Here are brief details of current vacancies: week ending 24/07/2020.
 
Early notification of a permanent child and adolescent band 7 post

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Leicestershire Partnership Trust
Job Type: Permanent (0.8), job share and flexible working are a possibility
Salary: Band 7

Location: Leicester CAMHS

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1m people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic child and adolescent psychotherapist to work within an established and supportive child psychotherapy team in Leicester and Leicestershire Outpatient CAMHS.  The child psychotherapy team is a valued part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team and offers consultations, assessments and treatment to the young people and families in Leicestershire.  Regular supervision is provided in addition to fortnightly meetings with the child psychotherapy team (1 band 8b, 3 band 8as, 1 band 7 and two trainees), as well as CPD events and outpatient team meetings.

Leicester has good rail links with Birmingham (55min), London (65mins), Nottingham (25min) and Derby (20min). It is also easily accessible by car via the M1, M69, A6, A46 and A47. 

Leicester is a vibrant, diverse city with a great deal of history, culture and green parks. It is surrounded by beautiful countryside and has many attractive and very affordable towns and villages.

This job will be advertised on NHS website soon.  For further information please contact Dr Lynne Taylor by email to arrange a time to speak: Lynne.Taylor@leicspart.nhs.uk. Informal visits are also welcomed.
 
Infant Observation Seminar Leaders to join the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development - Expression of interest 

Employer: bpf and Birkbec
Job Type: Wednesdays from 6.45 – 8.00
Salary: £2,400 per year
Closing date: TBC

Location: BPF House in Kilburn in the first year, and at Birkbeck in central London in the second year.

The MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development, run jointly by the bpf and Birkbeck, is looking to recruit two child and adolescent psychotherapists to lead two infant observation groups respectively across two academic years starting in the Autumn term 2020.

Seminars take place weekly, term time, on Wednesdays from 6.45 – 8.00 pm at the BPF House in Kilburn in the first year, and at Birkbeck in central London in the second year.

The seminar leaders will be joining an established staff team and will have access to a pack of supporting resources to aid them with the task. The fee is £2400 per year.

For expressions of interest, please the course director at MSCPA@bpf-psychotherapy.org.uk
 
Team Manager for CAMHS LD Trauma Informed Service

Employer: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Fixed term (up to 18 months), 30 hours per week
Salary: Band 7 (£38 890 - £44,503 pa, pro rata.)
Closing date: 26/07/2020

Location: Fieldhead CAMHS, Bradford District

We have a very exciting opportunity here at Bradford Child and Adolescent Mental Health services for a Team manager role to lead and manage a new CAMHS Learning Disabilities trauma informed positive behaviour service across the Bradford, Keighley and Craven area. This Service will be working with young people aged 14-19 in the district who have a learning disability and who are at risk of developing complex long term behavioural and emotional needs due to exposure to complex trauma and/or multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

We are seeking an experienced clinician, ideally with operational management and clinical experience. The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, 22.5 hours per week 
Salary: Band 7 (£38,890 - £44,503 pro rata)
Closing date: 29/07/2020

Location: New Park House Horsham, Horsham

Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) are excited to invite applications for an ACP accredited child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist to join our community team at Horsham CAMHS. The committed multidisciplinary team work with children and their families aged 5 -18 with the full range of presenting mental health difficulties and includes child psychiatrists and psychologists, nurses, art psychotherapist and social workers.

The post holder will be responsible for receiving, assessing and allocating internal referrals for specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy at this locality clinic, and for providing treatment for some of the most complex children and young people. The local demographic includes families from both affluent and more economically deprived areas. There is also currently a significant child refugee and asylum seeking population.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, 22.5 hours per week (split over 3 days)
Salary: Band 7 (£38,890 to £44,503 pro rata)
Closing date: 29/07/2020

Location: Buckinghamshire

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist to join our well established multi-disciplinary team within the Getting More Help team in Buckinghamshire. The role involves working with young people with a range of complex presenting problems and their families. The work involves a mix of generic assessment, care coordination and risk management and individual psychotherapy assessment and treatment of children and young people. There are some cases where the STPP model is used.
 
