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Job summary

Main area
Systemic psychotherapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
22.5 hours per week
Job ref
444-5780479A-CG
Employer
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Parkside House
Town
Coventry
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust logo

Systemic Psychotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team.   If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.

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Job overview

The post is 0.6  WTE and based in the Family Therapy Team, working alongside colleagues in specialist mental health services (RISE) as part of an integrated multidisciplinary service providing a child and family mental health service.

For those that are newly qualified Systemic Psychotherapists, or soon to be, we are able to offer a band 7 position with a 6 month preceptorship to band 8a.

The service provides short-term community based interventions; mid to long-term multidisciplinary interventions and long term specialist treatments and consultation to partnership agencies.

The postholder will provide specialist systemic therapy to young people and their families/carers. Part of the role will involve providing supervision and support to other members of the RISE team who are working with families.

The post may also include providing advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals, involvement in service planning and development, staff training and research and development if appropriate.

Clinical supervision (1.5 hours per month) will be provided by an appropriately qualified systemic psychotherapist within Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide a highly specialist systemic psychotherapy service, working autonomously within professional guidelines and service objectives.
  • To provide highly specialised systemic interventions drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models and as part of an agreed package of care, managed within the context of multidisciplinary working.
  • To work with complex and multifaceted clinical problems within an emotionally charged or difficult context
  • To design assessment and treatment interventions as appropriate which are delivered by other staff (e.g. nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists) under the post-holder’s supervision.
  • To contribute to multidisciplinary assessments, care planning, clinical reports and referral to other appropriate agencies / services if necessary.
  • To liaise and work with other members of the RISE service.
  • To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, child protection case conferences, reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary, and chairing certain meetings if appropriate
  • To provide advice, consultancy and, where appropriate, supervision to other practitioners who provide direct intervention in individual cases and with groups of client

Working for our organisation

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

  • generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
  • excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
  • salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
  • discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
  • wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
  • staff networks and support groups

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job specification for Systemic and family Psychotherapy for further information. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or equivalent in a professional field such as Social Work, Nursing or Clinical Psychology qualification
  • Successfully completed an AFT-accredited qualifying masters level course in systemic psychotherapy or who have met the equivalent criteria as laid down by the UKCP for ‘grandparent’ and ‘APEL’ qualification as systemic psychotherapists
  • Graduate-level qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and extensive post-qualification practice.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Extensive practice in relevant first profession.
  • Considerable experience of working with families in child and adolescent mental health services or equivalent experience.
  • Assessed experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
  • Demonstration of 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 full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sophie Wilkinson
Job title
Team Lead - Family Therapy Service
Email address
[email protected]
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