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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist  to join the HPFT CAMHS South team,.

You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS team covering the South quadrant of the county and have the opportunity to work alongside side other systemic psychotherapists,  child psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nursing and psychiatry. 

You will receive regular supervision and be part of the weekly family therapy clinic. You will also join a lively family and systemic psychotherapy discipline group across HPFT  with regular discipline meetings and CPD opportunities.

You will also have strong links with professional colleagues in the wider CAMHS. In addition to the inpatient unit, our CAMHS includes a Tier 4 Home Treatment Team, four community clinic Tier 3 teams, a Targeted Team for looked after children, a specialist Eating Disorder Team, a Crisis Team and a DBT team. Family & Systemic Psychotherapists are within most of these teams.   

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and 
consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with 
problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, 
providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to 
Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with Community 
CAMHS Managers and Professional leads. 

To contribute to the provision of a specialist systemic psychotherapy 
service within the quadrant, including being a member of a specialist 
family therapy team, undertaking particular pieces of work identified as 
requiring specialist systemic interventions, providing specialist systemic 
peer supervision to colleagues regarding systemic interventions, and 
providing occasional CPD to colleagues regarding systemic practice.

To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and 
adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the 
principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.

To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of 
families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. 
This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and 
their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties. 

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?