Lead Child Adolescent Psychotherapist/ Emotional Difficulties Co-lead inWalthamstow inWalthamstow PUBLISHED
FRI 11 OCT 2024
This full-time role, which may accommodate a job share, includes clinical leadership, extensive supervision of staff, and the implementation of evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Key responsibilities will also involve delivering and overseeing various therapeutic approaches, coordinating assessments and treatments, and maintaining systematic outcome measures to evaluate effectiveness. Candidates should be fully registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Waltham Forest Children & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
Come and work for NELFT's Children & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), and be part of one of the UK's most innovative healthcare Trusts
We are looking for an experience post graduate qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body - Association of Child Psychotherapists to join our Waltham Forest CAMHS. The service provides the latest in evidence based NICE recommended psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties.
You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience of working with children, young people and their families with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
The focus of the work is on the provision of specialist psychotherapy assessment and treatment of our complex patients, as well as traumatised younger children in the care system. The post is advertised as full-time but it is possible to request a job share. Please contact Gemma Fitzgerald, Head of Waltham Forest CAMHS, at , or Eve Grainger, CAMHS Professional Lead for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at for more information
The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership, specialist treatment and assessment within their professional expertise in the service. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measures and the extensive clinical supervision and line management of staff.
The successful candidate will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist psychotherapeutic treatments. They will be responsible for all specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise.
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