Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Main area General Paediatrics Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 5 months (Career Break Cover until 05/03/2027) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job
-UCLH-8334334-A

Site University College London Hospitals Town London Salary £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59

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We are looking for a compassionate and skilled band 7 ACP registered
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our large and supportive Child Psychotherapy team at UCLH.

Due to the very short-term nature of this post we are looking for a candidate with previous experience of working in an acute hospital setting, or a setting very closely related to this work.

This is varied and meaningful therapeutic work with patients from infancy to young adulthood (0-24) who are under medical care here as both outpatients and inpatients.

You will bring a flexible and creative approach to working therapeutically with babies, children, adolescents, families and the complex medical teams around them. A strong ability to work well within multi-professional teams and with children and families in highly distressing and uncertain situations is essential.

We are looking for somebody who can hold the experience and needs of the child/young person at the centre of clinical decision making while working across complex systems. A clinician who can hold a psychoanalytic framework alongside a genuine interest in multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the links between the body and the mind (including where there is trauma and/or neurodivergence) and with a commitment to their own ongoing learning and development.

You will be able to communicate clearly and sensitively with a range of professionals and patients

We are a team of 6 ACP Child Psychotherapists and 3 ACP trainees. We sit within the…