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Job overview

My job makes better lives by providing appropriate interventions for families so they receive a timely and effective service, delivered in respectful and safe environments and deploying leadership skills to facilitate service development and driving change to the benefit of children and young people.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ACP registered child and adolescent psychotherapist to join an established team of child and adolescent psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists in training in the trust.

It would suit a colleague who is keen to develop their leadership role while retaining opportunities to deliver clinical work.  The CYPS component of the post is sited within the community team in Northeast Hampshire and would provide a service for families in the area. 

Main duties of the job

• To provide CYPS Community Team NEH with a high quality, specialist evidence-based psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to children, young people and their families and professional networks.
• To case hold and provide generic work identifying the most appropriate intervention for a child or young person.
• To provide highly specialist child assessment and therapy to children/adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems and their families.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnosis and treatment to NHS colleagues and external agencies.
• To work autonomously within the Association for Child Psychotherapy and Trust guidelines.
• To provide supervision to CYPS professionals including trainees, where appropriate.
• To develop audit and research activities and to propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
• All post holders working will be expected to uphold the Trust’s vision and values.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer. 

We look forward to receiving your application!