Lead Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Enfield CAMHS

Lead Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Enfield CAMHS

The post currently lies within the Enfield Service Line of the North London Foundation Mental Health Trust: Enfield Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Community CAMHS).

This role is a job share and responsibilities of the role will be shared between both clinicians in role.

Ready to lead and inspire? Apply now and be a part of our journey in transforming mental health care for young people in Enfield.

Main duties of the job

Are you an experienced and passionate Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist looking for a leadership opportunity? Join our well-established and talented Enfield CAMHS team, co-leading alongside our existing Lead Psychotherapist.

This part-time (2 days/week) role has been created as part of our commitment to enhancing our psychological therapies offer. You'll work within a rich multidisciplinary team (MDT) of skilled professionals dedicated to providing outstanding care for children, young people, and families.

Your expertise will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering high-quality therapeutic interventions, supporting the team's development, and ensuring excellent service delivery.

What We Offer:

• A collaborative, supportive, and innovative working environment
• Opportunities for professional development and leadership growth
• A chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people in Enfield

About us

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Haringey Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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

1. To provide generic mental health and specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team drawing on a variety of sources including psychological, 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.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child, young person and their families' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychoanalytically based psychological therapies and interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family or group.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (ACP), including specifically models of Child Development, Early Attachment, psychometric and neuropsychology
• Full membership of the ACP and PSA (Professional Standards Authority).
• Training in STPP Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and other NICE approved therapeutic interventions
• Accredited supervisor training

Skills

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (at Band 8A level) in community CAMHS settings.
• Experience of working with children, young people and their families/carers presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan.
• Well developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of other highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the psychological therapies fields.

Experience

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychologically based assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

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.