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    Child Psychotherapist - London, United Kingdom - South West London & St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

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    Richmond CAMHS is an established Tier 3/Getting More Help service that supports children, young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

    Our MDT service is made up of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, family therapy, risk management nurses, CBT therapists and child psychotherapy.


    We have a range of Child and Adolescent Mental Health services within the Trust including Mental Health in Schools Teams, an Adolescent Outreach Team, an adolescent unit, Deaf CAMHS services, Learning Disabilities and Youth Offending CAMHS teams as well as a DBT service and a range of eating disorders services.

    As well as regular individual supervision to support your development we offer opportunities for support and training.

    We are currently recruiting for an experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist to work in our Richmond Tier 3 CAMHS services in the London Boroughs of Richmond.

    This is an exciting opportunity for a child and adolescent psychotherapist with experience of working in CAMHS services to work in a supportive and friendly MDT CAMHS team to undertake assessments, and deliver child psychotherapy interventions with children, young people and their families.

    We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.


    We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health.

    The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

    We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together.

    We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.

    More developments are planned across our sites and services.

    We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.


    We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

    Richmond Tier 3 CAMHS is based at Barnes Hospital. We are due to relocate to Livingstone House, 2 Queens Road, Teddington, TW11 0LR.

    To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.

    ~ To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based psychological interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.

    ~ To be responsible for implementing a range of child psychotherapy interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.

    ~ 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 and the family.

    ~ To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans

    ~ To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers

    ~ To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.

    ~ To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.

    ~ To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.

    ~ To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.

    ~ To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.

    ~ Teaching, Training , and Supervision

    ~ The post holder will be expected to undertake teaching, training and supervision in accordance with CAMHS and Eating Disorders service line common expectations for P& P staff and in line with the strategy agreed within the CAMHS Directorate.

    ~ To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a psychotherapist and, where appropriate, other senior colleagues.

    ~ To gain additional experience and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service (as agreed with the responsible professional and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS and Eating Disorders service lines common expectations for P& P staff.

    ~ To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

    ~ If required, to provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

    Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development

    ~ To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services (as directed), through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

    ~ To contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive and flexible to meet the needs of the local population.


    To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

    ~ To contribute to and commit to undertaking an annual professional development review (PADR).

    ~ To undertake personal and professional development as identified in the Personal development Plan (PDP) as required by the service and set out in the job plan.

    ~ To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.

    ~ To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. Current Mental Health Legislation
    Trust, London Borough and panLondon child protection procedures.
    Local and national developments in SWLStG CAMHS
    Risk Assessment and Management
    Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
    oQualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist having successfully completed a training course recognised/accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or equivalent, and registered with ACP
    oEvidence of continuing professional development.
    oPost qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.

    oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
    oFormal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
    oFurther training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

    oConsolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care

    oDemonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a child psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.


    oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
    South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
    294-CAMHS PB-C #J-18808-Ljbffr


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