East Sussex Looked After Children's Mental Health Service (LACMHS) Band 8a Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist The East Sussex LACMHS team are excited to be able to advertise this post for an enthusiastic and innovative Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join us in delivering and developing psychotherapy across our care pathways. The committed multidisciplinary teams based within East Sussex working with children up to18 and their carers with the full range of presenting mental health difficulties and include child psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists and social workers. The team hosts trainee child psychotherapists and anticipates that this role will include the service supervision of one or more trainees, alongside providing individual or group supervision to other qualified CAPT's. There is a hope to extend the service to host assistant psychotherapists in the future. The post holder will be responsible for receiving and assessing internal referrals for consultation and specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy in LACMHS, and for providing treatment for some of the most complex children and young people. Child psychotherapists have a dedicated role in offering STPP as a core treatment for adolescents experiencing depression, in working with children who are suffering cPTSD consequent on early life trauma, and in engaging and assessing high risk treatment resistant young people. Initial assessments, brief work, work with parents, group work and consultation to networks of professionals are also offered by the child psychotherapy, alongside traditional longer term interventions with individual children and young people. SPFT welcomes innovation and creativity in a context of high quality governance and finite resources, so that there will be opportunity for group initiatives, research and care pathway development commensurate with the successful applicant’s interests, skills and experience. We are a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England and are looking for people to help us provide high quality services for the patients, carers and local communities that we serve. We want patients and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated. You can help us to do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment to Sussex Partnership. What colleagues say about working for SPFT as a child psychotherapist … …. a team of stimulating, supportive, warm, reflexive practitioners that appreciate psychoanalytic thinking … … SPFT is a really friendly working environment, colleagues are welcoming, down-to-earth and dedicated … … lovely supportive team; lots of opportunity for creativity and innovation with young people from a diverse range of backgrounds … … I really enjoy being able to work with such interesting children and young people - families who wouldn't access this kind of work anywhere else … For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Groark Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: claire.groarkspft.nhs.uk This post is for 1.0WTE with East Sussex LACMHS For further information regarding this post please contact Claire Groark, Clinical lead: claire.groarkspft.nhs.uk or Linda Winchester Lead for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: linda.winchesterspft.nhs.uk