Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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We are seeking to recruit a senior Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who is ACP registered to work in our recently relocated Tier 4 Children's inpatient unit (age up to13).


You will be able to hold and advocate for a developmental understanding of inpatient care for young children and its impact, including how this affects families.


You will be in located in the newly purpose build children's inpatient unit, Sunflower House (previously Dewi Jones Unit) on the main Alder hey hospital site.

The post is 0.5 and there is some flexibility in how this time can be used across the week.


Sunflower House is a Tier 4 children's mental health inpatient service and part of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.


It is commissioned by NHS England to provide specialist assessment, treatment, T4 Consultation and Multi-Disciplinary opinion across Cheshire, Wirral and Merseyside but also accepts from across and outside of England where appropriate/services cannot be provided regionally.

We are an inpatient mental health facility, designed to help children and young people up to the age of 13 years with:

  • A primary diagnosis of mental illness including children with neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD and mild/borderline co-morbid learning difficulties), physical disabilities or those with social care problems as secondary needs.
  • Severe and complex needs that cannot be safely managed within Tier 3 CAMHS
  • Severe and complex needs that cannot be adequately assessed within a Tier 3 environment.

Clinical:


  • To lead and coordinate specialist systemic psychotherapy/family therapy assessments.
  • To formulate and devise intervention plans and provide systemic family therapy interventions using a range of discipline specific models appropriate to the service.
  • At the request of the case manager to join internal and external network meetings to provide a systemic perspective.
  • To continuously evaluate treatment/therapy options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child, young person or family.
  • To contribute to wider multidisciplinary team discussions regarding the relationship between the different systems around the referred child and family and to bring a systemic perspective to links between the patterns that the family engage in and the patterns that may evolve in the wider team.
  • To contribute to multidisciplinary referral and allocation meetings as part of the multidisciplinary team.
  • To maintain an appropriate specialised caseload of systemic family therapy cases/interventions.
  • To provide specialist systemic advice; guidance; information and consultation to enable colleagues in the multidisciplinary team to have access to systemically based frameworks for the understanding and care of cases referred to the service, through the dissemination of research and theory in relation to systemic psychotherapy.
  • To work effectively and sensitively with issues of gender, sexuality, disability, class and age.
  • To attend both internal and external CPA reviews and offer updates on progress in ongoing family therapy and ensure appropriate discharge planning and handover processes are implemented.
  • The post holder is expected to receive regular clinical supervision in line with the guidelines laid down by the Association for Family Therapy (AFT).
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