Highly Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed., The post would be suited to someone who is passionate about providing a high quality, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy service for children with severe and complex mental health problems, their carers/parents and families. The role involves offering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessments, state of mind assessments, and short, medium and long term specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment, alongside more generic and other specialist (e.g. neurodevelopmental) assessments and clinical work. Furthermore, we are looking for someone with an interest in supervision, and working with multidisciplinary and multi-agency colleagues on some of the challenges facing mental health services for children and young people.
The needs of young children and families will be at the centre of thinking about the service, and you will work together with service users and colleagues to ensure that the service best meets the needs of its population. West London is a culturally diverse borough and you will be involved in ensuring that the service is accessible and effective.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, skilled and innovative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Band 8a or Band 7-8a Preceptorship, 5 sessions) to join our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary Ealing CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. The post is for child and adolescent psychotherapists with a broad range of knowledge and experience of offering specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy alongside more generic skills, who will be able to maintain clinical curiosity, engage in reflective practice and advocate for children, young people and families' needs.
Ealing CAMHS has a strong multi-disciplinary approach and thrive on innovative practice to meet the local population needs of a culturally and economically diverse borough. You will be joining a well-established and welcoming child and adolescent psychotherapy team, which includes a Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and two trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. The team is committed to service improvement, staff well-being, and value diversity in our workforce. We have good links with training courses and regularly offer placements to trainees.
This post is advertised as Band 8a or Band 7-8a Preceptorship, so we welcome applications from trainees in the final year of training, those currently working on a Band 7 level already, or working on a Band 8a but wishing to take on a new challenge.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.