Job overview

Applications are invited for this 1 year Secondment post of Senior (8b) Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join a lively and friendly multi-disciplinary CAMHS Team which provides services in the London Borough of Bexley. Bexley is one of the three boroughs served by Oxleas NHS Trust (also including Bromley and Greenwich). The service is located in a newly 
refurbished building at Park Crescent, Erith DA8 3EE which offers a bright and welcoming space for children, YP, families and staff. Erith lies on the border of London and Kent with good transport links, which  include regular trains from central and Crossrail serving nearby 
Abbey Wood. 

The Bexley CAMHS service has been redesigned according to iThrive principles, and this post will be based in the Getting More Help Quadrant offering the post holder the opportunity to work with a range of young people with complex and enduring mental health problems aged up to 18 years of age. The post is open to Child Psychotherapists with 
substantial post- qualification experience of work in a multidisciplinary context. The Child Psychotherapy discipline is well established and valued across the Trust with a strong clinical presence in most of the different teams across Oxleas and within Bexley CAMHS. 

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will have extensive clinical experience and be able to provide brief, medium and long term treatments (including individual, parent-child, group and parent work) as well as specialist state of mind assessments. They will also support the team in undertaking generic initial assessments and case management work as well as
psychoanalytically informed brief psychological interventions and consultations, where indicated. As an 8b this role will also involved offering supervision to support to Band 8a and Band 7 Child Psychotherapists as well as offering clinical, post-assessment and care planning to clinicians of other disciplines. There will be an opportunity for the post-holder to take on the role of Service Supervision for an ACP accredited trainee in placement. The post will involve a leadership role both within the discipline and the team.

Within the Getting More Help Quadrant the postholder would sit alongside the Consultant (8c) and Head of Child Psychotherapy, another senior (8b) Child Psychotherapist,2 8a’s, 5 band 7’s and 3 trainee child psychotherapists.

The post-holder will have had experience in a leadership role and be able to contribute to the further development and ongoing operational functioning of the service. Regular clinical supervision will be provided to enhance and maintain the post holder’s, clinical, supervisor and leadership skills. There are opportunities within the team and service to lead and engage in innovative work and we are keen to enable clinicians to develop job plans to encourage development of skills and interests. The Child Psychotherapy discipline promotes wider psychoanalytic thinking through a workshop, a monthly psychoanalytic practice forum, a monthly clinical forum and business meeting, termly trustwide away days and an
annual Oxleas Child Psychotherapy conference. We also encourage access to wider CPD opportunities as well as maintaining links with the ACP. For further information please contact Martin Daltrop (Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist) on 0203 260 5200.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care