Lead Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Enfield CAMHS
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.
About us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth 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.
Job 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 clients 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
* 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).
* Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
* Accredited supervisor training
Skills
* 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
* 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
* 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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