Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Psychological Services at UCLH in the psychotherapy team.

The Psychotherapy team provides a range of assessments and psychotherapy interventions, including longer term and shorter term, treatment to children and young people (including young adults) within a variety of paediatric services. In addition to direct therapeutic work, which may include individual, small group and parent work, the post holder will be available to consult to staff about children and young people and be available to staff for support.

In addition to the wide range of clinical work, the post holder will also participate in audit and contribute to policy and service development and research within the area served by Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine The post holder will be a member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy team at in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine based in UCLH, where the specialist CAMHS service also includes Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists.

Regular clinical supervision will be provided by the Head of Child Psychotherapy. In addition, there are weekly Psychotherapy Discipline Meetings, which includes group supervision from a senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Continuing Professional Development events. The post holder will also be expected to represent child psychotherapy in other MDT forums across a variety of services.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

**UCLH**:
The department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine within the Division of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine deliver a broad range of child and adolescent mental health provision across the whole of UCLH. With our colleagues from psychiatry, psychology, social work, paediatrics and nursing the child psychotherapy team have roles within Paediatric liaison services, the feeding clinic, Turner clinic, inpatient assessment, and general paediatric outpatient clinics. There is also a busy multi-disciplinary Psych-oncology team based at the Macmillan Cancer Centre. Child psychotherapists additionally provide input in a broad range of adolescent services including the TRACCS service; a national service for children and young people with complex medical needs, including chronic fatigue and other medically unexplained symptoms. Our outpatient clinics are commissioned by NHS Camden and provide mental health assessment and treatment for local children and young people with complex health issues. With both a local and national remit our patients come from a broad demographic. Child Psychotherapy has a central role in the supervision and support of colleagues in many specialist fields including play specialists, clinical nurse specialists (CNS), junior Drs, and colleagues working in emergency medicine. The MDT’s within the division are multi-professional and include paediatricians, nurses, dieticians, social workers and play specialists.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England - for the second year running : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England - for the second year in a row.

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