Child and Adolescent psychotherapist - under 5s team

Overview

Child and Adolescent psychotherapist – under 5s team. North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). We are looking to recruit an innovative, energetic Child Psychotherapist to our growing under 5s provision. The postholder will be part of the newly formed 0-5 BEH CAMHS, undertaking complex specialist assessments, formulating, managing risk, providing specialist interventions, teaching and consultation to partner agencies.To provide NLFT with a high-quality, evidence-based Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, including assessment and therapy to patients and their families.To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues and external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team\''s policies and procedures.To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child and their family\''s mental health problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), employing methods of proven efficacy across the full range of care settings, in consultation with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).To reflect upon assessments and treatment formulations, adjusting and refining them, drawing on different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.To be responsible, in consultation with the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Service Lead, for implementing a range of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models of interventions for children and their families/carers, within and across teams.To provide assessment and discharge care planning to families of young children and infants as part of a local protocol and rota. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.About NLFT and Our Values

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local population. Our Five-Year Strategy includes:Providing consistently high-quality care closer to homeEnsuring equity of outcome for all with our partners across North LondonOffering supportive environments to enable staff to deliver outstanding carePioneering research, quality improvement and technology to be more effective as an organisationDeveloping and retaining staff through leadership behaviours and management developmentPromoting flexible working and a range of health and wellbeing initiativesNHS discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension schemeExcellent internal staff networkThe post holder will be aligned with our values: We Are Kind, We Are Respectful, We Work Together, We Keep Things Simple, We Empower, We Are Proudly Diverse.Location and working arrangements

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required to work at different locations that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.How to apply

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jason Clarke, Job title: Team Manager Under 5 Service, Email: ..... full job details .....