Job Description

Are you a child and adolescent psychotherapist that has a passion for working with children and young people their families and careers?



Due to the current post holder relocating, an opportunity has arisen in CAMHS, for a band 8a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our specialist multi-disciplinary team. AWP CAMHS has a well-developed and highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapy service including Professional Lead who is committed to ensuring all psychotherapists have excellent CPD opportunities and supervision and reflective space.



You will have relevant core professional qualification and professional body registration. You will be based at Barton Hill Settlement.



You will provide a psychotherapy assessment and treatment service and other forms of assessment and treatment in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary team. This will involve complex assessment of family situations, including high risk (e.g. deliberate self-harm) and recommendations for appropriate treatment interventions from the range of options available. This work will take place in specialist community CAMHS clinics.



Ensure that appropriate liaison with other professionals and outside agencies in relation to cases of a more complex nature is undertaken.



Contribute to the general clinical work of the multi-disciplinary team.



To contribute and be part of CAPA (choice and Partnership) appointment system.



We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.



At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.



The post holder will provide assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families and carers based on psycho-analytic principles and techniques.



The post holder will be expected to provide child psychotherapeutic input into the multi-disciplinary team and to offer consultation, supervision and teaching to professional colleagues to the applicant's level of experience.



Depending on experience the post holder will be expected to contribute to the broad range of clinical work undertaken by the team. In addition they will have the opportunity and encouragement to develop specialist skills in a particular area, in line with priorities agreed with the team.



The post holder would be expected to have an interest in brief psychotherapeutic interventions as well as longer term work. This work may take place across a variety of settings



Please refer to the for more details which includes the Person Specification for this role