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Clinical Psychologist / Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist / Systemic

Employer: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Job Type: Fixed term (12 months), Part Time 22.5 hours per week
Salary: Band 8a (£45,753 - £51,668 pa plus HCAS pro rata)
Closing date: 30/07/2020

Location: Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including high secure services, at Springfield Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with multi-agency colleagues in pursuing a proactive, Early Help agenda for families facing complex challenges. The post will have links to the local Sutton Single Point of Access (SPA) and CAMHS team for supervision and continued professional development. The post holder will have a varied role, including assessment and therapeutic intervention, as well as consultation to colleagues, multi-agency liaison and the opportunity to develop and deliver relevant training.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, Part Time 22.5 hours per week
Salary: Band 7 (£38,890 - £44,503 per annum pro rata)
Closing date: 31/07/2020

Location: Saffron Ground, Stevenage

The HPFT CAMHS service has been at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT, and Hertfordshire is both an i-Thrive accelerator and schools link pilot site. The HPFT CAMHS service includes four community based ‘tier 3’ teams, a crisis assessment/treatment team (C-CATT), an Eating Disorder Team, an inpatient unit (Forest House), and a Targeted Team for looked after or adopted children. We also have a Home Treatment Team and DBT service.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in HPFT CAMHS North Tier 3 Team, based in Stevenage, for an enthusiastic part-time Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. The successful candidate will have a keen interest in working collaboratively with children and their families and with partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for children and families in Hertfordshire. The successful candidate will have a role in offering core interventions as well as specialist psychotherapy interventions to children and adolescents and their families, as well as consultation to the team and professional networks.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Fixed term (18 months), 26.25 hours per week, 5-7 Sessions
Salary: Band 7 (£43,712 - £49,325)
Closing date: 02/08/2020 The closing date is now the 2nd of August, not the 8th as previously advertised

Location: London

We are looking for an energetic and flexible ACP Registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to continue and further develop our Therapeutic Outreach in Primary Schools service (TOPS) in a Newham Primary School and to offer clinical sessions in the multi-disciplinary team of Newham CAMHS Emotional and Behavioural Care Pathway and the Child Psychotherapy Team. Experience of work in schools and/or other non clinical settings is desirable.

The Emotional and Behavioural multi-disciplinary team at Newham CAMHS provides assessment and time limited episodes of care for children and young people referred with a wide a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and complexity. TOPS provides CAMHS assessment, parent consultation and once-weekly brief to medium term psychotherapy to children within the school setting. In addition to direct therapeutic work with children and parents, the post holder will be available to offer supervision and consultation to staff about children, and to develop other ways of supporting the schools pastoral work, such as delivering training to staff on aspects of child mental health and emotional and behavioural problems in the school setting.
 
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CAMHS Practitioner Tier 2

Employer: West London NHS Trust
Job Type: Permanent, 37.5 hours
Salary: Band 7 (£43,712 - £49,325 per annum)
Closing date: 03/08/2020

Location: Hounslow Tier 2 Schools, Hounslow

Hounslow Children’s commissioners have made some significant new investment into our CCAMHS (tier 2) team and we are pleased to have 1 new post to fill and one existing post to recruit to. 2 Band 7 permanent posts: 1.0 WTE; 0.8 WTE

This expansion of our team will ensure that we can continue to meet the needs of our service users in as timely and effective a manner as possible.

The team provides a proactive and creative intervention service for vulnerable children, young people and their families/carers and innovative work is actively encouraged.

There are very good links between Tier 2/3 including joint working. Hounslow is fortunate to have a Trailblazer team offering mental health support in schools, who tier 2 have close working links to.
 
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist / Specialist Practitioner

Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, 22.5 Hours/Week
Salary: Band 7 (£38,890 to £44,503 pa)
Closing date: 06/08/2020

Location: Liverpool

Alder Hey Mental Health Services are looking for a part time Psychotherapist within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Teams. This post will be based within the Sefton CAMHS team, at Burlington House, Waterloo.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly specialised and experienced Psychotherapist to join one of our teams.This is a challenging, busy role and requires dynamic and motivated individuals to lead and develop psychotherapy services at Alder Hey.

