Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £59,490 - £66,239 Pro Rata for part time |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E13 8AL |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7187926/363-SS7187926 |
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We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families, and to further develop a role on the Neonatal Unit (NNU) at Newham University Hospital.
We are a creative, well-connected and energetic team with a longstanding reputation for child psychotherapy, which is well understood and supported within the broader service. At present we are a large team of 11 members. This includes trainees, ACP members and clinicians with other psychotherapeutic trainings.
This is a permanent, 8 session band 8a role comprised of work both in the clinic at Newham CAMHS (6 sessions) and in the NNU at Newham University Hospital (2 sessions) which is within walking distance. You must be available to work on Thursdays. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential. Additional specialist training in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is desirable.
In respect of the role at the NNU, the post holder will sit within the Paediatric Liaison Team (PLT) at Newham CAMHS but will continue to have links with the team of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Newham CAMHS with supervision from the Lead Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapist.
The PLT consists of a mix of disciplines: child and adolescent psychiatry; nursing; family therapy and clinical psychology.
The NNU is a busy level 2 unit. The therapeutic work on the unit will involve supporting parents who have newborn babies who may have been born prematurely and/or at full term, whom require medical and nursing care. The role will also involve regular staff support, consultation and liaison.
This part of the role will receive additional professional support from the London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN) and London Neonatal Psychological Professionals (LNPP) group. Awareness of the impact of premature birth and neonatal admission on the infant, parent and early relationships is essential.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
This post will be supported within Newham CAMHS for case management and supervision, and by MDT discussion where required. The PLT meets weekly for clinical and business discussion.
The 6 CAMHS sessions encompass clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you will also deliver. Newham CAMHS’s Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.
The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.
It is recognised that working therapeutically in a service addressing the psychological and emotional health of infants and parents requires highly specialist skills; the capacity to work with primitive mental processes in both parent and infant is pivotal to the work.
Please note that membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement for this post.
Please attached job description, that gives details related to the duties of the role alongside essential and desirable requirements.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Jun 2025