Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent 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
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 permanent, full-time post with well-balanced variety of work. There are 4 days in the clinic at Newham CAMHS (8 sessions) and 1 day in the NNU at Newham University Hospital (2 sessions) which is within walking distance. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential.Additional specialist training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is desirable.
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 PLT meets weekly for clinical and business discussion.
The 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.
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- To provide a high quality evidence-based mental health and a specialist psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service to Ward staff (doctors, nurses and HCAs), the parents/ carers and babies attending the NNU.
- To work closely with the Matron and Consultant Paediatricians in the developing and delivering of the service commissioned in Newham NNU at Newham General Hospital.
- To provide specialist consultation, assessment and treatment for neonates and their parent/ carers.
- To be a member of the multi-disciplinary PLT at Newham CAMHS.
- To be a member of the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) MDT at Newham CAMHS.
- To provide high quality evidence-based mental health and specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic service to children and young people from birth – 18 and their parents / carers, in the E&B and Psychotherapy teams in the clinic.
- 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.
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
- • Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience
- • 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
- • Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation
- • 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.
- • 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.
- • Advanced practical knowledge in area of NNU
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 rated '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.
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