Job summary
- Main area
- Family Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Mon-Friday)
- Job ref
- 310-CYPF-6327903
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Winchester Place
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Systemic Family Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
THIS IS A FIXED TERM CONTRACT FOR 12 MONTHS
We are excited to recruit to a Band 7 Systemic Family Therapist to join the team in Peterborough Core CAMHS. This role requires you to work alongside our Lead Family Therapist in delivering individual family therapy assessment and intervention, as well as family therapy clinic.
To provide a qualified systemic family therapy service to clients and families of Peterborough Community CAMHS across all sectors of care. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders within the Core team.
This role will require seamless working with the local MDT, the wider CAMHS service and other professional agencies such as Acute trusts, the Local Authority Social Care and Education.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions.
The post holder will be responsible for this process by researching new practices, understanding and applying evidence-based approaches both in relation to family treatments and in the involvement of service users and carers.
The post-holder will be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients’ care to all colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.
The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To be a member of the multi-disciplinary team within CAMHS and to proactively contribute to and participate in the provision, governance and ongoing development of the services provided.
To undertake detailed and systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team. This will involve working face to face contact or remote with children and families/carers to discuss and work through highly complex, sensitive and personal information related to their mental health presentation. This would also include the completion of personal and relational development, genograms, eco-maps, analysis and assessment of multiple levels of contextual meaning, deconstruction of current interactional patterns of behaviour and meaning around mental health issues and complex relationships, creating methods for client centred analysis of change through the use of live team observations/ interventions, video recording and video recording analysis, relevant questionnaires and creative methods, and other systemic assessment tools.
To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
To provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
Work autonomously with professional guidelines and within the multidisciplinary team.
To deliver and complete clinical work across a range of contexts within out-patients and in ways that are flexible and focused on the needs of the young person and their family/carers.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/ social welfare profession and demonstrable practice
- Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with the UKCP
- Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long training courses to meet AFT CPD requirements
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive practice in relevant first profession
- 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
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and families with complex mental health problems
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community and residential or educational.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to create sustainable working alliance with service users, families, colleagues and other professionals
- Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration; ability to carry those out in crisis situation
- Ability to multi-task at different levels of context, while leading a systemic psychotherapy session requiring intense concentration and skills for using a one-way screen, video equipment and involving members from different professional background in service delivery simultaneously.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to adolescents, social care and mental health
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing/conflictual views about those difficulties, and the ability to address and tackle ethical dilemmas
- Participate in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care
- Ability to recognise and challenge discrimination
Desirable criteria
- Personal experience of coping with life stressors
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex teaching and training methods, and multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to write and submit papers to peer reviewed journals
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Charlton
- Job title
- Team Manager North Core CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 555 5810
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