[ref. x0925116] London - Principal Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
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
To lead on the provision of child psychotherapy services within City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS and to provide child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy alongside generic work within the service to young people and their families.
The post holder will take a senior role in line managing and supervising the psychotherapy team and other disciplines and will possibly contribute to reestablishing our psychotherapy trainee programme. This is a community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural Pathway (E&B) offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, specialist CAPT assessments and treatments including STPP and brief psychotherapy work, including group-work and possibly being the City and Hackney Sp CAMHS group offer lead.
The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.The postholder will be in the E&B Team 3 days a week. The post holder will play a direct role in Quality Improvement (QI) and audit projects as necessary.
Main duties of the job- Will provide a senior highly specialist child psychotherapy service to clients of the City and Hackney CAMHS, providing specialist child psychotherapy assessment and treatment including STPP and offering advice and consultation to non-psychotherapist colleagues and to other non-professional carers from a variety of psychoanalytic, childhood psychosocial developmental and mental health perspectives.
- Will offer supervision to both child and adolescent psychotherapists and other disciplines/therapists who require psychodynamic supervision
- Will provide line management to other disciplines
- Will contribute to the development of the psychotherapy trainee programme within the service
- Will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures:
- Will participate in research and audit, and contribute to policy and service development and research.
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
Patient Care- To work within your professional Code of Conduct.
- To continually deliver and maintain high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognized best practice.
- To ensure equality and diversity values underpin your clinical practice.
- To respond positively to service user and carer feedback about the service.
- To provide senior highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.
- To provide generic EBT pathway assessments and short-term psychotherapeutic treatments where appropriate.
- To provide psychoanalytically informed clinical supervision, consultation and teaching to Child Psychotherapists, as well as relevant colleagues within the EBT pathway and within the wider CAMHS. To carry out clinical supervision for team members and colleagues and undergo clinical supervision in line with the Trust’s Clinical Supervision Policy.
- To develop the trainee psychotherapy programme where possible
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide advice to other professionals including social workers. To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people on own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions.
- To undertake urgent mental health assessment as required, including being part of a rota within the service to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic mental health and risk assessment to young people admitted to A&E who have self-harmed/attempted suicide.
- To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out emergency and urgent assessments
- To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment reports for other agencies as required.
- To manage a clinical caseload of complex cases (often with child safeguarding concerns).
- To provide short term, medium term and long-term psychotherapeutic interventions as necessary.
- To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within related external agencies who work with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Education, Social Care, Mentors, health visitors, Youth Workers).
- To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies, including serving as care co-ordinator under the new CPA arrangements.
- To work in collaboration with the lead, manager and others in service development and business planning.
- All staff to have annual appraisals.
- All staff to have regular management and clinical supervision as appropriate to the role, and to ensure it incorporates effective performance management for all staff.
- To regularly promote and monitor use of routine outcome measures in the team.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the Association of Child Psychotherapy and Trust policies and procedures.
- To comply with the Trust’s policies, procedures and guidelines, including those related to Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, Confidentiality of Information, Safe Guarding, Record Keeping, Restriction of Liberty (Control & Restraint) and Diversity.
- To engage children, young people, carers and families in service feedback.
- To maintain records of clinical activity in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and to provide statistical returns and reports are required.
- To participate in Routine Outcomes Measurement, IAPT initiatives, and clinical audit projects in order to monitor, report on and improve the service.
- To adhere to clinical policies in line with Trust and professional guidelines.
- - To maintain confidentiality on all matters relating to the private affairs and treatment of clients, except in cases where the child’s safety and well-being would necessitate the sharing of information.
- To adhere to legal requirements, relevant legislation and local and Trust policy i.e. Patient’s Charter, Health of the Nation, Children’s Act, Mental Health Act and Health & Safety at Work Act etc.
- To deliver effective and safe services which support the key elements of clinical governance.
- To ensure caseloads are efficiently managed to provide best value for money for commissioners.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- A professional qualification in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy recognized by the Association of Child Psychotherapy and with current registration.
- Masters or doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year PGDip in Observational Studies.
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant post qualification experience of working as a child psychotherapist with children and young people with complex mental health problems in CAMHS.
- Experience in working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices.
- Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies/practices relating to Mental Health and Services and understands the Child Protection Policy.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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