Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 050-PST040-0425
- Employer
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Conwy CAMHS
- Town
- Llandudno
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Band 8b
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme. We also offer a number of family-friendly benefits, including work-life balance policies.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Specialist mental health services for children and young people age 0-18 years living in North Wales are delivered by five multi-disciplinary community teams covering six Local Authority areas and one regional inpatient service which includes an intensive community outreach team. Assessment, formulation and treatment using evidence based psychological therapies are offered via all teams.
Some children and young people with severe and complex psychological disorder require additional highly specialist psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The post holder will deliver the modality in two areas (Bangor, covering the local counties of Gwynedd and Anglesey and in either Llandudno or Rhyl, covering Conwy and Denbighshire) and offer highly specialist clinical expertise, consultation and advice.
The post holder will take a lead role in liaising with training schools and the Association of Child Psychotherapy (ACP), with the aim of developing modules of a Pre-Clinical Training/ Infant Observation study option including work discussion seminars in North Wales.
We are committed to further development opportunities in North Wales, please don’t hesitate to make contact if you would like to explore the possibility of a development post (8a-8b). We would be very pleased to hear from you.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Interviews will be held in May 2025.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of colleagues including Psychiatry, Psychology, Family Therapy, Nursing, Social Worker and Occupational Therapy colleagues. Clinical supervision will be provided by the Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. There is demonstrable commitment to ongoing staff training:
To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy assessment and time limited treatment service for children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems.
To act independently and use own initiative within appropriate occupational and clinical guidelines; deciding where necessary to refer to the professional lead and/or Service Manager.
To take referrals directly from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service teams and work in collaboration with families, carers and referrers and other professionals.
To provide advice and consultation from a psychodynamic perspective on psychological care to multidisciplinary team colleagues and where relevant to other, non-professional carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service policies and procedures across both areas.
To provide supervision and consultation, develop and deliver agreed training to the clinical psychology training programme at Bangor University, staff within all Wales CAMHS, and from related agencies.
Working for our organisation
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
We are proud to announce a new full-time post for ACP Registered Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists at or approaching Band 8b, in North Wales CAMHS.
You will also be part of a small but dynamic group of psychotherapists across Wales, working with the NHS Wales Executive and Health Education and Improvement Wales in helping to shape the future of mental health support for infants, children and young people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
- Fully recognised professional qualification as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist (as recognised by the Association of Child Psychotherapists) including pre-training requirements: Honours degree PG Diploma or MA or equivalent in pre-clinical observational studies.
- Evidence of active involvement in Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- A professional qualification in a relevant regulated profession eligible under the Mental Health Measure (Wales) 2010 e.g., nursing, social work, medicine, clinical psychology.
- Additional relevant academic and/or accredited therapeutic qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working with patient groups presenting high levels of complexity including looked after and adopted children.
- Substantial experience of working as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in CAMHS.
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in additional settings e.g., education, or social care.
- Substantial experience in psychotherapy assessment and therapeutic work with children, young people and families, parents/carers with a full range of presenting problems.
- Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with children and young people, particularly in relation to the statutory framework around child protection and Looked After Children.
- Substantial experience of consulting with other professionals in Health, Education and/or Social Services.
- Substantial experience of consulting to staff from other professional groups using psychoanalytic concepts.
- Substantial experience of working with young people who present with risky behaviour towards themselves and/or others.
- Experience of representing the child psychotherapy modality within the context of multidisciplinary and multiagency treatment and care.
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people.
- Highly developed knowledge of psychoanalytical theories and models of development, psychopathology, family and institutional dynamics.
- Knowledge of recent developments in child psychotherapy, including the use of outcome measures and applications of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in CAMHS and/or with Looked After Children, prior to training as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist.
- Experience of providing teaching, training or supervision to other professionals.
- Experience of audit.
- Experience of research.
- Experience of service development.
- Completion of service supervisor training.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of psychoanalytical methods of assessment, intervention and management in work with children and families.
- Skills in co-working, liaison and consultation with others, especially with regard to highly complex patients, including looked after children.
- High level of ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbally) complex, technical and clinically sensitive information to children, young people, their carers and families, and a wide range of professionals within and outside of CAMHS.
- Evidence of a well-developed capacity to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team context.
- Ability to plan and implement workload without direct supervision.
- Good interpersonal skills and evidence of ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures, and heritage from one’s own.
- Ability to demonstrate sensitivity in all contact with disadvantaged groups.
- Ability to work with complex agendas and work across more than one organisation.
- Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of very emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to communicate in situations in which there may be barriers to the acceptance of communications.
- Basic IT skills i.e., knowledge and experience of using Microsoft Office packages.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel within the geographical area.
- Commitment to maintain confidentiality of clinically sensitive materials and information and to handle personal information with sensitivity and discretion.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tanya Leonard
- Job title
- Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Sara Hammond-Rowley
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
North Wales Strategic Lead for Child Psychology and Psychological Therapies
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