Job overview

The Generic Team provides a comprehensive range of assessment and therapeutic interventions, and consultation to professionals dealing with children, young people and families with emotional and behavioural difficulties, as well as providing assessment and treatment for neurodevelopmental conditions. 

The post-holder will provide assessments and deliver specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment including Short Term Psychotherapy (STPP) and parent work, alongside more generic clinical work for a broad range of mental health conditions for children and young people (up to 18yrs) meeting specialist CAMHS criteria. The role is mainly clinic-based and will focus on the delivery of timely, high quality therapeutic interventions. 

Enfield Generic and NDS Team is a warm and welcoming multidisciplinary team and there are ample opportunities for continued professional development as well as options for co-working with colleagues from within the child psychotherapy team and from other disciplines.

You would be joining a lively and supportive team of Child Psychotherapists based in the Generic CAMHS service at Bay Tree House. We have a large child psychotherapy team working across different teams in Enfield CAMHS (Generic, SCAN, Adolescent Crisis Team and 0-5 team). 

Main duties of the job

• To provide a child & adolescent psychotherapy service to children, young people and their parents/carers referred to the Service, offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs. To provide parent/carer work in support of children and young people in psychotherapy

·       To carry out specialist generic assessments and treatment for children, young people and their families/carers referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including detailed developmental histories, individual assessment sessions, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care 

·       To formulate and where appropriate implement plans for the therapeutic treatment and/or management of clients’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and to practice within the context of evidence-based approaches and the overall therapeutic approach/ philosophy of the service.

·       To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based interventions for children, young people, their parents/carers and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon recognised explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses

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:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4.  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.