• Job Description

  Req#: C9363-25-0457?language=en&page=1048&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  To lead on the provision of child psychotherapy services within City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS and to provide child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy alongside generic work within the service to young people and their families.

  The post holder will take a senior role in line managing and supervising the psychotherapy team and other disciplines and will possibly contribute to reestablishing our psychotherapy trainee programme. This is a community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural Pathway (E&B) offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, specialist CAPT assessments and treatments including STPP and brief psychotherapy work, including group-work and possibly being the City and Hackney Sp CAMHS group offer lead.

  The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The postholder will be in the E&B Team 3 days a week. The post holder will play a direct role in Quality Improvement (QI) and audit projects as necessary.

  Main duties of the job

  1) Will provide a senior highly specialist child psychotherapy service to clients of the City and Hackney CAMHS, providing specialist child psychotherapy assessment and treatment including STPP and offering advice and consultation to non-psychotherapist colleagues and to other non-professional carers from a variety of psychoanalytic, childhood psychosocial developmental and mental health perspectives.

  2) Will offer supervision to both child and adolescent psychotherapists and other disciplines/therapists who require psychodynamic supervision

  3) Will provide line management to other disciplines

  4) Will contribute to the development of the psychotherapy trainee programme within the service

  5) Will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures:

  6) Will participate in research and audit, and contribute to policy and service development and research.

  About us

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  07 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8b

  Salary

  £70,387 to £80,465 a year PER ANNUM

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  363-SS7113244-A

  Job locations

  City & Hackney CAMHS

  15 Homerton Row

  London

  E9 6ED

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Patient Care

  To work within your professional Code of Conduct.

  To continually deliver and maintain high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognized best practice.

  To ensure equality and diversity values underpin your clinical practice.

  To respond positively to service user and carer feedback about the service.

  Clinical

  To provide senior highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.

  To provide generic EBT pathway assessments and short-term psychotherapeutic treatments where appropriate.

  To provide psychoanalytically informed clinical supervision, consultation and teaching to Child Psychotherapists, as well as relevant colleagues within the EBT pathway and within the wider CAMHS. To carry out clinical supervision for team members and colleagues and undergo clinical supervision in line with the Trusts Clinical Supervision Policy.

  To develop the trainee psychotherapy programme where possible

  To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide advice to other professionals including social workers. To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people on own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions.

  To undertake urgent mental health assessment as required, including being part of a rota within the service to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic mental health and risk assessment to young people admitted to A&E who have self-harmed/attempted suicide.

  To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out emergency and urgent assessments

  To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment reports for other agencies as required.

  To manage a clinical caseload of complex cases (often with child safeguarding concerns).

  To provide short term, medium term and long-term psychotherapeutic interventions as necessary.

  To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within related external agencies who work with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Education, Social Care, Mentors, health visitors, Youth Workers).

  To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies, including serving as care co-ordinator under the new CPA arrangements.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Patient Care

  To work within your professional Code of Conduct.

  To continually deliver and maintain high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognized best practice.

  To ensure equality and diversity values underpin your clinical practice.

  To respond positively to service user and carer feedback about the service.

  Clinical

  To provide senior highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which have shaped the child/adolescent, their parents/carers and family.

  To provide generic EBT pathway assessments and short-term psychotherapeutic treatments where appropriate.

  To provide psychoanalytically informed clinical supervision, consultation and teaching to Child Psychotherapists, as well as relevant colleagues within the EBT pathway and within the wider CAMHS. To carry out clinical supervision for team members and colleagues and undergo clinical supervision in line with the Trusts Clinical Supervision Policy.

  To develop the trainee psychotherapy programme where possible

  To undertake risk assessment and risk management and to provide advice to other professionals including social workers. To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/from young people on own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions.

  To undertake urgent mental health assessment as required, including being part of a rota within the service to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic mental health and risk assessment to young people admitted to A&E who have self-harmed/attempted suicide.

  To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out emergency and urgent assessments

  To provide highly specialist assessment and treatment reports for other agencies as required.

  To manage a clinical caseload of complex cases (often with child safeguarding concerns).

  To provide short term, medium term and long-term psychotherapeutic interventions as necessary.

  To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues within related external agencies who work with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Education, Social Care, Mentors, health visitors, Youth Workers).

  To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies, including serving as care co-ordinator under the new CPA arrangements.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • A professional qualification in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy recognized by the Association of Child Psychotherapy and with current registration.
  • Masters or doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year PGDip in Observational Studies.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant post qualification experience of working as a child psychotherapist with children and young people with complex mental health problems in CAMHS.
  • Experience in working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices.
  • Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies/practices relating to Mental Health and Services and understands the Child Protection Policy.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • A professional qualification in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy recognized by the Association of Child Psychotherapy and with current registration.
  • Masters or doctoral level training in Child Psychotherapy including the completion of a 2 year PGDip in Observational Studies.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant post qualification experience of working as a child psychotherapist with children and young people with complex mental health problems in CAMHS.
  • Experience in working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices.
  • Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies/practices relating to Mental Health and Services and understands the Child Protection Policy.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East London NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  City & Hackney CAMHS

  15 Homerton Row

  London

  E9 6ED

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  East London NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  City & Hackney CAMHS

  15 Homerton Row

  London

  E9 6ED

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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