Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Development Post)

Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Development Post)

NHS

Southampton

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Southampton Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service has a great opportunity for a dynamic qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who has a passion for community CAMHS and innovative ways of working. This is a great opportunity to join our team in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Children & Families Service line to support in the delivery of high-quality children's mental health services.

This role will allow opportunity to contribute specialist systemic knowledge to the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate wider understanding of systemic issues and participate in a team approach to care planning and risk management.

This is a development role, with the opportunity to progress to a band 8a after 18 months.

Main duties of the job

As one of the members of the team, you will work alongside senior staff and contribute to the team's development, as we continue to strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. We welcome applications from candidates who can bring knowledge and skills to help us build on our success; to create a high quality, efficient and effective system to address demand and capacity issues and expertise in areas such as intake, assessment and brief treatment models and groups.

We are looking for committed, experienced and knowledgeable therapists with a passion for working with children, young people, and their families. The successful candidate will provide systemic assessment, treatment-planning and interventions for young people and their families, working independently and autonomously with an agreed caseload as well as working with other family therapists, systemic practitioners and wider team members and/or external agencies in order to facilitate the best possible outcomes.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice.
• Master's level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy and relevant post qualifying experience.
• UKCP Registration
• Post qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice.

Experience

• Extensive practice experience in relevant first profession.
• Significant experience of working with children, adolescents, and families in CAMHS or equivalent experience.
• Assessed experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of working with a range of child and adolescent mental health needs.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience of representing systemic psychotherapy within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

449-CFS-6829

Job locations

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre

£46,148 to £52,809 a year based on full-time hours