# Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/2024f36c-a3af-4ed1-ad26-5f5e1f5c59fd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/2024f36c-a3af-4ed1-ad26-5f5e1f5c59fd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pro rota per annum incl. HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (to be mutually agreed) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T14:42:33.647Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Lodon/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Child_Adolescent_Psychotherapy/Child_Adolescent_Psychotherapy-v8049765 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8049765?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview To provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. Providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers. The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people who are looked after. They will contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations. ### Main duties of the job - Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. - Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people. - Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. - Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources - Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings - Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need - Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group ## Job Details To provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. Providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers. The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people who are looked after. They will contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations. ## Job Description Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people. Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care. Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care. ## Responsibilities Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting - Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice. **Desirable** - Ability to teach and train others and present the work of child psychotherapists within public, professional and academic settings ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting - Experience of working with a wide variety children, adolescents across the whole age range (0-18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity **Desirable** - Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers. - Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management. - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies - Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor - Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system **Desirable** - Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups - Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; – post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence **Desirable** - Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [k&c further information pack (pdf, 714.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10350278) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10345317) - [accommodation information for new starters (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2438) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.