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Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children —London
- £75,328 - £86,114 a year
- Part-time
- Doctoral degree
- Presentation skills
- Teaching
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CAMHS Clinician in Social Emotional Mental Health team
Whittington Health NHS Trust —London
- £58,133 - £65,261 a year
- Full-time
9d
CAMHS Practitioner - Lambeth CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust —London
- £47,951 - £56,863 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Presentation skills
- Case management
4d
Senior Social Worker Specialist Adolescent Team
LondonBoroughofBexley —Bexleyheath
- £51,969 - £58,398 a year
- Call to connect
- Annual leave
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Therapist
The Green Room Foundation Ltd —Windsor
- From £43,000 a year
- Part-time
- Master's degree
- IT
- Care plans
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
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Clinical Manager (MHST)
Barnet Council —London
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Oracle
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Psymplicity Healthcare —London
- Full-time
- Remote
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Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children -
London

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time
£75,328 - £86,114 a year
11 days ago

Benefits

UK visa sponsorship

Qualifications

Doctoral degree
Presentation skills
Teaching

Full job description

Main area

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Grade

Band 8b

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Job ref

271-BBM-8034447

Site

MCU PAMHS

Town

London

Salary

£75,328 - £86,114 pro rata per annum inclusive

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

23/07/2026 23:59

Job overview

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]

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.

We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.

We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.

We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.

Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

GOSH Culture and Values

Essential criteria

Our Always values

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

Essential criteria

Doctoral level training in child and adolescent psychotherapy (registered with ACP)
Post-graduate qualification in psychoanalytic observation

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinician at a highly specialist level
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
Experience of the application of discipline in different cultural contexts and of working in a multicultural framework
Experience of preparing highly complex assessment reports and formulations.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people, safeguarding, child protection and the mental health act.

Desirable criteria

Experience of teaching and training and presenting to multidisciplinary audiences at conferences and other training institutions.

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Highly specialised assessment and formulation skills relevant to professional discipline, including family assessment, developmental assessments, state of mind assessments.
Highly specialist skills in communication both verbally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to families and professionals.
Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Ability to identify research needs of the service and facilitate quality improvement projects.
Ability to draw on a variety of approaches in the engagement of complex and hard to reach patient groups.

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

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 .

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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