Job summary
- Main area
- Psychotherapy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (working days will be either Monday to Wednesday, or Wednesday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 342-CAMHS133-1025
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barton Hill Settlement
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a CAMHS Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist - Bristol
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a child and adolescent psychotherapist that has a passion for working with children and young people their families and careers?
Due to the current post holder relocating, an opportunity has arisen in CAMHS, for a band 8a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our specialist multi-disciplinary team. AWP CAMHS has a well-developed and highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapy service including Professional Lead who is committed to ensuring all psychotherapists have excellent CPD opportunities and supervision and reflective space.
Main duties of the job
You will have relevant core professional qualification and professional body registration. You will be based at Barton Hill Settlement.
You will provide a psychotherapy assessment and treatment service and other forms of assessment and treatment in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary team. This will involve complex assessment of family situations, including high risk (e.g. deliberate self-harm) and recommendations for appropriate treatment interventions from the range of options available. This work will take place in specialist community CAMHS clinics.
Ensure that appropriate liaison with other professionals and outside agencies in relation to cases of a more complex nature is undertaken.
Contribute to the general clinical work of the multi-disciplinary team.
To contribute and be part of CAPA (choice and Partnership) appointment system.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families and carers based on psycho-analytic principles and techniques.
The post holder will be expected to provide child psychotherapeutic input into the multi-disciplinary team and to offer consultation, supervision and teaching to professional colleagues to the applicant’s level of experience.
Depending on experience the post holder will be expected to contribute to the broad range of clinical work undertaken by the team. In addition they will have the opportunity and encouragement to develop specialist skills in a particular area, in line with priorities agreed with the team.
The post holder would be expected to have an interest in brief psychotherapeutic interventions as well as longer term work. This work may take place across a variety of settings
Please refer to the Job Description for more details which includes the Person Specification for this role
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Honours degree, or a recognised equivalent.
- Postgraduate accredited training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy. (Doctoral Equivalent).
- Eligibility for full membership of Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
Desirable criteria
- Previous professional qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of relevant theories, practices and research in the field of infant, child and adolescent development and psychotherapy, and ability to apply them to relevant work situations.
- Experience of offering complex Mental Health assessment and treatment
- Capacity to listen to other points of view and be alert to conscious and unconscious communication
- Has a good judgement about when to act to ensure safety. Ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively about highly complex and sensitive issues
Desirable criteria
- Previous work experience in relevant area
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becky Davies
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 340 8600
- Additional information
If you wish to discuss with out Professional Lead for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, please contact Caroline Church:
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