Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy for Children, Young people and Families is a highly valued and protected part of our Psychological Therapies service in Hampshire CAMHS.
We are seeking an experienced, motivated and innovative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our team.
You will be committed to our CAPt values and core principles in offering and developing psychotherapy within our service. Your unique and specialist skills, training and experience will support specialist assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions within our mental health service, including working with complexity and diversity.
We encourage and provide senior leadership and development opportunities including space to offer supervision, trainee placements, consultation and observed & reflective practice. We welcome flexibility, forward thinking & your presence in working together and supporting team culture and processes.
The successful psychotherapist will be supported by our new to CAMHS training, therapies and CAPt leadership and team. The Trust provides a supervision package combining individual, management and clinical supervision, continuing professional development and regular group psychotherapy meetings.
You will have a core qualification in clinical Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and significant experience in child and adolescent mental health. You will be registered or registerable with ACP.
To work as a senior member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist child psychotherapy service to children, young people, their families, or carers. To deliver, support and develop psychological practice within the team through psychoanalytically informed consultation, supervision, formulation, and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance.
To work with complex presentations suitable for child psychotherapy in the team, utilising a high level of knowledge and experience and adapting approaches as appropriate, with regard to evidence-based practice.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.