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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Greater London
Client: Open Door
Location: Greater London, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
7
Posted:
01.03.2025
Expiry Date:
15.04.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
We are excited to be recruiting a number of full or part-time roles for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (ACP accredited) for our dynamic voluntary sector multi-disciplinary adolescent service where the core profession is psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Open Door's mission is to make talking therapy as accessible as possible to all young people in Haringey who need it.
Interviews will be held: 6th and 11th February.
We are seeking energetic and flexible clinicians to undertake clinical work with 12-24 year olds, parents/carers. This includes brief, medium and long-term psychotherapy with adolescents and young adults.
Applicants must have experience of working with adolescents, parents/carers within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team and be accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists. We will consider those approaching the end of training with relevant experience.
Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is important as we are made stronger by the unique capabilities, qualities and experience that each staff member brings to Open Door. We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of all kinds, including global majority and/or neurodivergent psychotherapists.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide an efficient, effective and highly specialist adolescent assessment and treatment service for young people, parents or carers.
2. To make complex clinical judgements and decisions, with the assistance of colleagues and managers, about risk factors and to ensure that links are established with other agencies, particularly those in the statutory sector.
3. To participate in multi-agency meetings including Child Protection Conferences, Child in Need, Team around the Family, EHCP meetings and annual reviews.
4. To participate in and contribute to the development of Open Door's programmes of audit, evaluation and research.
5. To work autonomously within the overall policy and governance framework set out by Open Door.
6. To provide support for colleagues in team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.
7. To provide consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist settings, when opportunities arise.
About us
Open Door is an NCL ICB commissioned voluntary sector service based in Haringey, North London, providing a range of therapeutic services for young people aged 12-24 and parents/carers. We form part of the Haringey CAMHS pathway for 12-18-year-olds and are a highly regarded clinical service.
Open Door offers treatment to adolescents and young adults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. While psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy remains our lead and core profession, we also offer CBT, dramatherapy, therapeutic football groups and EMDR. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for our service users and staff.
Qualifications
Essential
1. To have successfully completed, or approaching the end of, a post-graduate training in Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
2. To maintain eligibility for registration as a full member of the ACP.
Desirable
1. Training in other therapeutic modalities.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
1. Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and clinical knowledge and experience.
2. Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations.
3. Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities.
4. Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload.
5. Good literary and report writing skills.
Desirable
1. Practical Computer Skills.
2. Research skills.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
1. Self-motivated and reliable.
2. Ability to work as part of a team.
3. Good interpersonal skills.
4. Curiosity and trustworthiness.
Experience
Essential
1. Experience working as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service.
2. Experience in the process of assessment of risk and clinical need.
3. Experience of time-limited and longer-term clinical work.
Desirable
1. Experience of working with neurodivergent service users.
Additional Requirements
Essential
1. Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession.
2. Evidence of continuing professional development.
3. Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms.
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