Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- Psychotherapist 8a Medical
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham CAMHS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Pro Rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/06/2025 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, and to further develop a role on the Neonatal Unit (NNU) at Newham University Hospital.
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 permanent, 8 session band 8a role comprised of work both in the clinic at Newham CAMHS (6 sessions) and in the NNU at Newham University Hospital (2 sessions) which is within walking distance. You must be available to work on Thursdays. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential. Additional specialist training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is desirable.
In respect of the role at the NNU, the post holder will sit within the Paediatric Liaison Team (PLT) at Newham CAMHS but will continue to have links with the team of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Newham CAMHS with supervision from the Lead Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapist.
Main duties of the job
The PLT consists of a mix of disciplines: child and adolescent psychiatry; nursing; family therapy and clinical psychology.
The NNU is a busy level 2 unit. The therapeutic work on the unit will involve supporting parents who have newborn babies who may have been born prematurely and/or at full term, whom require medical and nursing care. The role will also involve regular staff support, consultation and liaison.
This part of the role will receive additional professional support from the London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN) and London Neonatal Psychological Professionals (LNPP) group. Awareness of the impact of premature birth and neonatal admission on the infant, parent and early relationships is essential.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post will be supported within Newham CAMHS for case management and supervision, and by MDT discussion where required. The PLT meets weekly for clinical and business discussion.
The 6 CAMHS sessions encompass 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 will also deliver. Newham CAMHS’s Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.
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.
It is recognised that working therapeutically in a service addressing the psychological and emotional health of infants and parents requires highly specialist skills; the capacity to work with primitive mental processes in both parent and infant is pivotal to the work.
Please note that membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement for this post.
Please attached job description, that gives details related to the duties of the role alongside essential and desirable requirements.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- • Honours degree • Postgraduate Diploma/ MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. • Minimum Masters level in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent. • Registered member of ACP • Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience
Desirable criteria
- • Specialist Parent- Infant Mental Health training • Perinatal Mental Health training
Experience
Essential criteria
- • A minimum of two years’ post-registration experience working as a child psychotherapist in CAMHS • Experience of working with parents/ carers and their babies psychoanalytically • 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 • Knowledge and experience of working with Child Protection issues and mental health problems • Experience of consultation to colleagues from other disciplines • Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation • Experience of working with patients where English is not their first language
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of group work • Leadership experience
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 the impact of premature birth and neonatal admission on the infant, parent and early relationships • Knowledge of newborns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health and perinatal mental health. • Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
Desirable criteria
- • Advanced practical knowledge in area of NNU
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
- Principal Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 4309000
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