Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service Lead
1 week ago
Livewell Southwest CIC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to lead our CAMHS Therapies pathway. As a Clinical Lead, you will be responsible for providing a high-quality specialist psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across CAMHS pathways.
Key Responsibilities- Provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across CAMHS pathways, in line with best, evidence-based practice.
- Holding, managing, and overseeing clinical caseload and exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritizing of own and other team members workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of children, young people, and families.
- Responsible for the oversight and management of the CAMHS psychotherapy waiting list alongside the CAMHS pathway manager, as needed.
- Use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
- Offer supervision to child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychological therapists, trainee psychological therapists, and psychological practitioners, as appropriate.
- Contribute to and take responsibility for local service developments and implement policy changes as the psychotherapy lead.
- Manage an autonomous caseload for children and young people who are experiencing highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties, including exposure to domestic violence and other trauma.
- Provide formal, highly specialist assessments of children and their parents/carers, to inform and assist in planning care pathways, both within the CAMHS and with other agencies, considering relevant evidence bases, research, theory, practice, and highly complex processes that have shaped the child, their parents/carers, and family.
- Provide individual short- and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children, either individually or with their parent/carers, with the focus of the work being based in parent/child relationships.
- Provide highly specialist interventions with parents, who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems, as a counterpart to individual therapy with the child/young person.
- Provide psychoanalytic group work, including providing training to other professionals in psychoanalytic group work practice.
- Participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and, where appropriate, co-ordinate and organize network meetings with professional members of other agencies.
- Be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Provide highly specialist advice, guidance, and consultation to professional colleagues within CAMHS.
- Provide highly specialist advice, guidance, and consultation to external agencies to assist their understanding and analysis of the child/young person and family's complex needs, to assist in developing appropriate care pathways.
- Deliver highly specialist training programs to other professionals, both within CAMHS and to external agencies, on the application of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- Be responsible for a highly specialist training, internally and externally, on a particular area of clinical specialism.
- Participate as required in the Psychotherapy Discipline teaching programs and professional meetings and case discussion.
- Be responsible for contributing to the academic and clinical teaching programs provided by CAMHS.
- Provide highly specialist psychoanalytic supervision to colleagues within CAMHS, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, art therapists, and trainee psychologists.
- Provide supervision, as required by the Clinical Pathway Manager, to the Child Psychotherapists in Training.
- Receive regular clinical and service-related supervision from your clinical supervisor, in accordance with good practice guidelines and the supervision requirement of Livewell Southwest.
- Gain highly specialist experience and training relevant to a specific area of clinical specialism.
- Maintain and develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programs, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Manager.
- Take part in the LWSW annual appraisal and individual performance review program.
- Devise and develop research programs relevant to the treatment methods of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as appropriate, within CAMHS.
- Promote and undertake audit, as appropriate, within the CAMHS Audit Program.
- Participate and lead in the development of specialist services, both within CAMHS and externally, with other agencies.
- Support and enhance the continual quality initiative towards improving services for service users.
- Be responsible for contributing to the development, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service, in conjunction with the Clinical Pathway Manager.
- Ensure an appropriate, safe, clinical environment for children in treatment, including provision of appropriate play materials.
- Be part of a team of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists who provide services to the CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
- Maintain and develop links with other Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in the region.
- Collaborate with colleagues in the multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health services in the planning and provision of services.
- Undertake line management and caseload responsibilities for the team, alongside the Clinical Pathway Manager.
- Liaise and collaborate with colleagues from various professions in health, education, and social services, as well as the voluntary sector.
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