Job summary
Employer heading
Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
If you are a dynamic and creative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist who is looking to develop professionally, and who has a passion for working with children, young people and families in community CAMHS in innovative ways, this is a great opportunity for you. You will join the North Camden Community Team (NCCT) and it’s well-established Child Psychotherapy Discipline known for the high quality child psychotherapy they offer to the diverse population of Camden, and it’s long-standing tradition of Under Fives work with infants, children and their families.
You will join a large number of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists in the Trust and help to support the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Doctorate Training who are placed in NCCT. You will be supported by experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists in NCCT and will have opportunities to develop and deliver innovative and evidence-based Child Psychotherapy in line with the needs of the service.
Candidates who are due to qualify in the summer may apply.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of the team’s various duty rotas, and this will include responding to urgent queries and offering urgent assessments. The post holder will be supervised by a senior Child Psychotherapist and join a growing team discipline and large Trust wide psychotherapy group.
This post will provide you scope for you to offer supervision, consultation and training, alongside clinical work including outreach community work, generic CAMHS assessment and brief treatment, child psychotherapy assessment and treatment (including work with pre latency children and their families).
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a prominent mental health trust which combines patient services, research and consultancy with a national remit for delivering mental health-related education and training.
We are a multi-disciplinary team staffed by highly experienced clinicians and part of a large and vibrant child and family department. We are proud to offer a dynamic, innovative and needs-led service. We have a varied caseload of clients from diverse backgrounds, ranging from those presenting with a high level of complexity and risk to those who require preventative interventions. We work closely with the multi-agency networks and offer CAMHS input in schools. We strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart.
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
- Registration with ACP as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience working with client population (0- 18s)
- A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery.
- Clinical experience of assessing mental health and wellbeing needs of clients
- Experience of managing clinical complexity and high-risk patients.
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with schools.
- Some experience of supervising junior colleagues.
- 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
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
- Keyboard / IMT skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sean Junor-Sheppard
- Job title
- Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8938 2232
- Additional information
Charlotte Cavanagh
Clinical Team Manager of North Camden Community CAMHS / Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Tel: 0208 938 2232
Email: [email protected].
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