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    Child Psychotherapist - London, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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    An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the Generic Community CAMHS service in Enfield.

    This is a full-time post but we are also open to applications for part time working.

    The community CAMHS team is a friendly and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established psychotherapy discipline.

    We are looking for a highly skilled Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity and risk, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of conditions including neurodevelopmental concerns.

    The postholder will join a lively and supportive team of Child Psychotherapists. Weekly child psychotherapy meetings, MDT Team meetings and BEH-trust wide CPD opportunities will contribute to professional development.

    We aim to support individuals to develop specialist skills and pursue specific areas of interest, training or service development projects, where appropriate.


    The post holder will provide psychotherapy assessments and specialist psychotherapy treatment including Short Term Psychotherapy (STPP) and parent work, alongside briefer models of generic clinical work.

    There would be opportunities to provide supervision to other child psychotherapists within the Service and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team where appropriate.

    As part of the Generic team we also have opportunities to work with children under 5 and their parents/carers and our 0-5 Team is currently developing and expanding.

    Childcare Scheme Discounts - High Street and Online Employee Assistance Programme Occupational Health and other health and wellbeing services Financial Wellbeing Fast Track to Physiotherapy Flexible Working and Salary Sacrifice Schemes.

    We are also committed to Continuous Staff Development (CPD) through regular supervision and appraisal.

    The post holder will be an experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist with experience of working with children and adolescents and their parents.

    They will provide both direct and indirect care, working with colleagues within the multidisciplinary team.

    They will have knowledge / expertise of assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and adolescents with Mental Health issues and neurodevelopment disorders.

    This position provides opportunities to work with and develop links with health and social care as part of the THRIVE Framework to delivery of care for young people.

    Post-graduate doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP),
    Experience/Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
    Additional therapeutic training
    Specialist training in supervision

    Well-developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive
    Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

    Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.

    Skills in building positive working relationships with local colleagues and professionals from outside agencies and contributing towards a supportive and containing team culture
    Skills in developing for presentations in public, professional and academic settings, using complex multi-media materials.
    Good computer/IT skills

    Well-developed knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. Looked After and Adopted Children, Depressed Adolescents, children and young people with severe and enduring mental health issues, children with neurodevelopmental disorders and /behavioural difficulties)
    Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes

    Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the ACP or other relevant professional body
    At least two years post qualification experience working as a Child and Adolescent
    Psychotherapist in a CAMHS setting, as a part of a multi-disciplinary team

    Experience of providing psychoanalytic therapies to, young people and their families with a wide range of mental health problems.

    Experience of working with children, young people and their families/carers presenting with the full range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.

    Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan
    Experience of clinical risk assessment and management.
    Up to date Knowledge of legislation in relation to children, young people, safeguarding and mental health
    Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues.
    Experience of using an electronic clinical records system

    Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and their families across the full range of care settings (including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings).

    Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts
    Experience of providing supervision to qualified child psychotherapists or trainees, or other members of the MDT
    Knowledge of the theory and practice of other highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
    Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
    Experience of providing time-limited / brief psychotherapy
    Personal Qualities
    Ability to travel in the community to various sites
    Owner of a vehicle for the purpose of travelling between community sites, holding business insurance cover

    Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
    Bay Tree House,


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