# Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/92c13081-dab7-4505-ab82-95c21957d7ec - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-child-and-adolescent-psychotherapist/92c13081-dab7-4505-ab82-95c21957d7ec.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum Inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent: N/A - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-21T18:01:35.886Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Child_Psychotherapy/Child_Psychotherapy-v8031267 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8031267?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - A minimum of two years’ post-registration experience working as a child psychotherapist in CAMHS - - Experience of working with parents/ carers and their babies psychoanalytically - - Substantial experience of a qualification or substantial experience in delivering evidence-based assessment and treatments children, young people and families with emotional and behavioural problems - - Substantial experience of undertaking CAMHS assessments and formulating a wide range of child mental health presentations in conjunction with the MDT - - Substantial experience of providing Child Psychotherapy assessments - - Substantial experience of providing Child psychotherapy treatments of varying lengths and intensities. - - Substantial theoretical knowledge and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health - - Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation **Desirable** - - Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience - - - Knowledge and experience of working with Child Protection issues and mental health problems - - Experience of consultation to colleagues from other disciplines - - Experience of working with patients where English is not their first language - Under 5s work experience - Leadership experience - - Experience of group work ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - - Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity. - - Knowledge of recent legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children and their families. - - Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding. - - Knowledge of the impact of premature birth and neonatal admission on the infant, parent and early relationships - - Knowledge of newborns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health and perinatal mental health. **Desirable** - - Advanced practical knowledge in area of NNU ### Education/ Qualification/ Training **Essential** - Honours degree - Minimum Masters level in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent. - - Postgraduate Diploma/ MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies or recognised equivalent. - Registered member of ACP - - Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience **Desirable** - - Specialist Parent- Infant Mental Health training - - Perinatal Mental Health training ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [job description and persons specification (pdf, 544.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10318813) ## 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.