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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
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Our mission:
To improve the quality of life for people in Cheshire and Wirral by providing specialist health and social care services and support to individuals, families and communities affected by mental illness or learning disabilities.
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Closed for applications on: 13-Jun-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-Jun-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Pensby Clinic
- Address
- 281 Pensby Road
- Town
- Heswall
- Postcode
- CH61 5UB
- Major / Minor Region
- Cheshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Job overview
**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply please see attached document.
If this applies to you, please state this on your application so we can discuss this with you if you are invited to interview.
Wirral Community Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service (CYPMHS formally CAMHS) are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and flexible ACP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. We are interested in recruiting to full time hours (1.0 WTE) or substantive part time hours.
Wirral CYPMHS comprises: an Access Service (which includes Access and Mental Health in Schools provision); a 0-18 Team (a Multi-Disciplinary Team for children and young people who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, with a clinical offer which includes generic CYPMHS work, Psychiatry, Psychology, CBT, DBT, EMDR, IPT-A and Systemic Family Therapy and a specialist Eating Disorders Service. There are also Multi-Disciplinary LD/Neurodevelopment CYPMHS Team, and an Intensive Support Team (for CYP with Autism).
Applications from current CAPTs in training who are due to qualify this year are welcomed and will be considered.
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Child Psychotherapy is an established element of Service provision. The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists work closely together to offer psychodynamic assessments, brief, short-term and long-term psychotherapy, together with parent/carer work and psychodynamic family/relational work. There is scope to offer reflective practice, consultation and supervision, and for the postholder to develop an area of interest in line with Service need (e.g. STPP, consultation regarding looked after and adopted children, or Early Years work)
The Service offers placements to Clinical Trainees from NSCAP and part of the postholder’s responsibilities will be to hold the role of Service Supervisor (or actively move towards readiness for this). There is support for Service Supervisors to attend the CPD group facilitated by NSCAP as appropriate.
Applicants will also aim to comply with all service and trust requirements in terms of risk assessments, outcome monitoring, clinical records and learning.
Working for our organisation
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. A ‘Guide to completing your application form’ can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate diploma or Masters degree (pre clinical training as recognised by Association of Child Psychotherapists).
- Professional qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist as recognized by the Association of Child Psychotherapist, or a Trainee Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist having met all the training requirements for validation of qualification by the Training Council of the ACP.
- Full Membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (or, Trainee Membership and eligibility to apply for Full Membership upon qualification) (up to date full membership of ACP to be maintained)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years experience of assessment/intervention with children, young people presenting severe mental health problems and high levels of complexity (and their families) in a CAMHS setting.
- Experience of psychoanalytic assessment and therapeutic work with children, young people and families, parent/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
- Experience of consulting other professionals in Health education and/or Social Services.
- Experience of presenting clinical child psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people.
- Doctorate level (or equivalent) knowledge of child and adolescent psychotherapy, including highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytic theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with children and young people, particularly in relation to the statutory framework around safeguarding children.
- Experience of audit.
Expertise
Essential criteria
- Skills in use of psychoanalytic methods of assessment, intervention and management in work with children and families.
- Skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others.
- Capacity to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team context.
- Ability to work with people from different backgrounds cultures and ethnicity from one’s own.
- High level ability to communicate effectively (in written and verbal forms) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to children, young people and their carers and families, and a wide range of professionals within and outside of CAMHS.
- Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of psychical abuse, and communicate in situations in which there may be barriers to the acceptance of communications.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Higgs
- Job title
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 3157
No longer accepting applications
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