Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Milton Keynes, MK6 5AZ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Aug 2026
Closing date:	20 Aug 2026

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Summary

Provide highly specialist psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapeutic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/ young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings Be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, grounded in the principles and techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. These will include long and short term interventions as appropriate to need Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans Provide highly specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young peoples formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan

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