Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Enfield CAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
The post currently lies within the Enfield Service Line of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust:- Enfield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Community CAMHS).
This role is a job share and responsibilities of the role will be shared between both clinicians in role.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide specialist assessments, within the discipline, of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and 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 evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.
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
1. To provide specialist assessments, within the discipline, of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and 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 evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent
- Psychotherapists,( ACP), including specifically models of Child Development, Early Attachment psychometric and neuropsychology
- Full membership of the ACP and PSA (Professional Standards Authority).
Desirable criteria
- Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
- Accredited supervisor training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (at Band 8A level) in community CAMHS settings.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families/carers presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan.
- Well developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. knowledge of research design and methodology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of other highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the psychological therapies fields
Experience
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychologically based assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Nnubia
- Job title
- Interim Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For more information, please contact the Clinical Leads [email protected] or [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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