Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification. Managing Mood, Emotions and Relationships In this pathway, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists work within a strong multi-disciplinary team to deliver evidence-based interventions, advice and support to children, young people and families, along with systems supporting them such as education and social care. Children and Young people in this pathway will be experiencing moderate to severe mental health presentations that require a range of responses from services.

The multi-disciplinary teams are diverse including; Clinical Psychology, Systemic Psychotherapists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, CBT Therapists, Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists and Mental Health Practitioners from a range of backgrounds including Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Creative Therapies. You would have the opportunity to provide consultation, clinical supervision, and training. There are also opportunities for involvement in service development and research as well as activities to support developing leadership skills. The role of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist will be to provide individual psychotherapy work, parent work, assessment, supervision, consultation with the team, and contribution to the overall CAMHS service offer and development.

To work closely and in liaison with other agencies who support children, young people, and families/carers who have been referred with mental health needs. Within this role the post holder will: Contribute to the multi-professional team to provide comprehensive specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessments and treatment for children/adolescents with moderate to severe, complex, and persistent mental health problems. Have outstanding communication skills and the ability to engage with children/young people and their families/carers as well as a range of professionals. Undertake specialist assessments, manage risks and hold a complex caseload collaboratively using a goals-based approach and routine outcome measures to inform practice Using a strengths-based approach, ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and Routine Outcome Measures.

Provide supervision and support to other clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs. Work effectively with operational, professional and clinical leadership colleagues to support clinicians in devising and implementing evidence-based care to suit the individual needs of parents/carers and infants. Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in a range of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of others To promote and support participation of service users across the service