This role requires the ability to work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining high clinical standards while addressing the needs of diverse families. The Trust offers a supportive environment with coaching, wellbeing activities, and various employee benefits, emphasizing a commitment to non-discriminatory practices and building strong relationships with clients and professionals across the CAMHS network.
This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to join the us at HPFT! We have two positions available part-time and full-time. You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS team covering the South quadrant of the county. South Herts CAMHS is a welcoming and developing team that prides itself on providing excellent evidence based interventions. There are two main sites, one in Watford and one in Borehamwood, the team work as one team across the two sites.
As the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist you will have ACP registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Child Psychotherapy). You will work autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide psychotherapeutic assessments and interventions for children, adolescents and their families, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines and drawing on a wide range of models and techniques, within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) , THRIVE and CYP-IAPT.
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- Formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence e.g. NICE guidelines.
- Responsible for a substantial caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work and to identify priorities of action in complex circumstances, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including provision of a specific model of evidence-based Psychotherapy intervention across the CAMHS clinics
- Provide supervision as agreed with Consultant Lead Child Psychotherapist. The post-holder will undertake research, audit and evaluation for service development All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
What we can offer you:
- Coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity
- Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike -saving on tax and insurance included
- Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing
- Gym discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
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About us
In- addition to above and not limited by
- Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties
- Have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues
- Maintain close working relationships with child therapy colleagues and other Psychological therapists both locally and CAMHS-wide
- Promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of quadrant and build good relationships with clients, their families, carers / other external agencies as required
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and under the supervision of a more senior Child Psychotherapist and take an important role in the provision of specialist Child Psychotherapy services within the clinic
- Responsible for assessing and treating children, young people and their families/carers in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problem
- Maintain adequate clinical notes as well as reports for internal use and external agencies, as well as maintaining good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with young people attending the clinic
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The Trust is committed to providing services to both internal and external clients of the highest possible standards and each employee is required to reflect this in all aspects of their work. The service aims to be non-discriminatory on the grounds of race and gender, and staff are expected to be aware of, and respond to, the different cultures of clients and families using the service.
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