Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist - Edgware, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Edgware, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

To provide Barnet CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.

This includes all clinical presentations in the generic CAMHS service.

To provide generic assessment and treatment of Children and Young People entering the Barnet CAMHs service.

To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS

colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation to other clinicians in the service.

The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence based care pathways.

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people.

Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions.

We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.

Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide generic mental health and specialist Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures and rating scales, as well as direct and indirect clinical observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of children, young people and their families with mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To be responsible, in consultation with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service Lead, for implementing a range of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models of interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams.

To provide assessment and discharge care planning to children and young people who present for assessment in the acute NHS hospital, as part of a local protocol and rota.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide specialist advice from Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children, young people and their families from a Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals regarding risk assessment and management.

To act as care coordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.

To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manne