Overview
We are seeking an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist to take up the role of Co-Lead Child Psychotherapist for Bromley CAMHS, and Co-Principal Child Psychotherapist for the Generic Team, in partnership with an experienced colleague already in role. You will jointly lead the provision of an efficient, effective and comprehensive specialist child and adolescent psychotherapy service for children and adolescents with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems and their carers within the Generic multidisciplinary team, carrying your own caseload and supporting colleagues working across the service in our Adolescent, LAAC and Neurodevelopmental teams. You will provide supervision, consultation, teaching and training to psychotherapists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, jointly provide clinical leadership within the Generic Team, and lead on key service initiatives within the service, the discipline, and at Trust level. There is a strong psychotherapy group in Bromley CAMHS, from trainee level through to band 8s, who are valued highly by their multidisciplinary colleagues, and who run a weekly psychotherapy workshop for colleagues as well as peer supervision spaces. You will also be part of a vibrant Oxleas Trust-wide child psychotherapy group who meet regularly for CPD activities and organise an annual public conference.
Responsibilities
- To lead and support the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy discipline within Bromley CAMHS;
- To contribute to leadership within the Generic Team, alongside the Team Manager and Senior Clinical Psychologist, for instance by facilitating team reflective practice, Initial Assessment “Hubs” and some additional team meetings;
- To contribute to the leadership of the service through participation in Management meetings and other senior functions such as clinical triage and the “duty senior” role;
- To support more junior psychotherapists, for instance through supervision, and facilitation of peer supervision and workshop spaces;
- To supervise a child psychotherapist in doctoral training;
- To carry a small caseload of direct psychotherapy cases, whether short-, medium- or longer-term, and parent work cases;
- To contribute to service-development initiatives at the CAMHS and Trust level.
You will be an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with a high level of clinical and interpersonal skill, with experience of supervision of more junior colleagues and/or trainees, or the aptitude and interest to develop such skills further. You will be able to think calmly and creatively under pressure, containing the anxieties of multi-disciplinary colleagues and more junior colleagues, in clinical situations presenting interpersonal and emotional pressure, complexity, safeguarding difficulty or risk.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tanya Martin Job title: Generic Team Manager Email address: tanya.martin1@nhs.net Telephone number: 02083154430
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