Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to join us at HPFT! We have two positions available, part-time and full-time. You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS team covering the South quadrant of the county. South Herts CAMHS is a welcoming and developing team that prides itself on providing excellent evidence-based interventions. There are two main sites, one in Watford and one in Borehamwood, and the team works as one team across the two sites.
As the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will have ACP registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including contributing to the provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example, Specialist provision of Child Psychotherapy). You will work autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for children, adolescents, and their families, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines, drawing on a wide range of models and techniques, within the context of the principles of CAPA, THRIVE, and CYP-IAPT.
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Main duties of the job
* Formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence, e.g., NICE guidelines.
* Responsible for a substantial caseload of complex assessment, treatment, and consultation work and to identify priorities of action in complex circumstances, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including the provision of a specific model of evidence-based Psychotherapy intervention across the CAMHS clinics.
* Provide supervision as agreed with Consultant Lead Child Psychotherapist. The post-holder will undertake research, audit, and evaluation for service development. All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct, and Equality and Diversity.
What we can offer you:
* Coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity.
* Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers.
* Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included.
* Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates, and our signature craft club - join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing.
* Gym discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
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About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provides health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
* Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. This includes the ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same-sex couples and their families, extended families, and people with mental health difficulties.
* Have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
* Maintain close working relationships with child therapy colleagues and other Psychological therapists both locally and CAMHS-wide.
* Promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the quadrant and build good relationships with clients, their families, carers/other external agencies as required.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and under the supervision of a more senior Child Psychotherapist and take an important role in the provision of specialist Child Psychotherapy services within the clinic.
* Responsible for assessing and treating children, young people, and their families/carers in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological, and behavioural problems.
* Maintain adequate clinical notes as well as reports for internal use and external agencies, as well as maintaining good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with young people attending the clinic.
Please check the job description attached for further information.
The Trust is committed to providing services to both internal and external clients of the highest possible standards, and each employee is required to reflect this in all aspects of their work. The service aims to be non-discriminatory on the grounds of race and gender, and staff are expected to be aware of, and respond to, the different cultures of clients and families using the service.
Person Specification
Training and Experience
* Post-graduate clinical doctorate level (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) (including 2 years pre-clinical masters/diploma level training) in psycho-analytic psychotherapy, accredited by the ACP.
* Evidence of further specialist training and/or supervised experience in treatment techniques or areas of clinical need, and knowledge of management or research, e.g., parent/infant work, brief psychotherapy, work with looked after children and their carers, work with adopted children and their adoptive parents, work with children with disabilities, consultation, supervision, or research.
* Registered with the ACP and eligible for registration with the BPC and/or the PSA (previously CHRE).
Knowledge
* Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individual child/adolescent and their families.
* Knowledge and experience of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents, their carers, and professional networks.
* Awareness of current relevant legislation and National Service Frameworks and their implications for clinical practice.
* Awareness of Child Protection Procedures.
* IT Skills.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of service quality monitoring (e.g., clinical audit, evaluation research, etc.).
* Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYPIAPT.
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.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
£55,877 to £62,626 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Reference number
367-CYP-9070
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