Job summary
- Main area
- Child Psychotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months (N/A)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SS7823980
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham CAMHS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Pro Rata for 6 months
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families for period of 6 months to cover some staff absences.
We are a creative, well-connected and energetic team with a longstanding reputation for child psychotherapy, which is well understood and supported within the broader service. At present we are a large team of 11 members. This includes trainees, ACP members and clinicians with other psychotherapeutic trainings.
This is a temporary 6 -month, full-time post with a well-balanced variety of work. The post holder will be based at Newham CAMHS and be able to offer under 5s brief consultation work, parent-infant work ( if they have relevant experience and/ or training) as well as generic CAMHS assessment work and Psychotherapeutic State of Mind Assessments.
Main duties of the job
This post will be supported within Newham CAMHS for case management and supervision, and by MDT discussion where required.
The post-holder will have clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you may also deliver. Newham CAMHS’s Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.
The Child Psychotherapy Team meets weekly for clinical case discussion and business.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Please note that membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement for this post.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To be a member of the Child Psychotherapy team at Newham CAMHS.
2. To be a member of the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) MDT at Newham CAMHS.
3. To provide high quality evidence-based mental health and specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic service to children and young people from birth (with relevant training/experience) – 18 and their parents / carers, in the E&B and Psychotherapy teams in the clinic.
4. To ensure that interventions are undertaken on the principle of strong, collaborative partnership working between agencies with each agency clear about which aspects of their work provide support, prevention and early intervention.
5. To participate in the clinic Duty Systems, including follow up from emergency presentations at Newham University Hospital.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Honours degree
- Minimum Masters level in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent. •
- Postgraduate Diploma/ MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies or recognised equivalent.
- Registered member of ACP
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of two years’ post-registration experience working as a child psychotherapist in CAMHS
- • Substantial experience of a qualification or substantial experience in delivering evidence-based assessment and treatments children, young people and families with emotional and behavioural problems
- • Substantial experience of undertaking CAMHS assessments and formulating a wide range of child mental health presentations in conjunction with the MDT
- • Substantial experience of providing Child Psychotherapy assessments
- • Substantial experience of providing Child psychotherapy treatments of varying lengths and intensities.
- • Substantial theoretical knowledge and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health
- • Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation
Desirable criteria
- • Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience •
- • Knowledge and experience of working with Child Protection issues and mental health problems
- • Experience of consultation to colleagues from other disciplines
- • Experience of working with patients where English is not their first language
- Under 5s work experience
- Leadership experience
- • Experience of group work
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity.
- • Knowledge of recent legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children and their families.
- • Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
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
- Siobhan Carolin
- Job title
- Lead Parent-Infant Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02084309000
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