Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist We are seeking an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist totake up the role of Co-Lead Child Psychotherapist for Bromley CAMHS, and Co-PrincipalChild Psychotherapist for the Generic Team, in partnership with an experienced colleaguealready in role. You will jointly lead the provision of an efficient, effective and comprehensivespecialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service for children and adolescents withsevere, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and their carers within theGeneric multidisciplinary team, carrying your own caseload and supporting colleaguesworking across the service in our Adolescent, LAAC and Neurodevelopmental teams. Youwill provide supervision, consultation, teaching and training to psychotherapists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, jointly provide clinical leadership within the Generic Team, and leadon key service initiatives within the service, the discipline, and at Trust level.There is a strong psychotherapy group in Bromley CAMHS, from trainee level through toband 8s, who are valued highly by their multidisciplinary colleagues, and who run a weeklypsychotherapy workshop for colleagues as well as peer supervision spaces. You will alsobe part of a vibrant Oxleas Trust-wide child psychotherapy group who meet regularly forCPD activities and organise an annual public conference.

Main duties of the job The main duties of the role are

• To lead and support the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy discipline within Bromley CAMHS;
• To contribute to leadership within the Generic Team, alongside the Team Manager and Senior Clinical Psychologist, for instance by facilitating team reflective practice, Initial Assessment "Hubs" and some additional team meetings;
• To contribute to the leadership of the service through participation in Management meetings and other senior functions such as clinical triage and the "duty senior" role;
• To support more junior psychotherapists, for instance through supervision, and facilitation of peer supervision and workshop spaces;
• To supervise a child psychotherapist in doctoral training;
• To carry a small caseload of direct psychotherapy cases, whether short-, medium- or longer-term, and parent work cases;
• To contribute to service-development initiatives at the CAMHS and Trust level.

You will be an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with a high level of clinical and interpersonal skill, with experience of supervision of more junior colleagues and/or trainees, or the aptitude and interest to develop such skills further. You will be able to think calmly and creatively under pressure, containing the anxieties of multi-disciplinary colleagues and more junior colleagues, in clinical situations presenting interpersonal and emotional pressure, complexity, safeguarding difficulty or risk.

About us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities To be responsible for working within the appropriate Safe Guarding, Deliberate Self Harm, Substance Misuse guidelines, for own cases and the provision of appropriate advice in supervision and consultation. This includes reporting to and liaising with multi-disciplinary service and external agency staff (e.g. Social Services staff, CAMHS colleagues, adult mental health staff, primary health and hospital staff, education staff, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, named Safe Guarding worker, Substance Misuse Worker). To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to/ from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision/consultation discussions. This may be due to Safe Guarding concerns, Deliberate Self Harm or other risky behaviour (e.g. running away, substance misuse, causing harm to others).

To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment for children/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 highly specialist long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children/adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problem. To provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for carers. Where required, to provide highly specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment for families who may be highly dysfunctional with complex and persistent problems. To provide highly specialist assessment and short term psycho- therapeutic treatment for children, adolescents, their carers and families). To provide highly specialist assessment reports for social services, courts and solicitors as required. To participate and collaborate with other team members to provide specialist clinical services. 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. To be responsible for the application of a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (e.g. developments in psychoanalysis, child and adolescent development, attachment theory, neuro-biology, systems theory, social learning theory, adult psycho-pathology, group work). To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to professional colleagues (within the specialist CAMHS and related external agencies) who work with children/ adolescents with severe and complex mental health problems (e.g. joint consultation to Social workers, link workers, health visitors/community psychiatric nurses and nursery nurses running groups). To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to Parents/ carers involved with children/adolescents who are referred to the service. To provide highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to education staff (e.g. teachers, Educational Psychologists, Special Education Needs Coordinators). To liaise with and provide highly specialist advice and guidance to staff of the Youth Offending Team, police, courts and solicitors as required. To contribute directly and indirectly to a specialist psychoanalytically informed understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group, and their carers.

To contribute towards the bidding of DoH funded Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Training for their four year clinical training programme within the service. To take part in the recruitment and induction of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Training. When required, to liaise and attend meetings with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Trainings relevant Training Schools and relevant members of the North Central London Strategic Health Authority (NCL SHA, the funding body). When required, to provide regular reports about the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Training for the relevant Training Schools and NCL SHA. To provide highly specialist clinical and service supervision for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in Training. To provide highly specialist clinical supervision for junior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. To provide highly specialist clinical supervision for professional trainees of related professions (e.g. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in training). To provide highly specialist clinical supervision for professionally trained members of the service as requested (e.g. junior Specialist Nurses). To provide highly specialist teaching and training for other professions working with the client group within the service and within related agencies (health, education, social services, voluntary sector, youth criminal justice system). To be responsible for contributing to the academic and clinical teaching programmes within the service and the Directorates Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service.

To receive regular clinical and service related supervision from a more senior child and adolescent psychotherapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues, in accordance with good practice guidelines . click apply for full job details