Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job overview

We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families for period of 6 months to cover some staff absences.

We are a creative, well-connected and energetic team with a longstanding reputation for child psychotherapy, which is well understood and supported within the broader service. At present we are a large team of 11 members. This includes trainees, ACP members and clinicians with other psychotherapeutic trainings.

This is a permanent, full-time post with well-balanced variety of work. There are 4 days in the clinic at Newham CAMHS (8 sessions) and 1 day in the NNU at Newham University Hospital (2 sessions) which is within walking distance. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential. Additional specialist training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is desirable.

Main duties of the job

This post will be supported within Newham CAMHS for case management and supervision, and by MDT discussion where required. The PLT meets weekly for clinical and business discussion.

The CAMHS sessions encompass clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you will also deliver. Newham CAMHS’s Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.

The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high quality evidence-based mental health and a specialist psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service to Ward staff (doctors, nurses and HCAs), the parents/ carers and babies attending the NNU.
• To work closely with the Matron and Consultant Paediatricians in the developing and delivering of the service commissioned in Newham NNU at Newham General Hospital.
• To provide specialist consultation, assessment and treatment for neonates and their parent/ carers.
• To be a member of the multi-disciplinary PLT at Newham CAMHS.
• To be a member of the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) MDT at Newham CAMHS.
• To provide high quality evidence-based mental health and specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic service to children and young people from birth – 18 and their parents / carers, in the E&B and Psychotherapy teams in the clinic.
• To ensure that interventions are undertaken on the principle of strong, collaborative partnership working between agencies with each agency clear about which aspects of their work provide support, prevention and early intervention.