AlderHey has already earned our place as one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. We treat 250,000 young patients a year and have a broad range of hospital and community services, serving the local population of children, as well as being a tertiary referral centre for children from across Merseyside, Cheshire and parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Timeout Children’s Homes
Job Type: Permanent, Monday – Friday. 37.5 hours per week (Flexibility may be required) 
Salary: £37,570-£43,772 (Band 7 equivalent)
Closing date: 07/08/2020

Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire


Timeout Children's Homes is an independent organisation which provides therapeutic residential childcare for children aged 6 - 17 years who have suffered abuse and neglect in their lives. The current clinical team work closely with our Therapeutic Carers and our schools, building positive attachments and resilience, in order to restore more positive life trajectories.

An established clinical team is looking to recruit an experienced Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, primarily to provide direct work for Looked After Children with developmental trauma. The therapist should have extensive experience working with CAMHS (or an equivalent provision) and registration with the ACP; allowing them to work collaboratively with the Clinical team, Education and Care staff, and third parties to the organisation. The therapist will be offered an exciting opportunity to have a pivotal role within a new clinical service launching at the end of the year in a beautiful rural location on the outskirts of Hebden Bridge.

For a detailed job description and a person specification, please contact careers@timeouthomes.co.uk. To apply for the position, please submit your CV together with a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role to careers@timeouthomes.co.uk 
 
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Clinical Psychologist/Child Psychotherapist

Employer: Elysium Healthcare
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Band 8a (£37,570 - £48,240)
Closing date: 07/08/2020

Location: Rhodes Wood Hospital, Hatfield

Join us at Rhodes Wood Hospital as an experienced Clinical Psychologist/Child Psychotherapist and begin a rewarding career, where you can make a difference to some of the most vulnerable people in society. You’ll enjoy support from a regional network of psychologists, working alongside the team at Rhodes Wood Hospital. You will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working, risk assessments, facilitate staff reflective practice sessions, and design and deliver training.

You will provide clinical psychology input to the multidisciplinary eating disorder team which forms part of the service and to contribute to the provision of a comprehensive high quality clinical psychology service across the unit. You will include clinically related research and development, as well as clinical measurement and audit. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s to follow unit’s policies and procedures. There is a requirement to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and the unit.
 
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Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Consultant Psychological Therapist

Employer: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, 30 Hours per Week
Salary: Band 8c (£61,777 to £72,597 pa, pro rata)
Closing date: 09/08/2020

Location: Bradford

Bradford District Care Foundation Trust is eager to recruit a part time (0.8wte) professionally accredited Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Consultant Psychological Therapist to take clinical lead responsibilities for the Psychological Therapy Services working across Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services covering the Bradford, AireWharfe and Craven localities.

There will be a significant governance role ensuring the safe and effective practice of all psychological practitioners (Clinical Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Child Psychotherapists, Art & Play Therapists, Systemic Family Therapists) working across the 2 CAMHS sites in Bradford & Keighley. This encompasses both direct work with service users and indirect support of the MDT, via training, consultation and supervision of other workers psychologically informed practice. The trust is committed to ensuring all practice in all service areas is trauma informed.
 
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Band 7 (£38,890 - £44,503 per annum)
Closing date: 10/08/2020

Location: Hoddesdon Health Centre, 79 High Street, Hoddesdon

The HPFT CAMHS service has been at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT, and Hertfordshire is both an i-Thrive accelerator and schools link pilot site. The HPFT CAMHS service includes four community based specialist child and adolescent mental health teams, a crisis assessment/treatment team (C-CATT), an Eating Disorder Team, Inpatient Unit (Forrest House) and a Targeted Treatment Team for looked after or adopted children.

The successful candidate will have a role in offering core interventions as well as specialist psychotherapeutic interventions to children and adolescents and their families. They will working alongside more senior psychotherapists, both within the team and county wide, who are committed to supporting professional development. The post holder will attend regular county wide psychotherapy meetings.

The successful candidate must be eligible (or become eligible within the next 3 months) for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. We welcome applications from people who are due to qualify in 2020.
 
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Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Employer: Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Band 7 (£45,780 - £51,393 per annum inclusive of HCAs)
Closing date: 10/08/2020

Location: Tavistock Center, 120 Belsize lane, London NW3 5BA, London

The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist all age, outpatient only mental health Trust with a focus on Training and Education alongside a full range of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Psychological Therapies.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established highly specialist multidisciplinary team working with children and adolescents experiencing difficulties with their gender identity development. The service has two centres in London and Leeds, and outreach centres in Bristol and Birmingham. Due to an increase in referrals an opportunity has arisen for clinical posts in the Gender Identity Development Service for Children and Adolescents (GIDS).
 
