Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Lead - Haringey, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Haringey, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

CAMHS in Haringey is facing an exciting and significant point in its development as it moves into the newly created BEH CAMHS Division, along with the CAMHS in Barnet and Enfield.

The new division will be working with other agencies to further develop and then implement the iTHRIVE model in its approach to the mental health care of infants, children, young people, and their families across BEH.

This is a needs led approach embracing the development and delivery of high quality evidenced based treatment models and care pathways to help address the needs of children and young people in the respective boroughs, in a responsive and timely manner.

Lead in providing a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS Team.

Providing highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to MDT colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.

Provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees, less experienced psychotherapists and non-psychotherapists. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

To be mindful to the needs of children, young people, families, and individuals from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious, and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues' innovative ways of meeting these needs.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions, including brief and longterm treatments, for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people, and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

BEH-MHT Vision and Values

Our vision

Our vision is embedded within our clinical strategy. We want to help people live, love, do.

Live
A safe and secure place to call home

Love

Rebuilding relationships which may have broken down during a period of illness

Help people to find a meaningful activity that may be getting back into employment or further education

Our values

The Trust's values are:

Compassion
Respect
Being Positive
Working together

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 places 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.

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.