Senior Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Job overview

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Bury CAMHS is a high-performing and dynamic child and adolescent mental health service, working closely with commissioners and with our partners in Children’s Services, education and the VCSE sector to develop models of care within the principles of the i-thrive framework. Our vision is for our local community to be well-equipped to support children and young people, the adults of tomorrow, to grow up with good emotional health and well-being. In addition to the successes of our Early Attachment service, Mental Health Support Team (schools), and innovative #RISE team (emotional well-being service for children and families).

As a borough, we are committed at a commissioning and senior leadership level to continue to build on this experience and we aspire to provide our children and young people in care with high quality, trauma-informed services, including access to assessment and psychological therapies provided in a timely manner.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work alongside colleagues and provide training, consultation, supervision and specialist intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma informed practice across the large multi-agency network of mixed professionals and supporting healthy relationships within our Bury families.

The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment. S/he will provide assessment and treatment of children and young people and their carers grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi-agency training of relevant professionals across Bury. The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapeutic offers are well-integrated and highly valued within the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team locally and across the broader Specialist Services Directorate in Pennine Care. There are currently progressive psychological therapies and research work-streams running across the Directorate. The support, development and well-being of our workforce are the foundations on which we continue to develop services to ensure children and young people receive optimal care. We have strong links with local universities and are active in the Clinical Training Programmes.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and delivery of a specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multiagency context.

They will provide specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children and young people who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties and to make decisions about treatment possibilities.

They will work independently and collaboratively as part of the team to ensure the most appropriate support and intervention to meet the young persons needs is identified and communicated and where appropriate provided in a timely manner.   options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice  and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental