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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.

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Address: HR Department; Trust HQ, Redesmere; Countess of Chester Health Park; Liverpool Road; Chester; Cheshire; CH2 1BQ
Contact Number: 01244 393100

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Ref: 373-CYP1330-C RR Vacancy ID: 7212392

CYP Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 8a - 8b

Accepting applications until: 04-Jun-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 04-Jun-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Elm House
Address: Lea Bank Close
Town: Macclesfield
Postcode: SK11 8HE
Major / Minor Region: Cheshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 26.25 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £53,755 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8b)

Specialty

Main area: CYP Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 8a - 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, 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 think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: [email protected] or by calling 01244 393100.

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.

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 £16 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.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate diploma or Master’s degree (pre-clinical training recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists).
• Professional qualification as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (doctoral-level training or equivalent).
• Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapist (up to date full membership of ACP to be maintained)

Desirable criteria

• Post qualification training in clinical supervision.
• Relevant post- qualification training for specialist clinical, research, professional teaching/supervision or equivalent.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE

Essential criteria

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of child and adolescent psychotherapy, including psychoanalytic theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics and models of intervention and practice.
• A minimum of 4 years post-qualification experience of working in the role of a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist offering psychoanalytic clinical assessment/intervention with children/young people presenting severe and complex difficulties (and their families, parents/carers) in a CAMHS (or equivalent) setting.
• Substantial/extensive experience of psychoanalytic assessment and therapeutic work with difficult, disturbed and challenging children and young people (and their families, parents/carers) requiring skilled and complex psychotherapeutic understanding and interventions.
• Experience of holding responsibility for the service supervisor role for child and adolescent psychotherapist(s) in clinical training
• Extensive/substantial experience of working with professional networks and awareness of issues for networks and teams.
• Extensive/substantial experience of providing consultation and support to professionals in health, education and/or social care.
• Significant experience of representing child and adolescent psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
• 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 CYPMHS
• Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people and to mental health (including safeguarding procedures) and its implications for clinical practice.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of designing and implementing audits.
• Experience of supervising and/or facilitating development of qualified child psychotherapists.
• Post-qualification experience in developing a relevant area of special interest (eg, early years, application of STPP, consultation re looked after children).
• Experience of contributing to service developments.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to children, young people and their families and to a range of professionals within and outside the NHS.
• Capacity to communicate clearly with a wide-range of multidisciplinary team colleagues.
• Well-developed skills in the use of complex psychoanalytic methods of assessment, intervention and management in work with infants/children/ young people, parents/carers and families.
• Highly-developed skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others.
• Capacity to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team context.
• Ability to assess risk, manage risk and make complex judgment about risk issues.
• Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicity from one’s own.
• 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 physical aggression, and to communicate in situations in which there may be barriers to the acceptance of communications.
• Capacity to prioritise complex tasks and organise workload to meet Service User and service needs.

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Tim Smith
Job title: Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01625 712042
Additional information: If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact [email protected] or telephone 01244 393100