Child and Adolescent psychotherapist – under 5s team | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £59,490 - £66,239 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Barnet, EN5 3DJ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7288261/455-NLFT-0197 |
Summary
We are looking to recruit an innovative energetic child psychotherapist to our growing under 5’s provision. The postholder will be part of newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies:
To provide BEH 0-5 CAMHS with a high-quality evidence based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers, and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS
colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the
overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
· To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their family’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
· To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations adjusting and refining them, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
· To be responsible, in consultation with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service Lead, for implementing a range of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams.
· To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
· To provide specialist advice from Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models/attachment-based models, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
· To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a therapeutically based framework for understanding the care needs of children and their families from a Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic perspective, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory and specifically from the perspective of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals regarding risk assessment and management.
· To act as care coordinator, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
· To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with children and thei
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025