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Psychotherapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum including HCAS |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Cwmni: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7835481/Band7Psychotherapist |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the SAFE Adolescent Team. SAFE is a supportive specialist multi-disciplinary team, within Enfield CAMHS. The team has a strong tradition of child and adolescent psychotherapy work. We encourage applications from motivated and resourceful psychotherapists with a passion for adolescent work as part of a team.
SAFE provides rapid, community-based interventions for 13-18 year olds and their families, in response to a crisis, or when there are complex difficulties, such as emerging psychosis.
The post holder will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, brief and longer term.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical:
• To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs.
• To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE multidisciplinary team.
• To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
• To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and ACP policy, under the supervision of the SAFE Lead Child Psychotherapist, and in collaboration with the Enfield CAMHS Lead Child Psychotherapist, the senior clinicians within SAFE and the SAFE Team Manager
• To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of young people and their families’ 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.
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
• 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
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.
The post holder will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment, brief and longer term.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical:
• To provide a Child and Adolescent psychotherapy service to young people and their families referred to the Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE), offering highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment to young people with a wide range of presentations and complex needs. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a few provisional hypotheses.
• To practice using a time sensitive model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy therapy in accordance with relevant evidence base and Trust guidelines
• To provide parent/carer work in support of young people in psychotherapy
• To help in planning, Organising and running applied psychotherapeutic activities such as psychotherapy groups for adolescents or for parents/carers, short or longer term
• To participate in research, CPD and learning activities within the SAFE Child Psychotherapy team and in the wider SAFE multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be able to also develop and pursue their specific areas of interest or service development and research projects, where appropriate, and join our ongoing psychotherapy research and continued professional development work that is running at SAFE.
• To offer specialist generic assessments and treatment for young people and their families/carers referred to SAFE, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care
• To provide Child Psychotherapy assessments and State of Mind assessments
• To liaise with other health, social care, education and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies in the care provided to patients.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and their families and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To offer advice and consultation from a psychodynamic perspective on clients' psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services, Local Authority Social Care and the Education setting.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and ACP policy, under the supervision of the SAFE Lead Child Psychotherapist, and in collaboration with the Enfield CAMHS Lead Child Psychotherapist, the senior clinicians within SAFE and the SAFE Team Manager
• To be informed by evidence-based practice and participate in audit, policy and service developments and research within the area served by Enfield CAMHS.
• To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of young people and their families’ 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.
• To provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues and trainees, if appropriate, dependent on experience.
• To participate in the care provision, assessment and planning of young people presenting in crisis as part of the Crisis pathway
• To be up to date with both de-escalation, physical breakaway and PMVA techniques appropriate to service guidelines and policies.
Communication
• To communicate complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with children, young people and their families/carers who may be hostile or highly emotional, requiring the highest level of communication skills.
• To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
• To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team at SAFE, providing a psychoanalytic lens to assessment and treatment options, as discussed in Team meetings.
• To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service users.
• To communicate effectively with service users and parents/carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• To anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve it, as needed.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026