Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2124
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Edgware Community Hospital
- Town
- Burnt Oak
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist - Barnet CAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
Barnet CAMHS have a long standing Child Psychotherapy Service across the generic multidisciplinary CAMHS teams and in other smaller more specialist teams. We currently have a vacancy for a permanent 8a Child Psychotherapist(s) and are able to be flexible around the sessions worked from 0.5 wte to full time in either our East or West teams. There are opportunities to develop specialist work alongside generic CAMHS, in our 0-5 team, Neurodevelopmental pathway, and specialist Adolescent service. We have several trainees and are currently part of a Randomised Control Trial with UCL. The role would involve consultation, brief-work, and long-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the children and families referred to this service. You would also be part of a large active Child Psychotherapy Service and be expected to offer supervision to band 7 clinicians and trainees, and be part of developing clinical practice and treatment offers in line with current thinking.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a the child, young person and their families mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the MDT.
3. In consultation with the Senior Management Team, to be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic model driven interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
*** Please find the detailed job description and main responsibilities described in the attached Job Description and Person Specification***
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy to Masters or Doctoral Level. . Membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice Participation in a training course for supervision of CPT trainees. Management training
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Extensive post qualification experience in a CAMHS setting. Experience in supervision Experience of supervising NHS funded CPT trainee Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families. Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychotherapeutic care and treatment, both within qualified care coordinator role and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at both acute and chronic stages. Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families Experience of risk assessment and management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages. Experience in staff supervision Experience of teaching or training Experience of the application of psychotherapeutic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Experience of developing services.
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in using the range of psychotherapeutic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues Knowledge of research methodology consistent with psychotherapeutic practice Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues Knowledge of research methodology consistent with psychotherapeutic practice Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to adults and mental health. Knowledge of current psychological evidence base and best practice in working with adults.
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop psychotherapeutic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions. Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care. Ability to recognise and challenge discrimination of all kinds. Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Evidence of continuing professional development as required by ACP Ability to be part of the recruitment process within the discipline and, on occasion, other areas of the service.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Carter
- Job title
- Lead Psychotherapist - Barnet CAMH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 4500
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