Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
A Vacancy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Lead
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Psychological Medicine Service at UCLH as discipline lead for child and adolescent psychotherapy and in a senior leadership role in the service.
Children and Young people’s Psychological Medicine sit within a large and busy paediatric and adolescent division at UCLH where mental health support and guidance is offered as part of the medical treatments children and young people receive for short- and longer-term health conditions.
The Psychotherapy team provides a range of assessments and psychotherapy interventions, including longer term and shorter term, treatment to children and young people (including young adults) within a variety of settings, including adolescent medicine, cancer and general paediatrics.In addition to direct therapeutic work, the post holder will contribute to the overall management of the service, supervise the child psychotherapists and other junior clinicians as well as deliver reflective practice to several staff groups across the trust.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
This is a senior role that is highly valued by the services across the division.
The post holder will contribute to wider service development as well as the smooth delivery of complex mental health services. This will include audit and research within the area served by Psychological Medicine.
The post holder will coordinate the referrals in and out of the psychotherapy team and support the organisational needs of the team including job planning and service delivery.
Regular clinical supervision will be provided by an external senior clinician.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly.Further information can be found at https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
UCLH:The department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine within the Division of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine deliver a broad range of child and adolescent mental health provision across the whole of UCLH. With our colleagues from psychiatry, psychology, social work, paediatrics and nursing the child psychotherapy team have roles within Paediatric liaison services, the feeding clinic, Turner clinic, inpatient assessment, and general paediatric outpatient clinics.
There is also a busy multi-disciplinary Psych-oncology team based at the Macmillan Cancer Centre. Child psychotherapists additionally provide input in a broad range of adolescent services including the TRACCS service; a national service for children and young people with complex medical needs, including chronic fatigue and other medically unexplained symptoms.
Our outpatient clinics are commissioned by NHS Camden and provide mental health assessment and treatment for local children and young people with complex health issues. With both a local and national remit our patients come from a broad demographic.
Child Psychotherapy has a central role in the supervision and support of colleagues in many specialist fields including play specialists, clinical nurse specialists (CNS), junior Drs, and colleagues working in emergency medicine. The MDT’s within the division are multi-professional and include paediatricians, nurses, dieticians, social workers and play specialists.
Come and bea part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second yearrunning!University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Oct 2024