Psychotherapist - CAMHS

Are you an enthusiastic and innovative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist looking for a rewarding opportunity? Hampshire CAMHS have a strong commitment to providing high-quality Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy for children, young people and families.

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy is a highly valued and protected part of our Psychological Therapies service. We are looking for a creative and motivated child psychotherapist who is committed to our CAPt values and core principles in offering and developing psychotherapy within our service.

Your unique and specialist skills, training and experience will support specialist assessments and psychotherapeutic interventions within our mental health service, including working with complex trauma, children in need and neurodiversity, working collaboratively across a variety of external agencies.

We encourage and provide opportunities to contribute to innovations and development within CAPt and our service and welcome flexibility, forward thinking & your contribution to team culture and processes including reflective practice.

You will be enrolled on our new to CAMHS training, therapies and CAPt leadership and team. The Trust provides a supervision package combining individual, management and clinical supervision, continuing professional development and regular group psychotherapy meetings.

You will have a core qualification in clinical Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and experience in child and adolescent mental health, with an ACP registration.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist child psychotherapy service to children, young people, their families, or carers. In addition, to support 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 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 support the team with aspects of generic CAMHS work including contacting parents of young persons to respond to clinically relevant cases and to update care plans and risk accordingly.

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