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PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE USING THE OPEN DOOR
APPLICATION FORM ATTACHED TO THIS ADVERT (to be downloaded and
emailed to recruitment@opendooronline.org)
OR CONTACT US FOR A FULL APPLICATION PACK.
We are excited to be recruiting a number of full or
part-time roles for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (ACP accredited) for
our dynamic voluntary sector multi-disciplinary adolescent service where the
core profession is psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Open Door's mission is to make talking therapy as
accessible as possible to all young people in Haringey who need it.
Interviews will be held: 6th and11th February
We are seeking energetic and flexible clinicians to
undertake clinical work with 12-24 year olds, parents/carers.
This includes brief, medium and long-term psychotherapy with
adolescents and young adults.
Parent work (may include training in/delivering Open Door's
parent work model)
Applicants must have experience of working with adolescents,
parents/carers within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team and be accredited by the
Association of Child Psychotherapists. We will consider those approaching the
end of training with relevant experience.
Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is
important as we are made stronger by the unique capabilities, qualities and
experience that each staff member brings to Open Door. We welcome applications
from candidates with lived experience of all kinds, including global majority
and/or neurodivergent psychotherapists.
Main duties of the job
To provide an efficient,
effective and highly specialist adolescent assessment and treatment service for
young people, parents or carers. Treatment will be provided to some adolescents
with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems.
To make complex clinical
judgements and decisions, with the assistance of colleagues and managers, about
risk factors and to ensure that links are established with other agencies,
particularly those in the statutory sector, to reduce risks and share responsibility
within mental health networks. To participate in multi-agency meetings
including Child Protection Conferences, Child in Need, Team around the Family,
EHCP meetings and annual reviews etc.
To participate in and contribute
to the development of Open Doors programmes of audit, evaluation and research
and support service users to contribute and participate and to ensure CYP-IAPT
compliance.
To work autonomously within the
overall policy and governance framework set out by Open Door.
To provide support for colleagues
in team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.
To provide, when opportunities
arise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist
settings.
About us
Open Door is an NCL ICB commissioned voluntary sector
service based in Haringey, North London, providing a range of therapeutic
services for young people aged 12-24 and parents/carers. We form part of the
Haringey CAMHS pathway for 12-18-year-olds and are a highly regarded clinical
service. Open Door recently received national recognition for our impact, as a
2024 finalist for Health Service Journal (HSJ) Award for Reducing Inequality
and Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People.
Open Door offers treatment to adolescents and young adults
on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. While psychoanalytic Child
Psychotherapy remains our lead and core profession, we also offer CBT, drama
therapy, therapeutic football groups and EMDR. We currently have 11 Child
Psychotherapists and 2 Child Psychotherapy trainees in the team. We are a
highly skilled team and many of our clinicians teach on professional trainings.
Clinical supervision is provided weekly.
Open Door works from bases in Crouch End and Tottenham, and
provides services in local secondary schools and the Haringey Autism Hub. Most
of our work is delivered in person as this is what most young people tell us
they want. Demand for the service is high.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for
our service users and staff. More than half of our young people are from global
majority communities, and approximately 1 in 4 are neurodivergent.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To have successfully completed, or approaching the end of, a post graduate training in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- To maintain eligibility for registration as a full member of the ACP.
Desirable
- Training in other therapeutic modalities.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and clinical knowledge and experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: - overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
- Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, clinical seminar groups, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
- Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
- Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
- Good literary and report writing skills.
- Time management skills.
- Administrative Skills
- Good Liaison Skills
- Excellent general communication skills
- An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.
Desirable
- Practical Computer Skills.
- Research skills
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Adaptable.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Reliable
- Curiosity
- Trustworthy
- Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration.
- Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress.
- Working conditions capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client age group.
- Experience in the process of assessment of risk and clinical need.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Knowledge of other therapeutic modalities.
Desirable
- Experience of working with neurodivergent service users
- Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
- Knowledge of areas of service administration.
- Knowledge of methodology associated with use of outcome measures, service user evaluations.
- Interest and/or experience in service development.
- Knowledge of/ Interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services
- Experience of/ interest in coproduction
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession
- Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text)
- Commitment to inclusion
- Commitment to safeguarding
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To have successfully completed, or approaching the end of, a post graduate training in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- To maintain eligibility for registration as a full member of the ACP.
Desirable
- Training in other therapeutic modalities.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and clinical knowledge and experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: - overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
- Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, clinical seminar groups, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
- Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
- Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
- Good literary and report writing skills.
- Time management skills.
- Administrative Skills
- Good Liaison Skills
- Excellent general communication skills
- An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.
Desirable
- Practical Computer Skills.
- Research skills
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Adaptable.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Reliable
- Curiosity
- Trustworthy
- Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration.
- Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress.
- Working conditions capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client age group.
- Experience in the process of assessment of risk and clinical need.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Knowledge of other therapeutic modalities.
Desirable
- Experience of working with neurodivergent service users
- Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
- Knowledge of areas of service administration.
- Knowledge of methodology associated with use of outcome measures, service user evaluations.
- Interest and/or experience in service development.
- Knowledge of/ Interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services
- Experience of/ interest in coproduction
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession
- Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text)
- Commitment to inclusion
- Commitment to safeguarding
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.
