordshire,and other Hertfordshire children's health services, including teams providing Tier 2 CAMHS.
HPFT has been rated by the CQC as an Outstanding Trust (2019) and Specialist CAMHS has consistently been at the forefront of national developments in child and adolescent mental health, including CYP-IAPT and Mental Health Support Teams in schools.
Main duties of the job
You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS team covering the West quadrant of the county and have the opportunity to work alongside other psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nursing and psychiatry. You will have ACP registration.
You will have the opportunity to develop supervision skills by providing some case supervision to a Trainee Child Psychotherapist. There will be opportunities to develop the role further in the context of the service needs.'The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
**Please note should sufficient applications be received HPFT reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time, we always encourage all interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid disappointment**
Flexible hours will be considered.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will provide a highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT). You will also provide supervision to junior and pre-qualified clinicians in the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will provide a highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT). You will also provide supervision to junior and pre-qualified clinicians in the service.
Person Specification
Training and Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate clinical doctorate level (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) (including 2yrs pre-clinical masters/diploma level training) in psycho-analytic psychotherapy, accredited by the ACP
- Evidence of further specialist training and/or supervised experience in treatment techniques or areas of clinical need, and knowledge of management or research, e.g. parent/infant work, brief psychotherapy, work with looked after children and their carers, work with adopted children and their adoptive parents, work with children with disabilities, consultation, supervision or research
- Registered with the ACP and eligible for registration with the BPC and/or the PSA (previously CHRE)
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individual child/adolescent and their families
- Knowledge and experience of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents, their carers and professional networks
- Awareness of current relevant legislation and National Service Frameworks and their implications for clinical practice
- Awareness of Child Protection Procedures
- IT Skills
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of service quality monitoring (eg clinical audit, evaluation research etc.
- implications for clinical practice ? Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYPIAPT
Person Specification
Training and Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate clinical doctorate level (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) (including 2yrs pre-clinical masters/diploma level training) in psycho-analytic psychotherapy, accredited by the ACP
- Evidence of further specialist training and/or supervised experience in treatment techniques or areas of clinical need, and knowledge of management or research, e.g. parent/infant work, brief psychotherapy, work with looked after children and their carers, work with adopted children and their adoptive parents, work with children with disabilities, consultation, supervision or research
- Registered with the ACP and eligible for registration with the BPC and/or the PSA (previously CHRE)
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individual child/adolescent and their families
- Knowledge and experience of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents, their carers and professional networks
- Awareness of current relevant legislation and National Service Frameworks and their implications for clinical practice
- Awareness of Child Protection Procedures
- IT Skills
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of service quality monitoring (eg clinical audit, evaluation research etc.
- implications for clinical practice ? Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYPIAPT
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).
