Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
1 month ago
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Psychological Medicine Service at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a senior child and adolescent psychotherapist and discipline lead for child and adolescent psychotherapy. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a team of senior clinicians and contributing to the overall management of the service.
About the RoleThe post holder will be responsible for providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to children and adolescents, as well as their parents and carers. They will also be responsible for facilitating multi-professional service development and change management, as well as teaching, training, and clinical supervision in a multidisciplinary team context.
Main Duties- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to children and adolescents, as well as their parents and carers.
- Lead a team of senior clinicians and contribute to the overall management of the service.
- Facilitate multi-professional service development and change management.
- Teach, train, and provide clinical supervision in a multidisciplinary team context.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 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. 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.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Person SpecificationThe successful candidate will have a Doctorate level training and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ACP accredited only), as well as training in supervision of Child Psychotherapists. They will also have extensive knowledge of relevant legislation regarding children and young people, as well as a high level of knowledge, expertise, competence, and skill in current models and methods of practice of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, including short-term models of intervention.
The ideal candidate will have substantial experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a senior role, with the capacity to demonstrate an understanding of the tasks and competencies involved in leading a team of senior clinicians. They will also have experience of working with a wide variety of child and adolescents and their parents/carers across the whole age range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively with colleagues and patients, and will have strong IT skills, including word processing, use of email, internet, and database management. They will also have management skills, including the ability to ensure the safe running of a team, including job planning, appraisal support, and regular supervision.
The post holder will be expected to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion at all times within the workplace, and will be familiar with, and adhere to, Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
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