Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 March 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy posts to work within the Dudley CAMHS. We are looking for an ACP registered, qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to delivery psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment. They will be part of a wider psychotherapy team in Dudley.

We are seeking a suitable candidate that is highly motivated and a dynamic individual with a keenness and ability to integrate their current skills and experience and apply them in this context. Important qualities are good communication skills, working co-operatively and thinking creatively

The post holder will provide specialist support to the CAMHS Children and Young people. They will ensure that the implementation and delivery of service is to a high standard in accordance with the Service Specification. A key part of this is to offer specialist psychoanalytical child psychotherapy assessments, consultations and treatment.

We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an organisation that cares for their staff. There are various offers to encourage staff to look after their emotional wellbeing and mental health. There is a monthly CPD training event offered to all CAMHS practitioners and an opportunity to attend case discussions and reflective practice. CPD and training is recognised as an important part of professional development, and this is considered in a yearly Performance Development Conversations.

• Caseload management of referrals made for therapeutic intervention.
• Provision of specialised psychotherapeutic assessments. To ensure the provision of a highly specialised Children and Young People in CAMHS is being delivered. This includes minimisation of risk of harm across the team, maintaining an overview of the standards of care being delivered and instigating remedial action if necessary and in accordance with current legislation and Trust policy and procedure.
• Provision of expert consultation and supervision for internal staff and external agencies.
• Support for Child Psychotherapy Trainees as appropriate. This will entail liaising with the Training School in collaboration with the Consultant Child Psychotherapist.
• To be responsible for service user engagement and development from their feedback and input.
• To work as part of CAMHS, contributing to all its processes, including PDCs, Initial Assessments and goal setting/outcomes/evaluation.
• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local and national policies and legislation, which govern current CAMHS service provision.
• Act as care co-ordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate to the needs of the Children and Young People.
• To develop complex formulations, both in individual practice and when consulted by others, for the psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of a child/young person in care with highly complex emotional problems.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals.
• To be accountable for own professional actions and interpretation of Trust and Professional policies and guidelines.
• To review risk and risk management plans, as part of ongoing assessment for children within CAMHS ensuring that the risk is documented and minimized and appropriately dealt with, in provision of care, and in consideration of those affected by risk, both in and out of hours.
• To continually assess and communicate observations to other professionals and agencies as appropriate and report any circumstances which could place clients in jeopardy/risk or which mitigate against safe standards of practice.
• To participate in the development of CAMHS Service, setting quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.

• oQualification in Child Psychotherapy at an ACP recognised training school.
• oMembership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and evidence of continuous professional development as required by the ACP.
• oExperience as a practising child psychotherapist within CAMHS

• oExtensive clinical experience as a member of a multi-disciplinary team with a wide range of clients, across the full range of clinical severity and across the whole life course.
• oExtensive experience of short and long term individual psychotherapy with young people requiring a high level of skill as well as work with parents and families and networks, including social workers and teachers.

• oHighly…