Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

**Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist**:
**Band 8a**:
**Main area**
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
- **Grade**
- Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-934-C**Site**
- The Hive, The Kernow Building
- **Town**
- Redruth/Penzance
- **Salary**
- £48,526 - £54,619 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 01/02/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. 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. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:

- Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Foundation Trust is_ seeking an ACP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Band 8a), for CAMHS West Locality (Penzance and Redruth)._
- We are seeking an individual passionate about psychoanalytic thinking and motivated to use their skills in supporting children, young people, and families, as well as colleagues within the CAMHS community. We are looking for a broad range of experiences and a capacity to deliver highly skilled, multi-layered assessments and intervention; for an individual who listens to the voice of the child and advocates for them._
- The successful applicant will provide a range of specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy interventions, including Short Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP), medium and long-term interventions, State of Mind Assessments, specialist observations, parent work, and inter-agency consultation. There may be potential to offer more intensive work (twice or thrice weekly sessions) where clinical need arises._
- An outward looking countenance, active presence and thoughtful contribution to the life of the locality team will be an important part of this role. The successful applicant will support the work of the team through assessment, care co-ordination and duty rota. They will attend their locality Multi-disciplinary Team meetings and provide supervision to colleagues interested in psychoanalytic thinking._

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide a highly specialised Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy service to children, adolescents, and their families with complex psychological problems, both directly and through advice and consultation to other professionals, whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines and to the relevant policies and procedures. The role will involve both direct psychotherapeutic work and indirect specialist support to the team, overall CAMHS service and other agencies. Supervision and support of the assessment and psychotherapy provided by other Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment, including Trainee and Assistant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists is part of the role.

The post holder will be expected to work with complex psychological problems and distress and provide highly specialist indi