Job Description

The Brent Harrow Hillingdon Under 5s CAMHS Team is a new service, commissioned to provide brief parent-infant and parent-child psychotherapy to families with babies and young children in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. It is an expansion of the successful Under 5s CNWL service that operates in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. The team is multi-disciplinary, though run as a psychoanalytic service.We are looking for ACP accredited child psychotherapists with an experience of and passion for Under 5s work. They will be part of embedding our service in Hillingdon and Brent Children's Centres, making relationships with families and local stakeholders. You will offer brief psychotherapy to families and consultation to professionals and parents. The opportunity to retain clinical work with latency and adolescent cases is available through the child psychotherapy service in Hillingdon and Brent CAMHS. We accept and encourage applications from people qualifying in Summer 2024.To find out more about working in CAMHS pleaseClick herefor video.Main duties of the jobThe 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 a 0.8 (4 days/week) 2 band 7 posts for the Boroughs of Hillingdon and Brent . The post holder will be based within Hillingdon and Brent CAMHS teams 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 usThe 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 7 Child Psychotherapist and Lead of the project.The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.Date posted02 May 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 7Salaryxc2xa351,883 to xc2xa358,544 a year per annum (pro rata P/T) inc HCASContractPermanentWorking patternPart-timeReference number333-G-CA-1548Job locationsHillingdon CAMHS Minet Clinic /Brent CAMHS Monks ParkAvondale Drive/Monks ParkHayes/WembleyUB3 3NRJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesKey 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.

Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesKey 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 SpecificationTRAINING & QUALIFICATIONSEssential

• 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

ExperienceEssential

• 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.
• Substantial experience of working within a CBT and/or MANTRA or CAT framework with patients who present with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severit
• Supervised experience of delivering evidence based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions.
• Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.

Desirable

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

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLSEssential

• 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 the theory and practice of CBT in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialised psychological therapy.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Publication and presentation of clinical research in the field of the eating disorders or associated areas of mental health.

OtherEssential

• 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

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristicsEssential

• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Person SpecificationTRAINING & QUALIFICATIONSEssential

• 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

ExperienceEssential

• 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.
• Substantial experience of working within a CBT and/or MANTRA or CAT framework with patients who present with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severit
• Supervised experience of delivering evidence based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions.
• Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.

Desirable

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

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLSEssential

• 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 the theory and practice of CBT in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialised psychological therapy.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Publication and presentation of clinical research in the field of the eating disorders or associated areas of mental health.

OtherEssential

• 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

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristicsEssential

• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

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