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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

We are looking for a Senior Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist to work as part of our specialist Family Intervention and Therapy Service (FITS) within Tameside and Glossop CAMHS, operating in close partnership with Children's Social Care. You will be an integral part of a team delivering trauma-responsive intervention for local families via professional consultation, training, reflective practice, and therapeutic pathways. Working alongside other psychological and systemic practitioners, you will facilitate multiagency consultation, develop and deliver training and implement multi-level therapeutic intervention for children and families in contact with Children's Social Care. There are extensive opportunities to contribute to service development and evaluation.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work as a highly specialist practitioner developing and implementing a community based therapeutic service to children, young people and their families with a particular focus on trauma and attachment, early intervention and prevention with high risk and vulnerable families (e.g. socially excluded families). The post holder will provide assessment and treatment of parents/carers and infants and their families grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

The training and strategic development aspect of the role involves acting as a specialist resource and contributing to multi-agency training of relevant professionals across Tameside. The post holder will be expected to offer consultation and clinical supervision to professional colleagues.

Please see Job Description for full details.

Working for our organisation

Targeted investment has enabled the creation of an innovative, relationship-focussed and trauma-responsive approach to the integration of specialist clinical skills within a quality family intervention service. The FITS clinical team of mental health professionals, work in partnership with Children's Social Care, while also maintaining strong links with core CAMHS. The aim is to ensure timely access to training, consultation, and intervention while simultaneously promoting trauma-responsive practice and supporting healthy relationships.

As a Trust, we are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Tameside and Glossop CAMHS are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including education, children's social care and the Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector and is striving to fully align to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of psychological practice. Tameside and Glossop CAMHS is also home to the Early Attachment Service which is a nationally recognised, specialist parent-infant mental health and under 5 service. As a department we facilitate placements for trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists.

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential and desirable criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

Person specification

Education/ qualification

Essential criteria

Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Doctoral level training as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by ACP.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with patient groups presenting high levels of complexity, including children, young people and their families.
Experience in psychotherapy assessment and therapeutic work with children, young people and their families/ parents/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
Experience of consulting with other professionals in Health, Education, Social Services and Local Authority.
Experience of representing child psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary and multi-agency treatment and care.
Experience of consultation to staff from other professional groups using psychoanalytic concepts

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in CAMHS and/or with trauma in children and young people, as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist.
Experience of Audit
Experience of research
Experience and knowledge of the developmental trauma
Experience of work or contact with adult mental health services.
Experience of teaching, training or supervision to other professionals

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Evidence of awareness of parental mental health in relation to child mental health matters, intergenerational trauma, developmental trauma and attachment.
Evidence of clinical supervision
Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people.
Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of child and adolescent psychotherapy, including highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytical theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics, neurodevelopment and trauma.
Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with children and young people, particularly in relation to the statutory framework around child protection.

Skills

Essential criteria

Skills in the use of psychoanalytical methods of assessment, intervention and management in work with children, and young people and families.
Skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others, especially with regard to highly complex families.
Evidence of a capacity to work collaboratively and flexibly in a multi-disciplinary team context.
High level of skill in assessing risk in the context of parent- child relationships.
Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicity from one's own.
Ability to demonstrate sensitivity in all contact with disadvantaged groups.
High level of ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to children, parents and carers and a wide range of professionals.
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 abuse and communicate in situations in which there may be barriers to the acceptance of communications.
Good organisational skills.

Work related circumstances

Essential criteria

Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

Job Description (PDF, 164.0KB)
Person Specification (PDF, 131.8KB)
Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pack (PDF, 588.9KB)
Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)

Senior Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Senior Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

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