Parent-Infant Psychotherapist and Adolescent Psychotherapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a compassionate and creative ACP Registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and/ or Parent-Infant Psychotherapist to join the service at Newham CAMHS, to provide specialist assessment and treatment of young people 0-18 and their families.

We are seeking to recruit to 1.0 WTE (10 sessions) within CAMHS. We will consider those looking for full-time roles as well as those interested in job share.Experience of working with parents and their infants is essential.

The role encompasses clinical work across both the generic Emotional and Behavioural and the Child Psychotherapy teams within the service. As a member of the Emotional and Behavioural MDT you will provide psychotherapeutic assessments of referred children and adolescents, parents or carers. You will assess the most appropriate treatment for them in co-operation with other members of the multidisciplinary service, including where appropriate, suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which you will also deliver. Newham CAMHS's Under 5s provision sits within the Emotional and Behavioural Team and uses a psychotherapeutic approach.

You will work as part of the well-established Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service which currently sits within the Child Psychotherapy team in order to provide a specialist perinatal assessment and treatment service within Newham CAMHS. Its purpose is to increase our ability to work with families where there are attachment concerns, risk of trauma or experience of trauma using evidence-based interventions and current best practice in this field.

The post-holder will help build upon the existing link with perinatal services in Newham, with CAMHS and other local maternity and Early Years services, including via the new Family Hubs, building strong working relationships with colleagues working with parents and infants in the borough.

The post-holder will contribute to the development of the service, provide teaching, consultation and training, contribute to research and audit and be accountable for their own professional actions and work within professional ethics and Trust policies.

It is recognised that a Tier 3 service addressing the psychological and emotional health of infants and parents requires highly specialist skills; the capacity to work with primitive mental processes in both parent and infant is pivotal to the work.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Please note that membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists is an essential requirement for this post.