Parent Infant Psychotherapist

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	21 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	£55,690.00 i £62,682.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£55690.00 - £62682.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	04 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Dewsbury, WF13 4AD
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9378-CK2270

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For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. Child Adolescent Psycotherapist The post holder will provide a comprehensive and specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for children and adolescents, their parents/carers and families, who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems. She/he will provide specialist supervision, consultation, teaching and training within the service and to staff of related agencies (social services, health, education, voluntary sector, etc.) including second opinions, reflecting his or her experience and post qualification professional development. She/he will work autonomously within professional guidelines and will contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, development and implementation of the overall framework of the Trusts policies and procedures. She/he will contribute to audit procedures, policy and service development and research. The post holder will function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will contribute to and support, as appropriate depending on experience and level of professional development, to the training activity of the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Trust staff. This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments. JOB DIMENSIONS The post holder will undertake responsibility for clinical supervision, individual and group, for service clinicians and where appropriate assistant child and adolescent psychotherapists. She/he may undertake line management and supervisory responsibility for a child and adolescent psychotherapy clinical trainee. The post holder will have responsibility for maintaining adequate stock of essential materials for use in treatment. If the service has an on call rota the post holder will participate in this. To provide specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children/adolescents and their parents who may be experiencing severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems. To make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family. To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention and management from the point of referral. To provide specialist short-term psychotherapeutic treatment for highly disturbed children, adolescents, their parents/carers and families, who may be vulnerable, have mental health problems, be highly dysfunctional and have complex and persistent problems. To provide specialist brief interventions in particular, parent-infant psychotherapy. To provide specialist long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for clients with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems. To be responsible for working within the appropriate Child Protection and Deliberate Self Harm guidelines in relation to own cases. This includes reporting to and liaising with multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. Social Services staff, CAMHS colleagues, adult mental health staff, primary health and hospital staff, education staff, the service Consultant Psychiatrist, named child protection worker). To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions. To provide specialist assessment reports for social services, courts and solicitors as required. To contribute directly to the service provision for Deliberate Self Harm presentations. To contribute as an independent clinician to a multidisciplinary team. Including generic CAMHS assessments and joint/co-working. To participate in regular review and on-going discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and to provide specialist expertise in psychoanalytic techniques. To provide comprehensive clinical, consultive, supervisory and teaching service as required internally or on an outreach basis. To co-ordinate and organise, where appropriate, network meetings with professional members of other agencies. To be responsible for the application of a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time, (e.g. developments in psychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, neuroscience, attachment theory and adult psycho-pathology). To participate in the evaluation of clinical work and to contribute to the development of best evidence based practice based evidence within the service. To provide autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. To take part in the induction of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Training. To assist in the management of the workloads of assistant and trainee child and adolescent psychotherapists within the framework of the teams policies and procedures. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant and trainee child and adolescent psychotherapists. Clinical Psychologist This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments. JOB PURPOSE: The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention. Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures. Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service. JOB DIMENSIONS: To offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of service users. To provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate. KEY RESULT AREAS: Clinical To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family and/or carers. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence based practice across a full range of care settings. To establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes. To work jointly with other team members and professionals in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to service users and, where appropriate, their families/carers. To follow appropriate local Safeguarding Adults and Children policies in all clinical work, including close liaison with all relevant agencies. To provide specialist risk assessment of, and intervention to, service users who may present in local acute settings in line with agreed procedures To liaise and consult with the wider professional network in the care of service users, offering consultation and supervision where necessary. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychological interventions and to autonomously manage a caseload of clients. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, the settings in which they present, and agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being. 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