Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

4 weeks ago


Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team as a member of our community team. The successful candidate will have ACP registration and provide highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy.

As a Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, the post comes with the possibility of becoming a Service Supervisor to training child and adolescent psychotherapists, as arranged and agreed with the Consultant Lead Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.

The Trust has supported the CPD of senior child psychotherapists by funding attendance at Service Supervisor trainings offered by the Tavistock and IPCAPA.

  • Responsible for a substantial caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work and to identify priorities of action in complex circumstances, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including provision of a specific model of evidence-based Psychotherapy intervention across the CAMHS clinics.
  • Provide supervision as agreed with Consultant Lead Child Psychotherapist.

What we can offer you:

  • Coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity.
  • Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers.
  • Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included.
  • Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing.
  • Gym discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission. Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

Job Responsibilities
  • Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties.
  • Maintain close working relationships with child therapy colleagues and other Psychological therapists both locally and CAMHS-wide.
  • Work autonomously within professional guidelines and under the supervision of a more senior Child Psychotherapist and take an important role in the provision of specialist Child Psychotherapy services within the clinic.
  • Responsible for assessing and treating children, young people and their families/carers in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems.
  • Maintain adequate clinical notes as well as reports for internal use and external agencies, as well as maintaining good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with young people attending the clinic.
Person Specification
  • Post-graduate clinical doctorate level (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) (including 2yrs pre-clinical masters/diploma level training) in psycho-analytic psychotherapy, accredited by the ACP.
  • Evidence of further specialist training and/or supervised experience in treatment techniques or areas of clinical need, and knowledge of management or research, e.g. parent/infant work, brief psychotherapy, work with looked after children and their carers, work with adopted children and their adoptive parents, work with children with disabilities, consultation, supervision or research.


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