Child And Adolescent Psychotherapist

What we are looking for?

We are delighted to offer a Band 7 Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist post based at Brent CAMHS.

Brent CAMHS is looking for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist band 7 to join our friendly, supportive, and experienced multi-disciplinary specialist mental health service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled clinician who is able to maintain clinical curiosity and keen to engage in reflective practice as well as be able to be an advocate for children, young people and families' needs.

Clinicians who have previous experience within CAMHS settings and working with young people who have complex needs would be of benefit.

This post is a great opportunity for newly qualified or early career child and adolescent psychotherapists who are passionate about working with young people and their families.

The post provides an excellent opportunity for clinicians to develop their skills and knowledge via regular clinical supervision, being part of Quality Improvement (QI) projects, CPD opportunities as well as multi-disciplinary working within experienced team of Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Nurses, Psychiatrists and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/DBT Therapists.

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You will help the service to provide specialist mental health and neurodevelopmental assessments alongside specialist psychotherapeutic interventions and contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people. You will contribute to highly specialist assessments and intervention for a broad range of complex mental health concerns experienced by children, young people and families within a socially, economically and culturally diverse London borough.

In your role as Brent Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, you will provide a qualified specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. You will offer specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-psychotherapist colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.

As the post holder, you will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. You will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.

The post holder would be based in the Enhanced Treatment team and also in the Child Psychotherapy team within Brent CAMHS.

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

You will work from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service for young people experiencing mental health problems in Brent area.

The post holder would be based in the Enhanced Treatment team and also in the Child Psychotherapy team within Brent CAMHS at Monk Park Health Centre.

• Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals,…