Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- 22.5 hours per week (Part time 3 days (6 sessions per week) must include Thursdays and Fridays)
- Job ref
- 260-TP-638
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Robson House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 pa inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/05/2024
Employer heading
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 12 month Maternity cover for 22.5hrs a week (needs to include Thursdays):
This post is for a Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Whole Family Team (WFT). The WFT is a specialist CAMHS service in the London Borough of Camden which is integrated within children and young people’s services. The WFT specialises in working with families facing complex difficulties, who may be working with several professionals and may struggle to access community services. We provide specialist interventions for families where there are issues related to complex trauma and attachment. In addition to offering direct intervention, the WFT offers a large amount of consultation and risk support (under the thrive model) to other professionals working with children, young people and their families.
This post is specifically to be embedded within Robson House School which is a specialist therapeutic and educational placement for children of primary school age who cannot attend mainstream school because of social, emotional and mental health needs, or who have been permanently excluded from school.
The post holder will hold a complex caseload within the multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a range of clinical assessments and offering highly skilled treatments or therapies that are outcome focused and evidence based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team
including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance,
planning and prioritising these
2. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly
skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
3. Work with team manager on intake and referral coordination
4. Provide consultation to external agencies as required such as GPs/schools/Local authorities
5. Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with
their clinical care
6. Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests
7. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment
questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to
systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team manager
8. Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient’s psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
**Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level/Doctoral level.
- Eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group Some experience of clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
- Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
- Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
- Keyboard / IMT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Subreena Charlemagne-Odle
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07543800383
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