Senior Child And Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job summary Child Family Health Devon (CFHD) has developedan innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and is lookingfor enthusiastic individuals to join our dedicated pathways.
Comeand join us in beautiful DevonYou will join a strong, enthusiastic, and supportive group ofprofessionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network, and yourinspiring colleagues.
This brings professional collaboration that will be anasset to your daily work, your development and your support network.In line with transformation, we are excited to be developingour Psychotherapy provision across the county.
We are looking for experienced Child & AdolescentPsychotherapists to join us in seniorroles (8a) in our Mood,Emotions and Relationships pathway, providing mental health provision tochildren and young people across Devon.
We have the following vacancies: 1 WTE inExeter, 1 WTE in Torbay & South Devon, and WTE (30 hours) in North Devon.Preceptorshipopportunity - new/early qualified colleagues could be appointedto these roles at band 7 under a preceptorship to work towards requirements forband 8a, subject to satisfactory completion of preceptorship process.Its an exciting time of change as we develop ourpathways under iThrive and expand our therapeutic offer.
We are committed toproviding high-quality services to improve outcomes for children and youngpeople and are keen to find the right colleagues to join us.
Part-time roles considered.
Main duties of the job As a SeniorChild & Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will be offering high-qualitycomplex assessments and psychotherapy to children, young people and theirfamilies.
You will bring advanced assessment, formulation, therapy andconsultative skills to the pathway as well as applying your specialist thinkingto wider service development contributions.
There will be CPD opportunities to support your development and acommitment to supporting your career progression at this stage in relation toconsolidating your supervisory role and leadership skills as well as furtherexpanding your clinical knowledge and skills.
You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management.You will be supported with a job plan with opportunities to use a breadth ofskills including research and service development.
There is a growing, friendlynetwork of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists working across CFHD with anew Principal CAPT also joining us, bringing increasing opportunities for sharedCPD and professional support.
We are committed to supporting the growth of theprofession and the provision of Trainee placements.
We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds andexperiences, both personal and professional.
About us Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust.
We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.Our children and young people sayWe would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful.
They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable.
It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.
When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Job description Job responsibilities You will be a qualified and experienced Child and AdolescentPsychotherapist ready to move into a Senior role.
You will have a passion forworking with children, young people and families with complex needs.
You willhave the knowledge and skills to undertake complex assessments and deliver skilfulpsychotherapy interventions.
You will have experience in supporting thedevelopment of others through supervision and training and be keen to furtherdevelop this.
You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring toa multi-disciplinary team and consultative work.
You will be committed toservice user participation and collaborative working with children, youngpeople, parents, carers and families.
You will have a good understanding ofsafeguarding across the lifespan.
You will be motivated to further develop yourleadership skills to contribute to quality improvement and service developmentwithin your pathway and the wider service.
Mood, Emotions andRelationships Pathway The appointed Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist will workwithin a strong multi-disciplinary team, providing assessments and therapy tochildren with severe, chronic and enduring mental health concerns such asdepression, anxiety-based disorders and Trauma.
You would be expected to workwith children, young people and families to understand their experiences andpresenting concerns in order to formulate and provide an appropriateevidence-based intervention.
You will work with other agencies as required andbe able to assess and respond to clinical and safeguarding risks as needed.
Youwill contribute to team discussions and complex case consultations, bringingenhanced formulation skills as well as knowledge and experience to support theteam processes, reflections and formulation.As a Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will require ahigh degree of professional autonomy and self-management.
You will provideclinical supervision to Trainee Psychotherapists when possible as well as Band7 colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines where appropriate.
You willuse your clinical leadership, audit and research skill to take a lead in areasof service development to support a culture of Quality improvement.The multi-disciplinary teams include registered Mental HealthPractitioners from a range of backgrounds including Nursing, OccupationalTherapy, Social Work and creative therapies, Child & AdolescentPsychotherapy colleagues, Systemic Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists,CBT Therapists and Psychiatrists.
Person Specification Experience Essential Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with highly complex mental health problems; including risk assessments Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
Qualifications Essential Doctorate Level ACP accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Full member of Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.
Other Essential An Enhanced DBS Check will be required for this role.
Ability to travel across Devon.