Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist inHarrow inHarrow PUBLISHED 15 AUG 2024

Job Overview


The role involves a creative and passionate approach to service development, and offers the opportunity of being part of a pioneering initiative. We are looking for clinicians with sound understanding of infant mental health, and who are open to growing and developing in this field. As this is a brand-new service, we are looking forward to growing and developing together with you.

We are advertising a 0.8 (4 days/week) band 7 post for the Borough of Harrow. The post holder will be based within Harrow CAMHS team and in one of the local Children’s Centres.

Main duties of the job

The service aims to provide an accessible, destigmatising, culturally sensitive infant/young child mental health perspective through:

• consultation to parents and professionals
• specialist assessment
• 6 session brief work with Under 5s and their families, using evidence-based treatment
• interagency partnership working
• teaching and training in infant mental health and early attachment.
  
  

Working for our organisation


Values


Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 4administrators to act in a way which shows they understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with patients, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.

We expect you to show
COMPASSION
, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to
RESPECT
everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to
EMPOWER
others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in
PARTNERSHIP
and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

We expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.


Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities


The post-holder will be a qualified Child Psychotherapist, fully registered member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients allocated to them within the context of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team.

They will be directly involved in delivering therapeutic interventions to parents and their children under 5 as part of a CAMHS Under 5s Service, especially focused on brief parent-child psychotherapy. This may also include brief parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term generic CAMHS input, video work (e.g. video interactive guidance) brief specialist infant mental health psychotherapy, consultation, offering teaching and training and joint working with multiagency colleagues. They will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.

Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

• Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school; – post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings
  
  

Experience


Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety child, adolescents across the whole age range (0-18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers
• Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings