We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our Generic Team at Bromley CAMHS.
This postholder will be an ACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to work in a community-based service with children, young people, and their families.
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy team in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an established, active, diverse, and creative group that meets regularly, offers opportunities for CPD, holds an annual conference, and welcomes innovative ideas and collaborations.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will join a thriving group of child psychotherapists in Bromley CAMHS and in Oxleas Trust. They will provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive, and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex, and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.
The postholder will provide consultation, teaching, and training to multi-disciplinary staff within the CAMHS team and to staff of related agencies (health, education, social services, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex, and persistent mental health problems, and their carers/parents and families, 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 which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers, and family.
2. To provide highly specialist brief, medium, and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with severe, complex, and persistent mental health problems.
3. To provide in-depth risk assessments of young people who are a risk to themselves and/or others and to be able to formulate short-term crisis planning.
4. To contribute, as required, to the process of care planning for young people referred within the Generic Team and to manage a complex caseload as care coordinator working within a multi-disciplinary team.
5. To monitor clinical progress through regular reviews of psychotherapy treatment.
6. To deliver, as required, highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment for families who are hard to engage and who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems.
7. To provide highly specialist assessment reports for Social Care and Court where appropriate.
8. To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services as required.
9. To participate in regular CPA reviews and ongoing discussions of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
10. To engage and work with children and young people with a range of learning and developmental difficulties.
11. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (doctorate), complete/due to complete
* Registration with relevant professional body
Experience
* CAMHS experience
* Experience of working with children across the age range
CPD
* Appropriate CPD/additional training
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
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We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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