Family / Systemic Psychotherapist

We are looking for a newly qualified or about to qualify Family/Systemic Psychotherapist with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality interventions within a relational approach to Mental Health, with a strong interest in service development.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.

You will be part of a very comprehensive stepped care model of delivery by CAMHS ELFT services in the county, and be an integral part of a thriving and substantive specialist multi-disciplinary service offer.

E& B offers interventions within Getting More Help and Risk Support quadrants of the Thrive Model. This includes short to medium-term, and longer-term therapeutic work with children, young people and their parents. The interventions will range from group work, work with parental couple, consultations to professional network, training and other interventions within the CAMHS wider system. The team provides a strong learning environment in Family Therapy interventions, by running a Family Therapy Clinic, having placements for Family Therapy Trainees and offering consultations using the Family Therapy concepts.

The role will encompass clinical, professional and developmental aspects, requiring the post holder to work in close collaboration with colleagues. The post holder will help promote and maintain the role of the systemic Family Therapy Clinic within the team, and through development and supervision manage complex clinical presentations.

The post holder will provide generic input into the E& B (Emotional and Behavioural) Team. This will include professional and practice development, ensuring high quality client-centered evidence based care is delivered. The post holder will maintain high standards of care and practice and take on a greater range of clinical tasks to improve client care in the specialist CAMH service. The post holder will have access to clinical supervision and support across all the disciplines.

The post holder will provide input into a specialist child and adolescent mental health service to young people and their families who have complex mental health needs. The post holder will also play a central role in further development and implementation of care pathway within the team. The post holder will contribute to the Clinician of the Day (COD) rota as required to meet the needs of young people presenting in crisis, to support the service.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

The post holder will have access to CPD opportunities and will be supported to become an established CAMHS clinician able to provide competent and comprehensive mental health assessment, risk management plans, consultations and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.

We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.

Please find attached the job description and person/role specification.

For further details, please contact: Natalia Switon (natalia.switon@nhs.net), Helen Barker (Helen.Barker26@nhs.net), Miguel Massa (Miguel.Massa1@nhs.net)

Closing date for applications: 10th Nov24

Interview Date: Week of 25th Nov24

*We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward for this vacancy at any time should we receive an overwhelming number of applications. We therefore encourage applicants to apply early if you wish to be considered for this post.

• Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with UKCP.

• Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of 2 years or substantial previous relevant clinical experience or newly qualified systemic psychotherapist with both substantial and significant previous relevant clinical experience and family therapy experience within the designated speciality where the post is located.
• Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

• Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
• Experience of teaching, training & /or supervision.
• Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.

• Highly Specialist skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
• Highly Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical & /or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to work in inpatient/family settings, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the family-hospital system in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes.

• Experience in supervision of counselling or nursing. A short course in supervision would be desirable.
• Highly Specialist skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Highly Specialist skills in professional supervision skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.

• Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
• Masters/Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with systemic psychotherapy.
• Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
• Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the adults and mental health.
• Knowledge of current psychological evidence base and best practice in working with adults.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Charter House
Alma Street
Luton
LU1 2PJ

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