Job summary
- Main area
- Psychotherapy - CAMHs
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Needs to work Thursdays (Emotional Disorders Team) MDT)
- Job ref
- 333-G-CA-1423
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ash Tree Clinic
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,408 - £73,961 per annum (pro rata P/T) inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Band 8b) with generic & specialist CAMHS experience to work within a multi-disciplinary team in Harrow CAMHS.
This is a part-time (4 days /8 sessions) permanent post and is part of a well-established systemic discipline within the trust, where professional development and innovative work is actively encouraged.
Harrow CAMHS is a very warm & friendly team which welcomes new skills and new ideas. It is part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust. We are committed to collaborative multi-disciplinary work and there are very good links with partnership agencies in the borough.
The post will be supervised by the Consultant Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in Westminster CAMHS and line managed by the Harrow CAMHS Team Manager.
Harrow is a culturally diverse borough and we are keen to provide culturally appropriate services to families. We are looking for an enthusiastic systemic therapist who has good CAMHS experience and is able to integrate quickly into a busy CAMHS team.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist is to be the professional lead for the profession of systemic family psychotherapy and provide an active clinical role to compliment the range of psychological/therapeutic services within the multi-disciplinary service known as Harrow CAMHS. The services are intended to meet the complex mental health needs of young people up to the age of 18.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working for our organisation
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. Were always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide effective leadership to the systemic and family psychotherapists within the service and take responsibility for efficient, responsive systemic psychotherapy assessment and treatment services in co-ordination with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- To provide highly specialist systemic assessment of children and families presenting with significant and highly complex mental health and relationship issues, using appropriate interpretations and integration of complex information from a variety of other professionals
- To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the family with their differing developmental stages and current emotional state. This will include considering highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child and their difficulties.
- To evaluate and make decision about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes which has shaped the child and family.
- To work in ways which are sensitive to the highly complex needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family formations including single parent families, heterosexual married parents, blended families, same sex couples, accommodated and looked after children and their network of care, children who are on the child protection register and parents who have mental health problems.
- To be responsible for implementing a broad range of systemic family therapy interventions for children, adolescents and their families who are presenting with complexities in family relationships and mental health problems.
- To draw upon different explanatory models to maintain a number of provisional hypothesis and to collaboratively agreed treatment plans with the client system and colleagues.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management appropriate of the mental health presentations of the individual patient, including protective and risk factors presenting in the network of significant relationship.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate family therapy training to MSc level or equivalent.
- UKCP registration as family therapist
- Post-qualification training in additional CAMHS related specialised areas
- Post-qualification training in teaching and supervision of child family therapy
Desirable criteria
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience
- CYP IAPT training/Supervisor training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team
- Experience in supervising as Family Therapist
- Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisal
- Experience of developing and delivering bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical training to colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and training Systemic Family Therapy to other professionals
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A high level of skill in assessing the client system, and identifying and prioritising interactional patterns, family dynamics and context
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of psychiatric disorders and risk assessment.
Core Competencies
Essential criteria
- Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
- Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Use of Evidence based practice using NICE guidelines
- Use of outcome measures in assessments
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
- Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
- Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYPIAPT
- Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
- Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
- Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
- Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency Rota, peer support, training and skills development
- Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition for YP and their families.
- Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
Specialist Competencies
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking and supervising specialist family therapy assessment
- Experience of supervising generic and emergency assessment
- Extensive experience, knowledge and skills in the use of and supervision of family therapy intervention and management of children, adolescents and their families
- Experience of running parenting groups (triple p, mellow, Webster Stratton, etc) and other types of group work group such as multi- family group, EFFT
Desirable criteria
- Use of Systm1
Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
- Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
- Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sean McArdle
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist & Borough Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 869 4500
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