Job summary
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 refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility"
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.
Job Share(s) Considered
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 a CAMHS Psychotherapy
lead where they will be responsible for assessing, treating children, 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 CYPFS mental health through the effective delivery of regularly reviewable
longer and short-term psychotherapy interventions using the Anna Freud iThrive
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 pathway will work directly with CYPFS as well as
providing training and consultation to parents, carers,
and staff in 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 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.
The post holder will also provide clinical oversight
within the pathway.
This will include working with CYPFS who are living in and responding to
demanding circumstances and will be both complex and challenging. CYPFS can be
from socially excluded groups, including families from Black and Minority
Ethnic Groups, and young parents. The work will be to the wider system of
education, primary and social care, and a range of other agencies.
The post holder
will be responsible for holding, managing, and overseeing clinical caseload and
exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and
prioritising of own and other team members workload and the assessment,
treatment and discharge of children, young people, and families.
Other dimensions:
To be responsible
for the oversight and management of the CAMHS psychotherapy waiting list
alongside the CAMHS pathway manager need where necessary.
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, alongside
To be responsible
for leading and organising the CAMHS psychotherapy team meeting and review
outcomes regularly.
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.
The post holder will work autonomously and
jointly within professional guidelines.
The post holder will ensure that high
standard of the service is maintained at all times.
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
bases 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 interventions with
parents, who may be vulnerable and may have mental health problems, as a
counterpart to individual therapy with the child/young person.
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 provide highly specialist advice, guidance, and
consultation to professional colleagues within CAMHS.
To provide highly specialist advice, guidance, and
consultation to external agencies to assist their understanding and analysis of
the child / young person and familys complex needs, to assist in developing
appropriate care pathways.
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 deliver highly specialist training programmes to
other professionals both within CAMHS and to external agencies on the
application of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
To be responsible for a highly specialist training,
internally and externally on a particular area of clinical specialism.
To participate as required in the Psychotherapy
Discipline teaching programmes and professional meetings and case discussion
To be responsible for contributing to the academic
and clinical teaching programmes provided by CAMHS
To provide highly specialist psychoanalytic
supervision to colleagues within CAMHS including psychiatrists, psychologists,
nurses, social workers, art therapists, and trainee psychologists.
To provide supervision, as required by the Clinical
Pathway Manager to the Child Psychotherapists in Training.
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 undertake line management and caseload responsibilities
for the team alongside the clinical pathway manager.
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 skills
Desirable
- Knowledge of the key strategies and policies affecting childrens mental health services and how that is located into a wider strategic picture of child health and well-being.
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience as a Child Psychotherapist within CAMHS
- Extensive knowledge of normal and abnormal child development and other relevant theories, practices, and research in the field of child and adolescent development
- Substantial experience in working in multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context
- Knowledge of Child Protection legislation
- Knowledge of research methodology
- Experience of recent research and audit
- Knowledge about risk assessment and how to support all staff members in assessing and managing risk.
- Knowledge of the range of specific clinical and therapeutic skills relevant to working with children and young people aged 0-19 and their families.
Desirable
- Work with non-communicating children
- Keyboard / IT skills
- Experience of working with partner agencies
- Experience of working across the age range
Aptitude and Ability
Essential
- Able to maintain appropriate professional boundaries
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with patients, families and staff, about highly complex and sensitive matters in situations of potential conflict or psychological/emotional pain, and where mental health problems affect relationships
- Ability to express complex and multi-layered concepts in clear and appropriate ways across a range of contexts and where there may be considerable resistance, through reports, publication or public presentation
- Ability to contain and work with emotional distress both within the patients, their carers and within organisations, and to hold the stress of others
- Capacity to reflect and contain intense feelings that are evoked in oneself by exposure to highly distressing emotional material
- Ability to remain still and maintain intense concentration over long periods of time, in clinical settings where there may be high levels of distress, verbal or physical aggression or chaotic activity
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative way with colleagues
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team with a varying theoretical perspectives
- Well developed communication skills both oral and written.
- Able to reason, including the ability to analyse, interpret, evaluate and draw assumptions from data and information. Able to utilise complex information to identify solutions.
- Able to analyse and find solutions to operational issues, providing solutions and motivating people to solving problems.
- Ability to communicate effectively (including sensitive information) verbally, adjusting language, style and content as appropriate to the audience.
- Sensitive to the needs of others and is able to deal with conflict and issues of poor performance in an effective and non confrontational manner.
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity and is able to reflect upon own actions and make changes where necessary.
- Self motivating and able to work on own initiative
Desirable
- Dealing with highly complex sensitive or contentious information where there may be barriers to understanding.
- Ability to work with ambiguity and in an immediate environment that is subject to rapid and fundamental change
- Ability to work with defined management arrangements
- Ability to work within Trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Ability to function independently
- The ability to maintain working partnerships with other organisations in the delivery of integrated care.
- Effective leadership skills that motivate and involve a team.
- Good organisational and time management skills with an ability to prioritise
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Livewell Southwest
Address
Livewell South West
Mount Gould Road
Plymouth
PL4 7QD