Post: Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Band: 8b (22.5 hours)
This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly specialist MDT in the Mildred Creak Unit within Psychological and Mental Health Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital (PAMHS). MCU is an eight-bed inpatient unit for under 13’s. It is part of the North Central London Network and provides treatment for a range of presentations, including functional disorders, eating disorders and patients requiring paediatric liaison.
We are looking for a senior clinician with extensive clinical experience who is interested in working in an inpatient environment. This is an opportunity for the post holder to draw on specialist knowledge and skills to understand and treat complex mental health conditions in childhood and early adolescence. It is intended that the post holder will play a key role alongside other members of the MDT in the delivery of complex assessment, formulation and highly specialist therapeutic interventions for children and their parents and families during admission on the unit.
Interested applicants please contact:
Dr Louise Allnutt, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, [email protected]
The Department of Psychological and Mental Health Services (PAMHS) provides mental health services for children and young adolescents with severe and complex mental health difficulties. There are various specialist services within PAMHS, one of which is the Mildred Creak Unit (MCU).
MCU is an eight bed Inpatient Unit for Under 13’s. It is part of the North Central London Network and provides Treatment for a range of presentations, including Functional Disorders, Eating Disorders and patients requiring paediatric liaison.
This role is designed to enhance the current provision on the unit in which a multi-disciplinary team draw on a wide range of approaches and modalities to meet the complex needs of the children, young people and parents. The CAMHS therapy team currently provide systemic family therapy, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and a wide range of psychological interventions to both individuals and families. This role would suit a senior clinician with a broad vision of clinical intervention with often chronic as well as complex emotional conditions in children with a level of clinical skill and expertise in engaging children and families in therapeutic change. It is also expected that this clinician will need to draw on their clinical experience to support families and networks through complex assessments involved in understanding the safeguarding needs of the children involved in MCU treatment.
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