We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP Registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and/ or Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families.

We are seeking to recruit to 1.0 WTE (10 sessions) within CAMHS. We will consider those looking for full-time roles as well as those interested in job share. Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential.

The role encompasses clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you will also deliver. Newham CAMHS's Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the well-established Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service which currently sits within the Child Psychotherapy team in order to provide a specialist perinatal assessment and treatment service within Newham CAMHS. Its purpose is to increase our ability to work with families where there are attachment concerns, risk of trauma or experience of trauma using evidence-based interventions and current best practice in this field.

The post-holder will help build upon the existing link with perinatal services in Newham, with CAMHS and other local maternity and Early Years services, including via the new Family Hubs, building strong working relationships with colleagues working with parents and infants in the borough.

The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.

It is recognised that a Tier 3 service addressing the psychological and emotional health of infants and parents requires highly specialist skills the capacity to work with primitive mental processes in both parent and infant is pivotal to the work.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note that membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement for this post.

Please also see the attached job description to give a full breakdown of the role and criteria for applicants

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Honours degree and Postgraduate Diploma/ MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies or recognised equivalent
• Minimum Masters level in Psychoanalytic
• Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant work experience or Qualification
• Specialist Parent- Infant Mental Health training

Desirable

• Perinatal Mental Health training

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of two years' post-registration experience working as a child psychotherapist in CAMHS
• Experience of working with parents/ carers and their babies psychoanalytically
• Experience in offering brief and longer term models of care for this client group
• Substantial experience of a qualification or substantial experience in delivering evidence-based assessment and treatments children, young people and families with emotional and behavioural problems
• Substantial theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the treatment of serious mental health disturbance in parents and infants and clinical experience of working with complex cases in child & adolescent mental health
• Substantial experience of working psychoanalytically with parents/infants with serious relationship difficulties and attachment difficulties.
• Experience and understanding of working with families from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and families with a high level of deprivation

Desirable

• Substantial experience of undertaking CAMHS assessments and formulating a wide range of child mental health presentations in conjunction with the MDT
• Leadership experience

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and an understanding of implication for clinical activity.
• Knowledge of recent legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children and their families.
• Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child safeguarding.
• Knowledge of evidence-based approaches for working with parents/infants.

Desirable

• Knowledge of newborns, early infancy and child development including knowledge of infant mental health.

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newham CAMHS

York House, 411 Barking Road

London

E13 8AL

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