Specialist Clinician - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them.

If you are a dynamic, and creative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who holds ACP registration and is looking to develop professionally, and who has a passion for working with children, young people and families in innovative ways, this is a great opportunity for you. We have 1 WTE B7 Child Psychotherapist post based across two Camden Community Teams, 0.5 WTE in North Camden CAMHS (based at the Tavistock clinic) and 0.5 WTE in South Camden CAMHS (based at Ampthill Square clinic).

Main duties of the job

• This post will provide you scope to offer supervision, consultation and training, alongside clinical work including outreach community work, work in schools and initial CAMHS assessments and brief treatment, child psychotherapy assessments and treatment (including work with pre latency children and their families).
• You will be part of the team’s various duty rotas which will include responding to urgent queries and offering urgent assessments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners.
• Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example to GPs/Schools/Local Authorities.
• Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities.
• To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol.
• To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient’s psycho-social difficulties.
• Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with the patient/service user to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• Liaise with referral agencies and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases.
• To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex condition related information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users/patients under their care.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users/patients.
• To maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies as required.
• To keep up-to-date with knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
• Contribute to recruitment and supervision of less experienced staff.
• Provide cover for any relevant rota (duty/on-call/clinical).
• Demonstrate a personal duty of care for equipment & resources.
• Involvement in small project work and other research projects including new Service initiatives in discussion with team lead/manager.
• Contribute to financial initiatives and cost and quality improvement initiatives for the Service.
• Train less experienced team members and those new to Service in own area of work.

Person specification

• Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level.
• Registration with the ACP as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.
• Further training related to mental health interventions with 0-18s.

Experience

• Evidence of clinical experience of working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
• A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery.
• Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders.
• Expertise of managing and treating the client group 0-18s.
• Some experience of clinical supervision.
• Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement.
• Some experience of working with schools or community based clinical work.

Skills

• High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management.
• Ability to manage own clinical case load.
• Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning.
• Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.