Job summary
- Main area
- Systemic Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working outside of 9-5 may be required)
- Job ref
- 350-CC6405390
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Knowsley Recourse and Recovery Centre
- Town
- Whiston
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Systemic Practitioner
Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a Systemic Practitioner to be part of the Children and Young peoples Crisis Response Team.
We are looking for caring, family-focused, and dynamic clinicians who aspire to or have experience of working with young people in crisis and their families. The primary purpose of the Systemic Practitioner role is to provide systemic assessment, formulation and intervention to young people and their families, and to provide systemic guidance to the MDT . They will be a specialist resource and contribute to the teams systemic knowledge and clinical practice via training and upskilling.
Main duties of the job
The core purpose of the multi-disciplinary team in which the post-holder will work is to deliver high quality, formulation-driven interventions as part of the teams home treatment offer.
Flexible working is key to our service provision to support practitioners working where they can most effectively provide patient care across the patch.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification details the main duties & responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate body (i.e., Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Work, Registered General Nurse, OT, Psychology etc
- An AFT (Association Family Therapy & Systemic Practice) accredited – Level 2 Intermediate Systemic Training or an accredited CYP-IAPT Training in Systemic Family Practice
- Membership of AFT
Desirable criteria
- Supervision Qualifcation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Generic and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of parents and families across a range of ages
- Formulating and devising treatment plans for a range of presentations, including both short and long-term treatment approaches
- Skills in systemic practice / family assessment, formulation and intervention
- Knowledge and skill of using variety of systemic approaches e.g. social constructionist, narrative, solution focussed
- Skills in working systemically with individuals, couples, family, and groups
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service
- Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings
- Ability to offer advice, guidance, consultation and training to other professionals
- Substantial practice in relevant core profession
- Minimum 12 months experience of working as a systemic practitioner and embedding systemic skills in a clinical setting under supervision from Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Experience of MDT working
- Understanding of Adult/Child safeguarding issues
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy
- Knowledge and Skills of a range of models in the assessment and treatment of mental health including specific family and systemic theories and evidence base
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of child mental health
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection
Desirable criteria
- 2 years experience in either Adult or Child mental health
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service
- Working autonomously within community settings
- Know about different models of family work and evidence base for family therapy
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialist psychological therapy
- Attachment theory and relevance to parent / infant mental health
- Knowledge and experience of working with women and families in the perinatal period
- Have an interest in academic links and research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting
- Able to work flexibly and both case manage and work therapeutically
- Have respect for different disciplines and therapeutic approaches
- Holds a full UK driving licence
- Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations with clients and /or professionals
- Evidence continued leadership development
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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
- Alexandra Bellamy
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744415640
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