Under 5s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The Brent Harrow Hillingdon Under 5s CAMHS Team is a new service, commissioned to provide brief parent-infant and parent-child psychotherapy to families with babies and young children in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. It is an expansion of the successful Under 5s CNWL service that operates in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. The team is multi-disciplinary, though run as a psychoanalytic service.
We are looking for an ACP accredited child psychotherapist with an experience of and passion for Under 5s work. You will be part of embedding our service in Hillingdon Children’s Centres, making relationships with families and local stakeholders. You will offer brief psychotherapy to families and consultation to professionals and parents. The opportunity to retain clinical work with latency and adolescent cases is available through the child psychotherapy service in Hillingdon CAMHS. We accept and encourage applications from people qualifying in Summer 2024.
Hillingdon is a vibrant and varied borough, with excellent transport links via the Elizabeth, Piccadilly and Metropolitan line. There is a weekly team meeting with all staff members from across the tri-borough service.
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The role involves a creative and passionate approach to service development, and offers the opportunity of being part of a pioneering initiative. We are looking for clinicians with sound understanding of infant mental health, and who are open to growing and developing in this field. As this is a brand-new service, we are looking forward to growing and developing together with you.
We are advertising a 0.8 (4 days/week) band 7 post for the Borough of Hillingdon. The post holder will be based within Hillingdon CAMHS team and in one of the local Children’s Centres.
The service aims to provide an accessible, destigmatising, culturally sensitive infant/young child mental health perspective through:
consultation to parents and professionals
specialist assessment
6 session brief work with Under 5s and their families, using evidence-based treatment
interagency partnership working
teaching and training in infant mental health and early attachment.
The Child Psychotherapist role requires a motivated, organised and enthusiastic professional interested in supporting a lively Under 5s clinical team. They will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team undertaking clinical functions in line with their clinical expertise to implement the project under the guidance of the Band 7 Child Psychotherapist and Lead of the project.
If you are interested and would like more information, please call Claudia de Campos, Under 5s Service Lead.

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist early intervention psychotherapy assessment and treatment service for children Under 5 and their families with
highly complex and persistent infant mental health problems and presentations beyond ordinary developmental expectations, their carers/parents and families within care pathways as relevant.
To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of families with children Under 5 with complex infant mental health presentations, developmental and emotional difficulties.
To offer consultation, teaching and training on infant mental health and attachment to multidisciplinary colleagues
To contribute to audit and research.
To actively engage in outcome monitoring, including the use of normed routine outcome measures associated with CYP IAPT
To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework of the CAMHS Directorate’s and the Trust’s policies and procedures