NHS Ayrshire & Arran
251708 - Assistant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
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About The Organisation
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
The Role
To Contribute As Appropriate To a Highly Specialist Psychoanalytic Child And Adolescent Psychotherapy Service To Infants, Children, Young People And Their Families Attending The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Working Autonomously Within Professional Guidelines And The Overall Framework Of The Department’s Policies And Procedures. This Includes
- Provide: psychoanalytically informed child and adolescent individual psychotherapy assessments; long-term non-intensive (once weekly) individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy; brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy; work with parents/carers.
- Joint work: initial team assessments; parent–infant psychotherapy, and brief work with infants/Under 5s and their families/carers.
- Contribute to Emotional State Assessments and reports.
- Undertake psychoanalytically informed observations of infants and children in home/nursery/school settings.
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Please note this is a fixed term post for 18 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.
In This Key Role, You Will
- The provision of psychoanalytical psychotherapy to children and adolescents in CAMHS in line with requirements as assessed by the team and supervised by the consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist. This may include:
- Clinical Work
- Observational Work
- Group Work
- Participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings and joint working with team members where appropriate, including team allocation meetings, team supervision.
- Contributing to case reviews, case discussions and liaising with other agencies as well as within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Participation in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy development and business meetings, including formal minute taking.
- Promotion of child and adolescent psychotherapeutic ways of working within the CAMHS Teams.
What You'll Bring
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- Academic Degree
- First professions training
- Extensive experience in working with children in a one to one therapeutic situation.
- Personal analysis
- Preliminary therapeutic skills modules working towards being accepted onto the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training.
What We Offer
As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
- Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Annual incremental salary progression
- Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
- NHS discounts and more.
NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.
For informal discussion, please contact Lynne Conway, Consultant Child Psychotherapist on Lynne.Conway@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Heather Lamont, Recruitment Administrator on heather.lamont@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
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