Job summary
- Main area
- Primary
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 285-6283-CYPF
- Employer
- Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Elms Health Centre
- Town
- Halesowen
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is growing and changing. We provide specialist mental health, learning disability and community services across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton, and we’re hiring people who want to shape what comes next.
Formed on 1 April 2020 through the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, we’re now focused on the future with a new Trust Strategy and our Best for the Black Country programme.
What we do
· Adult and older adult mental health
· Children and young people’s mental health
· Specialist learning disability services
· Community healthcare for children, young people and families in Dudley
Why join now
· We’ve got real momentum right now. New strategy, clear priorities and our Best for the Black Country work mean things are moving in the right way, fast.
· Our values aren’t just posters. People are genuinely compassionate, take responsibility, treat you with respect and help you feel confident and empowered.
· You’ll be looked after. Flexible working, family-friendly policies, supportive teams, proper wellbeing support and chances to learn with coaching and development.
· There’s room to grow. Loads of services to explore and real space to try ideas and be heard.
· It’s a good place to live. Friendly diverse communities, easy transport, good schools and colleges, shopping, food, lots to do, plenty of green space and a lower cost of living than many other city regions.
What it’s like to work here
You’ll join friendly, skilled teams who look out for each other. We plan together, share caseload pressures, and celebrate wins. New starters get a warm welcome and clear induction; early careers colleagues have preceptorship and buddying; experienced staff can lead, teach and innovate. You’ll have space to do good work, speak up, and see the difference you make.
Who we are
We’re 4,000+ colleagues from many backgrounds, committed to improving health and wellbeing for our communities and for each other. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, please apply. We value potential and transferable experience.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy posts to work within the Dudley CAMHS. We are looking for an ACP registered, qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to delivery psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment. They will be part of a wider psychotherapy team in Dudley.
We are seeking a suitable candidate that is highly motivated and a dynamic individual with a keenness and ability to integrate their current skills and experience and apply them in this context. Important qualities are good communication skills, working co-operatively and thinking creatively
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide specialist support to the CAMHS Children and Young people. They will ensure that the implementation and delivery of service is to a high standard in accordance with the Service Specification. A key part of this is to offer specialist psychoanalytical child psychotherapy assessments, consultations and treatment.
Working for our organisation
We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an organisation that cares for their staff. There are various offers to encourage staff to look after their emotional wellbeing and mental health. There is a monthly CPD training event offered to all CAMHS practitioners and an opportunity to attend case discussions and reflective practice. CPD and training is recognised as an important part of professional development, and this is considered in a yearly Performance Development Conversations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Caseload management of referrals made for therapeutic intervention.
- Provision of specialised psychotherapeutic assessments. To ensure the provision of a highly specialised Children and Young People in CAMHS is being delivered. This includes minimisation of risk of harm across the team, maintaining an overview of the standards of care being delivered and instigating remedial action if necessary and in accordance with current legislation and Trust policy and procedure.
- Provision of expert consultation and supervision for internal staff and external agencies.
- Support for Child Psychotherapy Trainees as appropriate. This will entail liaising with the Training School in collaboration with the Consultant Child Psychotherapist.
- To be responsible for service user engagement and development from their feedback and input.
- To work as part of CAMHS, contributing to all its processes, including PDC’s, Initial Assessments and goal setting/outcomes/evaluation.
- To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local and national policies and legislation, which govern current CAMHS service provision.
- Act as care co-ordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate to the needs of the Children and Young People.
- To develop complex formulations, both in individual practice and when consulted by others, for the psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of a child/young person in care with highly complex emotional problems.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals.
- To be accountable for own professional actions and interpretation of Trust and Professional policies and guidelines.
- To review risk and risk management plans, as part of ongoing assessment for children within CAMHS ensuring that the risk is documented and minimized and appropriately dealt with, in provision of care, and in consideration of those affected by risk, both in and out of hours.
- To continually assess and communicate observations to other professionals and agencies as appropriate and report any circumstances which could place clients in jeopardy/risk or which mitigate against safe standards of practice.
- To participate in the development of CAMHS Service, setting quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Qualification in Child Psychotherapy at an ACP recognised training school.
- • Membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and evidence of continuous professional development as required by the ACP.
- • Experience as a practising child psychotherapist within CAMHS
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive clinical experience as a member of a multi-disciplinary team with a wide range of clients, across the full range of clinical severity and across the whole life course.
- • Extensive experience of short and long term individual psychotherapy with young people requiring a high level of skill as well as work with parents and families and networks, including social workers and teachers.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Highly developed knowledge of theory and technique in psychotherapy with looked after and adopted children.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Mark Edgerton
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01384 324689
- Additional information
Jackie Alexander, Consultant Psychotherapist, or Jen Ng, Senior Specialist Psychotherapist on 01384 324689 Option 2
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