Consultant Psychotherapist and Lead for Psychotherapy

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Consultant Psychotherapist and Lead for Psychotherapy

This is an exciting opportunity to join Psychological and Mental Health Services (PAMHS) at Great Ormond Street Hospital. PAMHS is a large, multidiscipinary service providing both paediatric psychology services to GOSH and specialist CAMHS services nationally. The successful postholder will join the team on a permanent contract as a ConsultantPsychotherapist and lead for Psychotherapy within the Trust. The post holder will provide the strategic and clinical oversight of psychotherapy, managing a small team of Psychotherapists within the Trust. Clinical input will be into the Mildred Creak Unit, where the postholder will be a member of the senior management team. and will lead Pain andrehabilitation Services (0.6 sessions) - approximately 4 WTE staff members. The postholder will work closely with other Consultant leads across PAMHS to lead the effective provision of services.

For discussion, please contact Dr Helen Griffiths, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Psychological Services: helen.griffiths@gosh.nhs.uk and/or Dr Sacha Evans, ConsultantChild and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Mildred Creak Unit Lead: sacha.evans@gosh.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

To provide, on behalf of the Head of Psychological Services, strategic thinking, planning and coordination of an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy assessment and treatment service, working collaboratively within a highly specialist clinical in-patient service (MCU) for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families, including second opinions on diagnosis/formulation.
  • To promote an understanding of child and adolescent psychotherapy and therapeutic psychoanalytic thinking within the multidisciplinary team of MCU and other specialist teams within PAMHS and across GOSH.
  • To provide a Child and Adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy consultation resource for teams, within the time available. To contribute to areas where psychotherapy may be of wider utilisation across PAMHS and the Trust e.g. reflective space provision To provide highly specialist supervision, consultation, teaching, training for multi[1]disciplinary staff within the Mildred Creak Unit.
  • To ensure that effective systems are in place for the supervision, teaching, consultation, support and clinical governance of individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy work undertaken within the MCU and across PAMHS.

About us

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women's staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust's mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

GOSH Culture and Values

Essential

  • GOSH Always Values

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

Essential

  • Appropriate UK-recognised qualification in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
  • Registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant clinical experience working as a child and adolescent psychotherapist
  • Experience working in an inpatient setting, providing both clinical input, contributing to MDT
  • Experience working in a managerial and supervisory capacity
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.

Desirable

  • Experience of strategic leadership including pan-Trust activity

Skills/Abilities

Essential

  • Must be able to provide effective clinical leadership
  • Must be able to plan for delivery of a specialist service, both short/medium and long term
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
  • Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in the context of significant barriers to acceptance, hostility, antagonism or highly emotive atmosphere. Communicating at times highly complex condition related information to patients

Desirable

  • Experience and enthusiasm for audit, research and clinical outcomes

Employer details

Employer name

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street

London

WC1N 3JH

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