Professional Lead: Child and Adolescent PsychotherapistNHS
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our Sussex CAMHS Services as the Professional Lead. This is an influential role that will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership within West Sussex CAMHS with some time dedicated to supporting with leadership more widely across Sussex CAMHS.
The Trust operates a model of care delivery which is led through joint operational and clinical decision making. This post will join other professional leads in ensuring quality of service delivery and support and growth of our workforce.
This role is right for you if you are motivated at the prospect of:
- Having the ability to influence the quality of care and wellbeing through a strong professional lead network.
- Raising the profile of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and supporting their growth and development.
- Wanting to ensure that the child's voice is at the centre of care delivery decisions.
The role is split into 50% clinical direct and indirect work and 50% leadership work.
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for Clinical Supervision of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and Professional Leadership of Psychological Professionals; supported Senior Psychological Profession colleagues across the service.
Overseeing the Psychological Professions workplan including increasing access to psychological therapies, enhancing outcomes for Young People and their Families, supporting inclusive and diverse practice, and staff well-being.
Promote clinical innovation and continual development of Psychotherapy practice, based upon evidence and relevant research.
Ensure excellence in clinical practice and service delivery is based on NICE guidelines, documents and guidance.
Ensure Psychological Professionals have mechanisms that enable compliance with Professional standards, ethics and regulation requirements.
Support/advise managers in developing supervision and act as a point of contact and resource on all professionally related issues.
Provide and deliver specialist advice and interventions for young people with complex needs, and their families, working closely with Managers to deliver a person-centred service, providing expert advice to patients, carers and staff.
This role includes Co-Chairing the Trust's Psychodynamic Network alongside an Adult Psychotherapist.
You will need a recognised Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy registration and ideally a supervisory qualification, some leadership experience and experience of clinical practice in a CAMHS setting.
Job description
Please refer to the attached Job Description for more information and full details regarding the main responsibilities and requirements for this role
About us
This is a great opportunity to join our friendly and dedicated North West Sussex Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Team.
At Sussex Partnership we provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex. You will make a real difference to improve the lives of children and adolescents, working with colleagues to provide a full range of outpatient and inpatient services and helping to manage transition between these and other services through outreach services.
We'd love you to join our Trust, an organisation rated 'Good' by the CQC and 'Outstanding' for caring, with a strong commitment to innovation, research, and continuous improvement.
We are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
If you haven't considered living or working in West Sussex before, here are some quick highlights:
- Travel easily from coast to countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, within minutes.
- Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London which are easily reached by local buses and mainline trains.
- Access renowned cycle routes and scenic walks like the South Downs Way in the national park.
- Explore miles of coastline, including West Wittering beach and Selsey.
- Gatwick and Heathrow airports are both under 90 minutes away for convenient travel.