Psychologist, Family Therapist/Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Broadstairs; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job description

Psychologist, Family Therapist/Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

NHS AFC: Band 8a

Main area: CYPMHS Grade NHS AFC: Band 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 30 hours per week (Part time, Flexible working)

Job ref: 395-PP259-24-A

Site: Orchard House, Broadstairs, Kent

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 PA pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical psychologist, family therapist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in Thanet CYPMHS. Driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), the service provides the latest in evidence-based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

You will:

1. Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within CYPMHS.
2. Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
3. Undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate.
4. Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
5. Provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians throughout the CYPMHS team.

Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist).

Qualification and experience

• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, UKCP, AFT, ACP).
• Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
• Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.