Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
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 work with children up to 18 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.
Main duties of the job
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 opportunities for group initiatives, research, and care pathway development commensurate with the successful applicant's interests, skills, and experience.
About us
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 organization 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.
Job responsibilities
You will be accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists and have at least 2 years' post-qualifying experience. The successful psychotherapist will be fully supported by our 'New to CAMHS training', local leadership, and our team of child and adolescent psychotherapists. We value and protect our time to think together, to share learning experiences, theoretical practice, and work together on new models of care and development. Clinical Supervision is currently provided by the Lead of Child Psychotherapy.
Person Specification
* Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
* Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
* Extensive experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* A high level of competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
* Substantial experience in mental health gained during and/or after child psychotherapy training.
* Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organizational context.
* Experience of delivering group interventions.
* Experience of representing psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organizational context.
* Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Well-developed skills in 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 the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
Qualifications
* Recognized postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
* Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Experience
* Extensive experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment) maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* A high level of competence in applying child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
* Substantial experience in mental health gained during and/or after child psychotherapy training.
* Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organizational context.
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.
£50,952 to £57,349 a year / pro rata for part-time
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