Job summary
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 8a - 1wte Permanent - Bury CAMHS (preceptorship opportunity)
The postholder will work alongside colleagues and provide training, consultation, supervision and specialist intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma informed practice across the large multi-agency network of mixed professionals and supporting healthy relationships within our Bury families.
The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment. S/he will provide assessment and treatment of children and young people and their carers grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi-agency training of relevant professionals across Bury. The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues.
Main duties of the job
1. Development and delivery of a specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context.
2. To provide specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and young people who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties and to make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
3. To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention and management from the point of referral, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
4. To develop specialist provision for the parents and/or carers of children and young people using a psychoanalytic psychotherapy framework.
5. To provide specialist expertise in psychoanalytic principles and techniques through advice and consultation to other members of the CAMHS service and colleagues within the multi-agency network.
6. Post-holder will be expected to hold and work their own caseload within the context of the CAMHS service.
7. To contribute to the provision of appropriate information, advice, support, consultation to a range of professionals, and families.
8. To actively participate in team meetings, referral meetings, CPD and business meetings.
About us
You will be supported to achieve success by a highly motivated local across system leadership team who are committed to embedding a thriving culture within Bury. You will be a key member of the Bury CAMHS management team, receive excellent supervisory support both through clinical and managerial and we will work with you to support your development. We know that the support and development of our staff is fundamental in ensuring that those that need our services get the best possible experience.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with patient groups presenting high levels of complexity, young children, adolescents and families.
* Experience in psychotherapy assessment and therapeutic work with young children and their families/parents/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
* Experience of consulting with other professionals in Health, Education, Social Services and Local Authority.
* Experience of representing clinical child psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
Desirable
* Experience of working in CAMHS and/or with children and adolescents, prior to training as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist.
* Experience of Audit.
* Experience of research.
* Experience of work or contact with adult mental health services.
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and adolescents.
* Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of child and adolescent psychotherapy, including highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytical theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics.
* Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with infant and young children, particularly in relation to the statutory framework around child protection.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Skills in the use of psychoanalytical methods of assessment, intervention and management in work with children, adolescents and families.
* Skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others, especially with regard to highly complex families.
* Evidence of a capacity to work collaboratively and flexibly in a multi-disciplinary team context.
* Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicity from one's own.
* Demonstrate sensitivity in all contact with disadvantaged groups.
* High level of ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to children, parents and carers and a wide range of professionals.
* Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse and communicate in situations in which there may be barriers to the acceptance of communications.
* Good organisational skills.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by ACP.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
* Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Employer details
Employer name
Pennine Care NHS FT
Address
Fairfield General Hospital
Rochdale Old Road
Bury
BL9 7TD
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