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Psychotherapist

Employer
Livewell Southwest CIC
Location
Plymouth
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pa, pro rata
Closing date
15 Nov 2024
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Profession
Mental health, Counsellor / Psychotherapist
Grade
Band 8A
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
37.5 hours per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Plymouth CAMHS Therapies pathway. We are looking for a CAMHS Psychotherapy lead where they will be responsible for assessing, treating children, young people & their families in relation to a range of complex emotional, psychological & behavioural problems. Namely psychoanalytically informed long & short-term interventions within the psychotherapy pathway.

Our aim is to improve CYPFS mental health through the effective delivery of regularly reviewable longer & short-term psychotherapy interventions using the Anna Freud iThrive framework to inform & provide safe, effective, cost efficient, timely & accessible services that are in accordance with national & local priorities & responsive to the needs & views of local children, young people & their families.

CAMHS services are changing vastly & demands for the service are high. The post holder is expected to embrace change & be flexible in their approach following service developments.

The pathway will work directly with CYPFS as well as providing training & consultation to parents, carers & staff in partner agencies. The pathway will work within the locally agreed demand & capacity model which is determined for each staff member through the job planning process.

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Please note that we may close the job advertisement earlier than the deadline if a high number of applications are submitted.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to individuals, carers, families, & groups, within and across CAMHS pathways, in line with best, evidence-based practice.

You will also provide clinical oversight within the pathway. This will include working with CYPFS who are living in & responding to demanding circumstances and will be both complex & challenging. CYPFS can be from socially excluded groups, including families from Black and Minority Ethnic Groups & young parents. The work will be to the wider system of education, primary and social care & a range of other agencies.

You will be responsible for holding, managing & overseeing clinical caseload & exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own & other team members workload & the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people & families.

To be responsible for the oversight & management of the CAMHS psychotherapy waiting list alongside the CAMHS pathway manager need where necessary.

To use analytical & judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.

To offer supervision to child & adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychological therapists, trainee psychological therapists & psychological practitioners as appropriate.

All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:

Protected CPD time for registered staff

Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff

Leadership & mentoring programmes

Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training

A Robust Preceptorship

A bespoke induction programme

Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Plymouth CAMHS Therapies pathway. We are looking for an experienced Psychotherapist who will undertake assessments and intervention with young people, and their families in relation to a range of complex emotional, psychological, and behavioural problems. Namely psychoanalytically informed long and short-term interventions within the psychotherapy pathway

Our aim is to improve children and young people's mental health through the effective delivery of regularly, reviewable longer and short-term psychotherapy interventions using the Anna Freud I Thrive framework to inform and provide safe, effective, cost efficient, timely and accessible services that are in accordance with national and local priorities and responsive to the needs and views of local children, young people and their families.

CAMHS services are changing vastly and demands for the service are high. The post holder is expected to embrace change and be flexible in their approach following service developments.

The post holder will provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across CAMHS pathways, in line with best, evidence-based practice.

This post holder will work directly with children and young people as well as providing training and consultation to parents, carers, and staff in our partner agencies. The pathway will work within the locally agreed demand and capacity model which is determined for each staff member through the job planning process.

The post holder will also provide clinical oversight within the pathway. This will include working with Children and Young people who are living in and responding to demanding circumstances and will be both complex and challenging.

Other dimensions:

To be responsible for the oversight and management of the CAMHS psychotherapy waiting list alongside the CAMHS pathway manager.

To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.

To provide consultation and advice about psychoanalytic and child psychotherapy issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.

Take a lead with team safeguarding processes and supervision.

To offer supervision to child & adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychological therapists, trainee psychological therapists and psychological practitioners as appropriate.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of professional practice within the service/pathway.

To contribute to and take responsibility for local service developments and implement policy changes as the psychotherapy lead.

To undertake audit and research relevant to the pathway.

To manage an autonomous caseload for children and young people who are experiencing highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties including exposure to domestic violence and other trauma.

To provide formal, highly specialist assessments of children and their parents/carers, to inform and assist in planning care pathways, both within the CAMHS and with other agencies, considering relevant evidence base research, theory practice and highly complex processes which have shaped the child, their parents/carers and family.

To provide individual short- and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children either individually or with their parent/carers with the focus of the work being based in parent/child relationships.

To provide highly specialist, psychoanalytically based assessment and treatment to families who may be highly dysfunctional, with complex and persistent problems.

To provide psychoanalytic group work, including providing training to other professionals in psychoanalytic group work practice.

To participate in regular review and ongoing discussion of cases in treatment with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate, co-ordinate and organise network meetings with professional members of other agencies.

To be responsible for continually monitoring and evaluating risk to / from children and young people in own caseload and during supervision / consultation discussions. This may be due to Child Protection concerns emotionally led behavioural issues or other risk behaviour in their parents/carers

To be responsible for the application of a range of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired over a significant period of time (e.g., developments in psychoanalysis, child development, attachment theory, neurobiology, systems theory, and group work.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a specialist psychoanalytically informed understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group, their parents / carers, and families.

To be responsible for a highly specialist training, internally and externally on a particular area of clinical specialism.

To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic supervision to colleagues within CAMHS including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, art therapists, and trainee psychologists.

To receive regular clinical and service-related supervision from your clinical supervisor, in accordance with good practice guidelines and the supervision requirement of Livewell Southwest

To gain highly specialist experience and training relevant to a specific area of clinical specialism.

To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision.

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Clinical Pathway Manager

To take part in the LWSW annual appraisal and individual performance review programme.

To devise and develop research programmes relevant to the treatment methods of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as appropriate within CAMHS

To promote and undertake audit as appropriate within CAMHS Audit Programme

To utilise theory, literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in all areas of clinical practice.

To participate and lead in the development of specialist services both within CAMHS and externally with other agencies

To support and enhance the continual quality initiative towards improving services for service users.

To be responsible for contributing to the development. Implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service, in conjunction with the Clinical Pathway Manager.

To participate in activities of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services as appropriate and required.

To maintain accurate and up to date records of clinical activity

To ensure appropriate, safe, clinical environment for children in treatment including provision of appropriate play materials.

To be part of a team of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists who provide services to the CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

To maintain and develop links with other Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists in the region.

To collaborate with colleagues in the multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health services in the planning and provision of services.

To liaise and collaborate with colleagues from various professions in health, education, and social services as well as the voluntary sector.

To report to the Clinical Pathway Manager and other service managers as identified.

To communicate sensitively with children and young people, with their families / carers, to ensure the highest quality of care.

Take a lead with team safeguarding processes and supervision and processes, this will include undertaking safeguarding supervision training.

Person Specification

Circumstances

Essential

  • Valid driving licence
  • Ability to travel across Plymouth
  • Able to work evenings up to 8 pm and weekends if required.
  • Ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and with other colleagues in LWSW and with partner agencies.
  • Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.


Desirable

  • Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job. It is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement.
  • Adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act.


Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised Qualification in Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy (equivalent to Doctorate Level Degree)
  • Eligibility for membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
  • Evidence of current CPD as recommended by professional body.


Desirable

  • Breakaway/
  • Management of aggression training


Understanding

Essential

  • An understanding of the system of health, social care, education and third sector for children and families.
  • Understanding which supports the implementation of quality and patient safety, health and safety legislation, local and national policy around safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
  • Understanding of performance management and the role this can play in the delivery of excellent and effective services.
  • Mental Health assessment skills
  • Well established case management s
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