Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist or

**Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist or Developmental**:
**Band 7/ Band 8a**:
**Main area**
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
- **Grade**
- Band 7/ Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-346-C**Site**
- The Hive, The Kernow Building
- **Town**
- Redruth/Penzance
- **Salary**
- £43,742 - £57,349 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 10/09/2023 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 19/09/2023Thank 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_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _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**:
As a service, we are actively seeking to develop our therapeutic offer for children, young people, and families, and we are keen to grow our Child Psychotherapy team. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about psychoanalytic thinking, clinically curious and motivated to support the development of Child Psychotherapy within Cornwall.

The Postholder will have access to regular supervision and be provided with excellent opportunities for professional development.

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide comprehensive, high-quality, specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy to children and young people with severe and complex mental health difficulties; and to actively support families, parents, and carers. This will include specialist assessments for psychotherapy, State of Mind assessment, STPP and longer-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

An active presence and thoughtful contribution to the life of their core CAMHS teams will be an important part of the Child Psychotherapist’s role. They will attend multi-disciplinary team meetings, provide supervision to colleagues interested in psychoanalytic thinking, and offer opportunities for consultation and complex case discussion.

Cornwall has a strong tradition of providing Child Psychotherapy training places and this role will include opportunities to support trainees and assistants in their development.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during ot