Principal Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,387.00 to £80,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70387.00 - £80465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, E9 6ED |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9363-25-0457 |
Summary
Patient Care To work within your professional Code of Conduct. To continually deliver and maintain high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognized best practice. To ensure equality and diversity values underpin your clinical practice. To respond positively to service user and carer feedback about the service. Clinical To provide senior highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and 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 generic EBT pathway assessments and short-term psychotherapeutic treatments where appropriate. To provide psychoanalytically informed clinical supervision, consultation and teaching to Child Psychotherapists, as well as relevant colleagues within the EBT pathway and within the wider CAMHS. To carry out clinical supervision for team members and colleagues and undergo clinical supervision in line with the Trusts Clinical Supervision Policy. To develop the trainee psychotherapy programme where possible To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide advice to other professionals including social workers. To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people on own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions. To undertake urgent mental health assessment as required, including being part of a rota within the service to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic mental health and risk assessment to young people admitted to A&E who have self-harmed/attempted suicide. To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out emergency and urgent assessments To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment reports for other agencies as required. To manage a clinical caseload of complex cases (often with child safeguarding concerns). To provide short term, medium term and long-term psychotherapeutic interventions as necessary. To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within related external agencies who work with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Education, Social Care, Mentors, health visitors, Youth Workers). To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies, including serving as care co-ordinator under the new CPA arrangements.