To lead on the provision of child psychotherapy services within City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS and to provide child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapy alongside generic work within the service to young people and their families.

The post holder will take a senior role in line managing and supervising the psychotherapy team and other disciplines and will possibly contribute to reestablishing our psychotherapy trainee programme. This is a community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural Pathway (E&B) offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, specialist CAPT assessments and treatments including STPP and brief psychotherapy work, including group-work and possibly being the City and Hackney Sp CAMHS group offer lead.

The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. The postholder will be in the E&B Team 3 days a week. The post holder will play a direct role in Quality Improvement (QI) and audit projects as necessary.

Main duties of the job

1) Will provide a senior highly specialist child psychotherapy service to clients of the City and Hackney CAMHS, providing specialist child psychotherapy assessment and treatment including STPP and offering advice and consultation to non-psychotherapist colleagues and to other non-professional carers from a variety of psychoanalytic, childhood psychosocial developmental and mental health perspectives.

2) Will offer supervision to both child and adolescent psychotherapists and other disciplines/therapists who require psychodynamic supervision

3) Will provide line management to other disciplines

4) Will contribute to the development of the psychotherapy trainee programme within the service

5) Will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures:

6) Will participate in research and audit, and contribute to policy and service development and research.

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.