To work as a senior member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist child psychotherapy service to children, young people, their families, or carers. To deliver, support and develop psychological practice within the team through psychoanalytically informed consultation, supervision, formulation, and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance.
To work with complex presentations suitable for child psychotherapy in the team, utilising a high level of knowledge and experience and adapting approaches as appropriate, with regard to evidence-based practice.
- To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychoanalytic child psychotherapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
- To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
- To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
- To offer consultation and clinical supervision to Psychological Therapists, Trainee Psychological Therapists and Psychological Practitioners as appropriate.
- To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, psychological therapists, trainee psychological therapists, trainee psychologists and psychological practitioners.
- To provide consultation and advice about psychoanalytic and child psychotherapy issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with patients.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of professional practice within the service/team.
- To contribute to and take responsibility for local service developments under the supervision of the professional lead.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
- Recognised postgraduate level training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy conferring eligibility for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Professionally registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
- Significant experience of delivering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation, and treatment) including 2 years minimum post qualifying. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- A high level of competence in applying a child psychotherapy to complex difficulties and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
- Substantial experience in mental health gained during and/or after child psychotherapy training.
- Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
- Experience of representing psychoanalytic psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Significant experience of working with the client group served by the team/service.
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of child psychotherapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Experience of delivering group interventions
- Experience of conducting formal research, audit, or service evaluation in a healthcare setting
- Lived experience of mental health issues.
Communication / Relationship skills:
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Proven ability to establish, maintain and conclude therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Analytical & Judgement skills:
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- An ability to make effective use of clinical supervision and to utilise these skills in contributing to clinical consultation within the team and to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon one's own part in it.
Planning & Organisational skills:
- Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions.
- Ability to plan and manage a workload.
- Ability to assist or take a lead in specific service development projects.
People Management / Leadership / Resources
- Ability to supervise and support appropriate psychological therapists and practitioners in the locality, undertaking appraisals and managing sickness and annual leave where appropriate.
IT Skills
- Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
