Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0197
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Child and Adolescent psychotherapist – under 5s team
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an innovative energetic child psychotherapist to our growing under 5’s provision. The postholder will be part of newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies:
To provide BEH 0-5 CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers, and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS
colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the
overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
Main duties of the job
· To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their family’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
· To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
· To be responsible, in consultation with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service Lead, for implementing a range of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams.
· To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
· To provide specialist advice from Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models/attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
· To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals regarding risk assessment and management.
· To act as care coordinator, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
· To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with children and thei
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Current professional membership/ registration to the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of therapeutic practice
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to ‘approved’ clinical supervisor status
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting.
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Advanced Knowledge of child development particularly in preschool children and the perinatal period.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of research methodology consistent with Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have significant experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, including experience within the designated specialty where the post is located (0-5 CAMHS).
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
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
- Jason Clarke
- Job title
- Team Manager Under 5 service
- Email address
- [email protected]
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