Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

Highly Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and ACP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist with more than 2 years post-qualifying experience, to join a CAMHS for Children Looked After (CLA) and Care Experienced Young People that is co-located with Children's Social Care. The core clinical role has a consultative focus, including offering group and individual consultation to Social Workers. The role will have a clinical caseload of direct work with CLA, carers and birth parents.

Our work is framed within a stepped model of care; and is guided by Islington CLA's Practice Models (DDP, Mentalisation, Motivational Practice, Return Home).

We are a dynamic, multidisciplinary team and offer opportunities for continued professional development and reflective practice.

We encourage applications from all sections of the community to develop a team which is more representative of our client group.

• To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation to social workers in the Children Looked After Service to support their practice and management of young people presenting with a range of presentations and needs.
• To attend group supervision, sharing clinical and mental health knowledge and expertise to contribute to case discussion.
• To facilitate consultations with social workers and supervising social workers, to enhance their trauma-informed, relationship based-practice with children and caregivers.
• To provide specialist mental health assessment, formulation and interventions with children, young people and care-givers
• To provide specialist evidence-based intervention for looked after children and carers, drawing on innovative ways of engagement and intervention.
• To provide specialist evidence-based interventions for birth parents which will aid reunification, including processing of their experiences of having a child removed and relational work to rebuild the parent-child relationship.
• To formulate and devise clinical management plans for a range of specialist psychological interventions; individual, family and group.
• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, as required.
• To liaise with professionals in health, mental health, education, social care and voluntary sector services, as required.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

MAIN DUTIES

Consultation and Clinical Work

To provide highly specialist mental health advice and consultation to social workers Islington's service for CLA and Care Experienced Young People - to support their practice and management of children and young people aged 0-18 with a range of presentations and needs. To attend group supervision, sharing clinical and mental health knowledge and expertise to contribute to case discussion. To facilitate individual and joint consultations with social workers, supervising social workers, and other professionals in the parenting team, to enhance their trauma and DDP informed practice.

To facilitate individual and joint consultations specifically focussing on reunification and repair of parent-child relationships To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills of the CLA workforce and to support embedding of the social work practice model. To provide specialist assessment and intervention for young people looked after, leaving care, their carers, families and professional networks, using evidence based and innovative ways of engagement and intervention.

It is expected that 20% of the job plan would be allocated to direct clinical work, whether with foster carers, key workers or young people. To formulate and devise clinical management plans for a range of specialist psychological…