Parenting/ Carer Pathway Lead

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Psychological Therapist with experience of supporting young people in Mental health Crisis and their families in the community to be part of the new CAMHS Intensive Community Crisis Service, developing across East London.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead on the development and implementation of a parenting/systemic formulation to facilitate evidence-based parenting interventions for families accessing support via the team. This relates to the dissemination of evidenced-based practices and coordination/provision of high-quality supervision and parenting skills development within the workforce. Part of the role will be to supervise CAMHS professionals who deliver parenting/systemic interventions.

The post holder will provide high-quality systemic assessments, evidence-based interventions, and consultation to client systems including children, young people, their families, carers, and professional networks. As a psychological therapy resource to the team, they will work collaboratively with CYP, families, and multi-disciplinary colleagues to formulate effective care plans of intensive community support and interventions for CYP.

About us

The East London CAMHS Intensive Community Crisis Service is a team developing across East London that, when fully established, will operate Monday-Sunday 09:00-17:00 and aim to provide the following for CYP based in City & Hackney, Newham, and Tower Hamlets:

• Multi-disciplinary support including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to CYP with serious mental illness where inpatient admission would otherwise be required or as part of supported discharge.
• Interventions and support provided by ICCS may be up for up to 8 weeks and include individual work, family work, psychiatric assessment, medication management, psycho-education, work on activities of daily living, multi-agency liaison, collaborative care planning, facilitated integration into community resources - as close to home as possible.
• Empower children and young people to recover from mental health crisis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to manage, plan, and prioritize their own clinical caseload and exercise a degree of autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and treatment, including management of risks. This is done independently within appropriate clinical/professional guidelines.

They will work closely with the Team Manager for ICCS and relevant colleagues to develop specialist training, teaching, and consultation in order to enhance systemic thinking and practice across the team and for the multi-agency professionals involved. They will support with the line management and clinical supervision of staff within EL Crisis Services as required, in line with People & Culture policies. They will contribute to wide team functions such as being part of service rotas including duty and being involved in service development work such as audits, quality improvement, and research and service evaluation.

The post holder will need to work flexibly across the three boroughs, based on the needs of CYP and their families. Appointments will be conducted according to these individuals and may take place in a variety of locations such as patient homes, local community settings, community CAMHS sites, or in inpatient wards when needed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate Level training in family/systemic psychotherapy Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body.
• Doctorate Level 6 year ACP accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy which includes a minimum of 4 years full-time clinical training and one's own intensive analysis. Full member of Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP).
• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, as accredited by the BPS/HCPC.
• UKCP Registration.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course 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 the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience in relevant first profession.
• Experience of working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context.
• Knowledge and experience with working with child protection issues and serious mental health problems.
• Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters.

Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of specialist systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems, and groups.
• Knowledge of and skill 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.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by UKCP/AFT guidelines.

Desirable

• Knowledge of adapting therapies for adolescents and presentations, including working with young people on the Autistic Spectrum.
• Working with victims of child sexual abuse and relational trauma.
• Working with looked after children.

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Across Newham, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets

Barking Road

London

E13 8AL

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