EB Psychotherapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 06 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Dunstable, LU6 3SD |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7388325/363-SSLB7388325 |
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The Dunstable CAMHS Emotional and Behaviour Team is an extremely friendly and professional team forming part of a broader South Bedfordshire CAMHS service. The post-holder will be offering assessments and treatments to young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, involving parent/carers, schools and other agencies as appropriate. We work alongside other CAMHS teams that offer more specialist support, for example for clients in crisis, or those with eating disorders or learning disabilities. We also work closely with our growing local community teams which have staff working in schools, GP practices and Early Help teams. The team is made up of: Management and Administrative staff, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, a Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, CBT Psychotherapists, an Arts Psychotherapist, Systemic Therapists, a Counselor and Mental Health Nurse.
The successful applicant will support clients of the Dunstable CAMHS, providing specialist child psychotherapy assessment and treatment and offering advice and consultation to non-psychotherapist colleagues, families and other agencies from a variety of psychoanalytic, childhood psychosocial developmental and mental health perspectives.
The child psychotherapy discipline undertakes generic specialist CAMHS assessments of clients newly referred into the team as well as supporting internal referrals. The post holder will provide a range of specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy interventions as required (short-term, medium and long-term interventions as well as state of mind assessments and inter-agency consultations).
The post-holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and the ability to work well in a team. You will be supported by clinical supervision with ourSenior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in addition tomonthly management supervision. You will have access to a variety of CPD sessions, and annual performance appraisals. You will also participate in weekly clinical discussions with the teams, and weekly meetings which offer complex case discussions and CPD.
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 is basedclose to the M1 and easily reached by car from North London, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. The clinic also has the added benefit of free parking and all clinicians are supported by very dedicated and efficient administrative staff. Most of the work will be based in the clinic when not remote working, but access to a car is helpful. The Trust has an arrangement for 50% discount on season ticket fares with Thameslink, the rail provider, for its staff. A generous relocation package is available if you need to move to access this job.
We would be happy to consider applicants looking for flexible hours.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:
Hillel Mirvis,Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Dunstable CAMHS, tel 01582 707635 oremail hillel.mirvis@nhs.net
Dr Louise Scrivener, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Team Lead, Dunstable CAMHS, tel 01582 707635 oremaillouise.scrivener1@nhs.net
This advert closes on Friday 5 Sep 2025