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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Clinical experience within large multidisciplinary teams, including working with non -mental health professionals.
- Experience
Have worked intensively and non intensively with individual children, parents and adolescents
- Experience
Interest in short/medium term work with children, parents and adolescents
- Experience
Experience of engaging with diverse communities
- Experience
Have clinical experience working in an acute medical setting, or very closely related area of work with children and young people with complex physical illness and disabilities.
- Communication Skills
Capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people and families in highly emotive clinical contexts
- Communication Skills
Capacity to apply psychoanalytic ideas in a clinically relevant way with teams and with patients.
- Communication Skills
Adapt the ways of working to help engage young people in creative and accessible ways.
- Skills and Abilities
Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with other agencies, professionals and disciplines
- Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity in an applied setting
- Specific Requirements
The post holder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of this post, this will be determined through occupational health with any reasonable aids provided wherever possible.
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Honours Degree
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy at ACP recognised training school
- Personal and People Development
Reliable and flexible team member
- Personal and People Development
Able to work independently under regular supervision
- Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Research based clinical work.
- Experience
Experience in offering supervision or reflective practice
- Communication Skills
Experience of working with interpreters
- Skills and Abilities
Assessment and diagnostic skills.
- Skills and Abilities
Interest in writing about clinical work
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Relevant post graduate study/research, e.g. infant observation, child development, clinical work, interest in research/outcome studies
Job overview
We are looking for a compassionate and skilled band 7 ACP registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our large and supportive Child Psychotherapy team at UCLH.
Due to the very short-term nature of this post we are looking for a candidate with previous experience of working in an acute hospital setting, or a setting very closely related to this work.
This is varied and meaningful therapeutic work with patients from infancy to young adulthood (0-24) who are under medical care here as both outpatients and inpatients. You will bring a flexible and creative approach to working therapeutically with babies, children, adolescents, families and the complex medical teams around them. A strong ability to work well within multi-professional teams and with children and families in highly distressing and uncertain situations is essential.
We are looking for somebody who can hold the experience and needs of the child/young person at the centre of clinical decision making while working across complex systems. A clinician who can hold a psychoanalytic framework alongside a genuine interest in multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the links between the body and the mind (including where there is trauma and/or neurodivergence) and with a commitment to their own ongoing learning and development. You will be able to communicate clearly and sensitively with a range of professionals and patients
Main duties of the job
We are a team of 6 ACP Child Psychotherapists and 3 ACP trainees. We sit within the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychological Medicine at
UCLH, made up of psychiatry, clinical psychologists and mental health nurses. The team is well-established, and the work of child psychotherapy is valued and widely understood amongst our medical colleagues. There is a strong tradition of multi-professional working and close collaboration with medical colleagues to work towards sensitive and holistic ways of supporting patients with complex, chronic and life limiting medical conditions.
The Paediatric and Adolescent Division is large and busy. It includes secondary care paediatric clinics for our local communities; and several tertiary specialties including specialist services for children and young people with cancer; and a specialist service for complex adolescent health conditions (TRACCS).
You will provide specialist assessments, liaison work, short term and longer-term psychotherapy to children and young people receiving outpatient and inpatient medical care. You will also support the treatment of children and young people through offering consultations and reflective practice where appropriate to medical teams. While members of the psychotherapy team are closely linked to specific MDTs and clinical specialties, we also ensure that all members have a varied caseload from across the department.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
This will be a fixed term post to cover a planned career break of an existing member of the team until 5th March 2027.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Applicant requirements
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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This advert is for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Pro rata). The contract type is Fixed term: 5 months (Career Break Cover until 05/03/2027). The application deadline is 19 Oct 2026.
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