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Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Job details
Posting date: 06 February 2025
Salary: £51,883.00 to £58,544.00 per year
Additional salary information: £51883.00 - £58544.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 19 February 2025
Location: Erith, DA8 3EE
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9277-25-0180

Summary

Key Task and Responsibilities To provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy assessment and treatment for adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, their carers/parents and families. To provide highly specialist supervision and consultation for multi-disciplinary staff within Bromley CAMHS and to staff of related agencies (health, education, social care, voluntary sector, and youth criminal justice system.) To undertake clinical audit, research and evaluation and to contribute to the development of child psychotherapy as required. To work autonomously within the overall framework of CAMHS and trust policies and procedures. To participate in Directorate wide CPD programme for Child Psychotherapists and attend monthly Child Psychotherapy Directorate meetings. Clinical To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems, who are at risk of requiring Tier 4 in-patient care and to make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence- based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family. To provide highly specialist brief, medium or long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems. Often these are young people who have not responded to other forms of specialist treatment and who, it is recognised, need a more intensive and in-depth therapy to reach their deep-rooted mental health difficulties. To provide in depth risk-assessments of young people who are a risk to themselves and/or others and to be able to formulate short-term crisis planning, (which may involve some outreach working), in order to provide support that will enable the young person to engage with on-going treatment at a later stage, supported by proactive team discussion and support as well as supervision. To provide, as required, highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for adolescents and parents/carers who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems. To contribute, as required, to the process of care planning for young people referred to the Adolescent Team and to manage a complex caseload as care coordinator working within a multi-disciplinary team which includes: psychiatry, psychology, child psychotherapy, nursing, family therapy, social work, and occupational therapy. To monitor clinical progress through regular reviews of psychotherapy treatment. To deliver, as required, highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment for families who are hard to engage and who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems. To provide highly specialist assessment reports for Social Care and Court where appropriate. To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services as required e.g. court assessments, parenting assessments, specialist emotional state and cognitive assessments, specialist group work and assessment of trauma and depression. To participate in regular CPA reviews and on-going discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professionals from other agencies. To be able to engage and work with adolescents while drawing upon a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (.e.g. developments in psychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, attachment theory, neuro-biology, systems theory, adult psychopathology, mentalization-based theory and thinking.) To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. Monitoring and Evaluation of Risk To be responsible for working within the appropriate Safeguarding, Deliberate Self Harm, Substance Misuse guidelines, for own cases and the provision of appropriate advice in supervision and consultation. This includes reporting to and liaising appropriately with the multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. CAMHS colleagues, and those in education, adult mental health and primary health, hospital staff, the Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, the named Safeguarding worker, the Substance Misuse Nurse and Social Care staff). To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions, which may be due to Safeguarding concerns, Deliberate Self Harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance misuse, causing harm to others and disturbance in very young children where parenting issues may constitute a risk to the young person.) Consultation To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues (within CAMHS and related external agencies, e.g. social workers, foster carers, educational staff, Youth Justice Service, the police, the courts and solicitors, and voluntary sector workers in the community) who work with adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems. To provide, as required, highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to adults involved with those young people who are within the Social Care system, e.g. adoptive parents, foster carers, social workers. To contribute directly and indirectly to a specialist psychoanalytically informed understanding to the client group across all settings and including their parents/ carers and families. Research To undertake audits as appropriate within the Specialist CAMHS Service in accordance with clinical governance. To undertake research as appropriate within the service, Directorate and the discipline of Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. To utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other members of the service, Directorate and the Trust and the discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Communication To maintain effective communication with all partner agencies involved in a child/adolescents care, including, as required, Social Care.