Child and Adolescent psychotherapist – under 5s team
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,490.00 to £66,239.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59490.00 - £66239.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Barnet, EN5 3DJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9455-25-0319 |
Summary
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