Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Lead

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Psychological Medicine Service at UCLH as discipline lead for child and adolescent psychotherapy and in a senior leadership role in the service.

Children and Young people's Psychological Medicine sit within a large and busy paediatric and adolescent division at UCLH where mental health support and guidance is offered as part of the medical treatments children and young people receive for short- and longer-term health conditions.

The Psychotherapy team provides a range of assessments and psychotherapy interventions, including longer term and shorter term, treatment to children and young people (including young adults) within a variety of settings, including adolescent medicine, cancer and general paediatrics. In addition to direct therapeutic work, the post holder will contribute to the overall management of the service, supervise the child psychotherapists and other junior clinicians as well as deliver reflective practice to several staff groups across the trust., This is a senior role that is highly valued by the services across the division.

The post holder will contribute to wider service development as well as the smooth delivery of complex mental health services. This will include audit and research within the area served by Psychological Medicine.

The post holder will coordinate the referrals in and out of the psychotherapy team and support the organisational needs of the team including job planning and service delivery.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing), We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.


We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.