Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Generic CAMHS support children / young people and their families where there is concern about emotional or behavioural difficulties. Assessment and therapy can be provided to children, young people, and families, where appropriate CAMHS clinicians consult with other professionals.

As a Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in our multi-disciplinary team, you will be assessing young people, delivering evidence-based therapeutic support, and contributing to the overall development and provision of the service. The service is based at Bay Tree House, Enfield, EN2 6NZ. However, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts interests, including travelling to appropriate meetings, outside of the borough, as required.

Clinical appointments are provided at both the service base and in local special schools and other multi-agency settings. Joint working, consultation and liaison with other professionals, services and agencies are a regular feature of the work within a CAMHS setting.

Main duties of the job

Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, when and where appropriate.

Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

Evaluation and decisions making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

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About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

All CAMHS clinicians are required to participate in the team duty rota, providing same-day support for urgent referrals, risk assessments, and responding to crises, ensuring the immediate safety and well-being of young people and their families.

Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their care.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, clinical letters and reports writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the relevant professional body and Trust policies and procedures.

Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Person Specification

Education

• Doctorate in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy. Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
• Post-qualification training in additional specialised areas of relevant practice. ADOS-2 training

skills and abilities

• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychotherapeutic therapies with children, young people, and families.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

experience and knowledge

• Experience of specialist assessment and intervention of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. ?
• Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
• Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD & ADHD and/or using other reliable diagnostic tools. Experience in enabling service user participation.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearPer annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS