Job overview

This is a fantastic new opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist with a particular passion for work with the Under 5s to join a highly specialist Early Intervention Service for children, young people and their families in the Royal Borough of Greenwich .

The Early Intervention Team provides a thriving multi-disciplinary service offering a range of consultations, assessments & therapeutic treatments in both the community and at the main Greenwich CAMHS clinic. The work will involve a rich mix of both psychotherapy treatments for struggling families of Under Fives and Under Fives consultations, to support organisations to firmly hold the emotional development of infants and children at the heart of their work. You will join a highly experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in the EIT team.  

Although the post will be based in the Early Intervention Team there will be opportunities to work across the service to enrich professional development.

The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an established, active, diverse group that meets regularly, runs a journal club, holds an annual conference and welcomes innovatory ideas and collaborations.

Oxleas Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

Main duties of the job

• To provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children/adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• To provide highly specialist supervision and consultation for multi-disciplinary within the Greenwich CAMHS and to staff of related agencies (health, education, Social Care, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system.)
• To undertake clinical audit, research and evaluation and to contribute to the development of child psychotherapy as required.
• To work autonomously within the overall framework of CAMHS and trust policies and procedures.
• To participate in monthly Child Psychotherapy Directorate meetings, termly seminars and the annual conference.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care