Job summary
- Main area
- Psychotherapist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-597
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing T3 Neurodevelopmental
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa inclusive of 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
Due to on-going investment, a structure review and subsequent expansion of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Team within West London CAMHS, we are looking for two Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (permanent, total of 1.5WTE – 2.0 WTE, Band 8a) to join our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team at Ealing CAMHS. These sessions are available across three teams: Child and Family team, Neurodevelopmental Team and Eating Disorders team. Both posts can be part time or full time as we are flexible about the number of sessions attached to each team and mostly interested to attract the right candidates according to their skills, experiences and interests.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and innovative clinicians with a broad range of specialist psychotherapeutic and generic experience, who will be able to maintain clinical curiosity and engage in reflective practice as well as be able to be an advocate for children, young people and families’ needs.
We welcome applications from those currently working on a Band 7 level or those already working on a Band 8a but wishing to take on a new challenge. The successful candidate will have excellent opportunities for continuing professional development and will be supported in career progression. They will receive regular supervision from a more senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
Main duties of the job
Highly Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good relevant honours degree, or a recognised equivalent
- Other related professional qualification or equivalent
- Postgraduate accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Eligibility for full membership of Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
Desirable criteria
- Keyboard skills (physical skills)
- Other related academic qualification to Masters or Doctorate level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Pre -qualification professional experience with children, adolescents and families (e.g. clinical/educational psychology, teaching, social work)
- Substantial experience of work with complex family situations where there is a threat of abuse and breakdown
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and across the age range of 0 - 18, including 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 assessment and intervention with individuals with neurodevelopmental difficulties
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Substantial experience in working in multi -disciplinary, multi -agency, multi - cultural context.
Desirable criteria
- Substantial experience of professional teaching and training
- Substantial experience of work with therapeutic groups of children
- Substantial experience of work with families where the parents are mentally ill
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of relevant theories, practices and research in the field of child and adolescent development and psychotherapy and ability to apply them to relevant work situations
- Knowledge of adult mental health problems
- Evidence of continuous professional development as recommended by the ACP
- Specialist areas of knowledge based on further training and experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of research methodology
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with patients, staff, administrators and managers about highly complex and sensitive matters in situation of potential conflict or psychological/emotional pain, and where mental health problems affect relationships
- Capacity to listen to other points of view effectively about highly complex issues through reports, publication or public presentation
- Good level of analytic skills and understanding of unconscious processes and their impact on the AF / I 17 individual, group and institutional processes
- Ability to remain still and maintain intense concentration in clinical settings with children, adolescents, parents/carers and families where there may be high level of distress, verbal and physical aggression or chaotic activity
- Ability to integrate available highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and to apply it in treatment and clinical management
- Ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly
- Writes clear records and observes policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ability to plan and organise own workload and time
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and organise aspects of service activities
- IT and internet research skills
- Ability to conduct audit and research
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to plan, evaluate, monitor and develop services
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be able to contain anxiety without recourse to premature action
- Personal experience of Psychoanalysis
- Has a good judgement about when to act to ensure safety
- Works independently but can involve colleagues appropriately
- Continues to think clearly in situations of high level of emotion and stress
- Can process own emotional reactions as possible information about the patient’s or family’s emotional state
- Contains and works with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others
- Familiar with and works within ACP’s Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics
- Work autonomously within overall framework of policies and procedures
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
- Ivana Ruzic
- Job title
- CAMHs Head of Psychotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02084831961
- Additional information
For more information or an informal chat/visit please contact:
Ivana Ruzic, Head of Child Psychotherapy for CAMHS via[email protected] and 0208 483 1979
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