# Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/6b507365-0daa-4eca-8f16-3be5a0095a30 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/6b507365-0daa-4eca-8f16-3be5a0095a30.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** University College Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Pro rata) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 5 months (Career Break Cover until 05/03/2027) - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T10:03:02.484Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/University_College_London_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/General_Paediatrics/General_Paediatrics-v8342100 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8342100?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uclh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical experience within large multidisciplinary teams, including working with non -mental health professionals. - Have worked intensively and non intensively with individual children, parents and adolescents - Interest in short/medium term work with children, parents and adolescents - Experience of engaging with diverse communities - 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. **Desirable** - Research based clinical work. - Experience in offering supervision or reflective practice ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people and families in highly emotive clinical contexts - Capacity to apply psychoanalytic ideas in a clinically relevant way with teams and with patients. - Adapt the ways of working to help engage young people in creative and accessible ways. **Desirable** - Experience of working with interpreters ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with other agencies, professionals and disciplines - Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity in an applied setting **Desirable** - Assessment and diagnostic skills. - Interest in writing about clinical work ### Specific Requirements **Essential** - 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 **Essential** - Honours Degree - Training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy at ACP recognised training school **Desirable** - Relevant post graduate study/research, e.g. infant observation, child development, clinical work, interest in research/outcome studies ### Personal and People Development **Essential** - Reliable and flexible team member - Able to work independently under regular supervision ### Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion **Essential** - 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 ## Documents - [uclh values (pdf, 919.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2685) - [job description (pdf, 456.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10666371) - [functional requirements (pdf, 262.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10666372) ## 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.