Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £53,751.00 to £60,651.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9455-26-0148 |
Summary
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 clients 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.