Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Band 8b

Main area Band 8B Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 26.25 hours per week Job ref 373-CYP1330-A RR

Site Elm House Town Macclesfield Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/03/2025 23:59

Job overview

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.

If this applies to you, please state this on your application so we can discuss this with you if you are invited to interview.

We have a rare opportunity to join our expanding Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (CAPT) workforce in Cheshire’s 0-18 Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). This brand-new role reflects CWP’s commitment to delivering innovative, psychoanalytically informed evidenced based care for children, young people & families.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced 8b CAPT, or an 8a CAPT with strong clinical leadership skills looking to move into a more senior role. You’ll be joining after the successful introduction of the Trust-wide Consultant CAPT alongside CWP’s commitment to develop and invest in its Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy workforce.

You must be a full member of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to apply.

Main duties of the job

As the Principal CAPT, you will be a vital member of our MDT and offer highly developed clinical leadership skills, collaborating with a range of partner mental health professionals. You will provide highly specialist psychoanalytic assessments and treatment of children and young people presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties with a main base in one of our Cheshire CYPMHS 0-18 services. With close ties to the DChPsychPsych programme at NSCAP, you’ll have the opportunity to offer placements for trainee CAPTs.

At CWP, we take pride in our forward-thinking approach to mental health care across all ages. You’ll have opportunities to engage with our clinical networks, contribute to service development, evaluation and research.

We offer:

• Clinical and professional supervision
• Ongoing professional development to support your growth
• A highly supportive working environment that encourages service innovation and research

Please contact Dr Tim Smith for further information T: 01270 253841 E: tim.smith28@nhs.net or to arrange an informal visit.

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-graduate diploma or Master’s degree (pre-clinical training recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists).
• Professional qualification as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (doctoral-level training or equivalent).
• Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
• Post qualification training in clinical supervision.
• Relevant post-qualification training for specialist clinical, research, professional teaching/supervision or equivalent.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of child and adolescent psychotherapy, including psychoanalytic theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics and models of intervention and practice.
• A minimum of 4 years post-qualification experience of working in the role of a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist offering psychoanalytic clinical assessment/intervention with children/young people presenting severe and complex difficulties (and their families, parents/carers) in a CAMHS (or equivalent) setting.
• Significant experience of representing child and adolescent psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
• Experience of designing and implementing audits.

Skills

• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to children, young people and their families and to a range of professionals within and outside the NHS.
• Capacity to communicate clearly with a wide range of multidisciplinary team colleagues.
• Ability to assess risk, manage risk and make complex judgment about risk issues.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Tim Smith Job title Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Email address tim.smith28@nhs.net Telephone number 01625 712042

Giving you time to care, space to think and opportunity to grow

We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.

Our services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers and families.

With vacancies across a range of professions, wherever you’re at in your career journey, you’ll find something to suit you. So why not join our team today?