The post currently lies within the Enfield Service Line of the North London Foundation 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.
Ready to lead and inspire? Apply now and be a part of our journey in transforming mental health care for young people in Enfield.
Are you an experienced and passionate Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist looking for a leadership opportunity? Join our well-established and talented Enfield CAMHS team, co-leading alongside our existing Lead Psychotherapist.
This part-time (2 days/week) role has been created as part of our commitment to enhancing our psychological therapies offer. You’ll work within a rich multidisciplinary team (MDT) of skilled professionals dedicated to providing outstanding care for children, young people, and families.
Your expertise will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering high-quality therapeutic interventions, supporting the team’s development, and ensuring excellent service delivery.
What We Offer:
A collaborative, supportive, and innovative working environment
Opportunities for professional development and leadership growth
A chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people in Enfield
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.
1. To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources including psychological, 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.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Jan 2025