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Psychodynamic Child Therapist/Psychotherapist

Employer: The Bridge Foundation 
Job Type: 46 weeks a year
Salary: pro rata equivalent to £32,152 p/a FTE
Closing date: 14/08/2020

Location: ,The Bridge Foundation, 13 Sydenham Road, Bristol BS6 5SH
 
The Bridge in Schools is expanding and looking for a suitably qualified and experienced therapists to join a lively, experienced team of clinicians. The team provides specialist services to children, families and staff in a range of local schools. It is an excellent opportunity to bring mental health expertise to the heart of the local community. We have up to 7 days per week work in schools across Primary, Secondary, and SEN provision. Different combinations of hours will be possible and available from September. 

The work includes:

  • Work with the school to develop effective emotional/learning support strategies in school
  • Supervision of teaching and support staff
  • Classroom observations and assessment
  • 1:1 school-based therapy for children and young people
  • Family work; work with parents; liaising closely with school staff
 
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School and Outreach Clinical Staff - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist/Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychotherapist 

Employer: Brent Centre for Young People
Job Type: Two Part Time Posts (14 and 24 hours per week) 
Salary: £32,525 to £37,570 per year (pro rata) according to qualifications and experience 
Closing date: 16/08/2020

Location: 51 Winchester Avenue, London 

This is an opportunity for a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist or Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychotherapist to join the Brent Centre and its Schools and Outreach Service. 

The appointed applicant will be required to provide assessment and psychotherapy to adolescents at Brent primary and secondary schools, staff consultation, supervision and support. There will be a possibility to provide short and long-term psychotherapy and family consultations (according to qualifications and experience) at Laufer House according to funding. 

Please click here for the vacancy advert and job desciption.
 

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner

Employer: NHS Professionals - Flexible Workers
Job Type: Bank
Salary: Band 7; Days: £21.96, Saturdays/Nights: £28.23, Sunday/Bank Hols: £34.51
Closing date: 28/09/2020

Location: Croydon

Join the bank for flexibility in how you work.

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS. 

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

Register today for various flexible working options and long term placement opportunities.
 
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Part time Child Psychotherapists

Employer: The Therapeutic Consultants (Group Practice)
Job Type: Self employed
Part-time: Monday or Wednesday evenings 4-8 or Saturdays in N7; Monday 4-8 in NW1; Saturdays in Burgess Hill
Salary:  TBC
Closing date: Ongoing

Location: Holloway, N7; Primrose Hill, NW1; Burgess Hill, Sussex

TTC is a group of private practitioners working together as a multi-disciplinary team.  We focus mainly on children and families but also work with adults.  We currently include adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, adult therapists a family therapist and many child psychotherapists.   We receive wide-ranging referrals, which include assessments, long-term work, short-term work, court assessments or mediation, etc.  We often have the opportunity to carry out joint work with two therapists working with different members of the family or two clinicians together carrying out in-depth assessments. 
 
Our clinic in Manor Gardens is particularly busy at the moment and we are looking for child psychotherapists who would be able to take on between 2-6 clients on a Saturday.
 
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MATS Clinicians

Employer: Capstone Foster Care
Job Type: Self employed contractor
Salary:  £60.00 - £80.00 per hour
Closing date: Ongoing

Location: National (North, Midlands, South East, South West)

Capstone Foster Care have developed a Multidisciplinary Assessment & Treatment Service (aka MATS) which provides assessment, consultation and treatment to children and young people looked after in their fostering services. MATS is led by an employed Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and the team will comprise Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Educational Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy and Clinical Nurse Specialists.
 
Team members are self employed and are commissioned to undertake specific pieces of assessment and intervention. 
 
We are looking for suitably qualified and experienced clinicians to join the team. Work is likely to be infrequent initially until the service is developed in a new area but could include undertaking clinical support to the foster carers and to the professional network, as well as undertaking specialist assessment of the child or young person and offering direct intervention. This is a unique, multidisciplinary service working in an adaptive and responsive way, to support children and young people within their foster family.
 
To apply or for further information please contact: capstonerecruitment@handoverhr.co.uk
 
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