Welcome to our Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon Under 5s team.

Following the successful establishment of Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Under 5s Service in 2017, CNWL is expanding this model of high-quality brief early intervention to the diverse and thriving communities of the outer boroughs.

We are recruiting two Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to join this exciting enterprise. The post is for professionals focused on innovative ways of working with Under 5s and the benefits of brief early intervention. The post holders will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team undertaking clinical functions in line with their clinical expertise to implement the service, under the guidance of the senior Child Psychotherapists leading the project.

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Main duties of the job

The role involves a creative and passionate approach to service development, and offers the opportunity of being part of a pioneering initiative. We are looking for clinicians with sound understanding of infant mental health, and who are open to growing and developing in this field. As this is a brand-new service, we are looking forward to growing and developing together with you.

We are advertising two 0.8 (4 days/week) band 7 posts for the Boroughs Brent and Hillingdon. The post holders will be based within each borough's CAMHS team and in one of the local Children's Centres.

The service aims to provide an accessible, destigmatising, culturally sensitive infant/young child mental health perspective through:

• consultation to parents and professionals
• specialist assessment
• 6 session brief work with Under 5s and their families, using evidence-based treatment
• interagency partnership working
• teaching and training in infant mental health and early attachment.

About us

The Child Psychotherapist role requires a motivated, organised and enthusiastic professional interested in supporting a lively Under 5s clinical team. They will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team undertaking clinical functions in line with their clinical expertise to implement the project under the guidance of the Band 8C Child Psychotherapist and Lead of the project.

If you are interested and would like more information, please call Claudia de Campos, Under 5s Service Lead and Brent Therapies Lead or Sarah Kavanaugh Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist early intervention psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for children Under 5 and their families with

highly complex and persistent infant mental health problems and presentations beyond ordinary developmental expectations, their carers/parents and families within care pathways as relevant.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of families with children Under 5 with complex infant mental health presentations, developmental and emotional difficulties.

To offer consultation, teaching and training on infant mental health and attachment to multidisciplinary colleagues

To contribute to audit and research.

To actively engage in outcome monitoring, including the use of normed routine outcome measures associated with CYP IAPT

To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework of the CAMHS Directorates and the Trusts policies and procedures.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Masters level preclinical training at an Association of Child Psychotherapists recognised training school - post graduate doctoral level training in clinical child psychotherapy at a training school accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapy or Association of Child Psychotherapists Statement of Equivalence

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in relevant fields in health, social care or education settings

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their parents as a full member of a multidisciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety child, adolescents across the whole age range (0-18) and their parents, and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and complexity.

Desirable

• Experience of working in different CAMHS Tiers.
• Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychotherapeutic assessment, intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
• Awareness of the implications of working within a managed system.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education Structures, National policies and frameworks.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings

Other

Essential

• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others and present the work of child psychotherapists within public, professional and academic settings

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brent,

Wembley

HA9 6JE

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