Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the multi-disciplinary NEH CYPS Community Team in Aldershot. The role involves providing specialist psychoanalytic psychotherapy and other interventions to children and young people with complex mental health needs. The post-holder will also contribute to service development, supervision, and teaching. This is a permanent, full-time position.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral Level ACP Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
- Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
Desirable criteria
- Additional trainings in adjunctive therapeutic models
- Professional experience working with children, adolescents and their families where children are experiencing complex mental health difficulties
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for child and young people's care within a mental health context
- Experience of clinical practice within NHS mental health services
- Experience of supervision and consultation
- Experience of completing routine outcome measures
- Experience of undertaking parent and child psychotherapy
- Experience of working with children of all ages and with parents
- Doctoral Level ACP Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
- Registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Additional trainings in adjunctive therapeutic models
- Professional experience working with children, adolescents and their families where children are experiencing complex mental health difficulties
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for child and young people's care within a mental health context
- Experience of clinical practice within NHS mental health services
- Experience of supervision and consultation
- Experience of completing routine outcome measures
- Experience of undertaking parent and child psychotherapy
- Experience of working with children of all ages and with parents
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Children and Young People's (CYPS) Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to join the well-established multi-disciplinary NEH CYPS Community Team. You will be based in Aldershot with an expectation to travel to Leatherhead or other bases if needed.
This post will be suitable for a highly motivated Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist interested in ensuring excellent psychological care is accessible for children and young people with complex mental health needs from diverse backgrounds. This is a permanent full time (37.5 hours) post. Applications are invited from Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists and to those currently in training who expect to become registered in 2026.
The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering specialist interventions for children and young people experiencing complex, chronic and/or severe mental health difficulties. The post-holder will provide evidence-based psychotherapy interventions. The post-holder will contribute to service-development through service-evaluation and audit, taking into consideration service-user participation.
All our staff have regular supervision and access to a wide variety of CPD opportunities.
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