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To provide a high-quality psychotherapy service to children and young people aged 11-16.  Referred with a range of generic issues and mild to moderate mental health problems, working autonomously within professional guidelines; the overall framework of the NHS; team policies and procedures; and the Thrive Framework.

To provide advice and consultation on client’s care to professionals and colleagues including school staff and other referrers.

To manage own clinical caseload within guidelines provided by the team leaders and professional guidelines and ethical frameworks (i.e. BACP/BABCP/NCPS, or equivalent).

To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.

To assess clients presenting with complex personal difficulties including those arising from mild to moderate mental health difficulties, based on accurate understanding and utilising a conceptual framework of the clients’ difficulties. 

To make decisions regarding suitability for therapy, with particular regard to issues of risk, and onward referral to other specialist services.  

To formulate and implement psychotherapy and treatment plans with clients, normally within a brief structured time frame or a contracted number of sessions. 

To exercise sound theoretical knowledge of the processes of therapy,  based on evidence of efficacy, to employ a range of short-term therapy interventions to meet the needs of the referred client.   

To understand and work within Child Protection protocols and guidelines. 

To be able to work with a range of client presentations, including ambivalence and resistance, in order to facilitate clients’ ability to explore a range of life issues which are frequently of a distressing emotional nature.

To provide regular information to referrers, about the treatment process and outcome, initial and ongoing risk assessments, making appropriate disclosure and referral onward where necessary. 

To collaborate, where appropriate, with a range of other professionals involved in clients treatment, ongoing emotional wellbeing and mental health care. 

To provide such information reports as are required in order to facilitate effective communication with referring agencies and commissioners.   

To work in the context of an equal opportunities framework and to promote equality in all areas of work. 

Professional 

To maintain the highest professional standards of practice by undertaking regular external professional supervision and internal peer supervision.

Fully participate in appraisals and personal development review process.  

Ensure professional registration is current. 

To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the team’s operations policies. 

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and responsible exercise of professional self-governance.

To comply with the Trust information governance and record keeping policies and guidelines. 

To continue to develop the skills of a reflexive practitioner by conducting regular personal audit and evaluation of clinical work and by maintaining an active engagement with current development in the field of psychotherapy and related disciplines. 

 To have good keyboard skills and be able to use Microsoft office applications such as Word and Excel. 

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both a specific group and primary care adult mental health services.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal

• CAMHS/YoutherapY Service Manager 
• YoutherapY Team Leader
• YoutherapY Team
• Administration Team
• CAMHS Staff
• CASHER Staff
• MHST Staff
• Families and Integrated Community Care Division staff

External

• Educational Colleagues
• Local Authority
• Clinical Commissioning Groups
• GPs
• Other healthcare and non-healthcare organisations