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Job Title

Child Psychotherapist

About the Job

We are seeking a highly skilled Child Psychotherapist to join our team at Brent CAMHS. The ideal candidate will have experience in providing specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and treatments for children and adolescents, as well as working with parents and carers.

The successful candidate will be able to engage hard-to-reach adolescents in psychodynamic psychotherapy, both brief and long-term. They will also be able to supervise clinical work within a multidisciplinary team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers.
• To formulate and devise psychotherapeutic treatment and management plans for referred clients.
• To provide highly specialist intervention with adolescent patients, particularly those who self-harm.
• To develop a service offering brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children and adolescents.
• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.