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Job overview
The Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Team are seeking a Systemic Practitioner (7.5 hours per week 0.2 WTE) to join our friendly and compassionate Liverpool & Sefton Specialist Perinatal Team, working within Liverpool and Sefton. This is part of our wider Cheshire and Merseyside Specialist Perinatal Service.
Their role will be to provide specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention within a multi-disciplinary team to women experiencing mental health difficulties whilst pregnant and up to 2 years post-delivery, and the network around them. This will also include women who have experienced perinatal trauma and loss.
Main duties of the job
Their role will be to provide specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention within a multi-disciplinary team to women experiencing mental health difficulties whilst pregnant and up to 2 years post-delivery, and the network around them. This will also include women who have experienced perinatal trauma and loss.
They will provide systemic advice, guidance, joint work, consultation and training within the multi-disciplinary team under supervision from a qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and registered supervisor. They will be a specialist resource and contribute the teams systemic knowledge and skills via case reviews, joint work and clinical meetings.
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 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
1. To undertake thorough specialist systemic assessments of women referred to the team. This includes the gathering of appropriate information from the family, utilising a range of systemic methodologies (e.g., interactional patterns, levels of context) and from other professionals and agencies.
2. To provide a specialist level of systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with women in the perinatal period and their families. This includes delivery of a range of systemic skills and techniques to individuals, couples, and families, in the context of professional and wider social systems.
3. To undertake risk assessment and the management of risk following an act or intent of deliberate self-harm.
4. To hold a complex caseload and to exercise autonomy within supervisory and managerial structures for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
5. Following assessment, in conjunction with the patient and family when appropriate to derive a clinical formulation and treatment plan and communicate this in writing to the referrer and other professions within limits of confidentiality.
6. To directly implement a variety of systemic skills as appropriate to client needs and to the level of systemic qualification held including couples, co-parenting and family interventions.
7. To provide advice, guidance, and consultation to other team members as appropriate in groups or on an individual basis, drawing upon systemic theory, knowledge and evidence base as in line with the level of systemic qualification held and core professional qualification.
8. To provide systemic intervention under the supervision of a clinical Family and Systemic Psychotherapist supervisor and to work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
9. To identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues within procedures set down by trust and local child protection committee.
10. To observe professional confidentiality in all matters relating to your work.
11. Establish and maintain good relationships and clear communication with other local agencies [e.g., Social Services, Midwives, Health Visitors and GP].
12. To facilitate collaboration and joint working with other relevant professionals.
Education/Training
13. To participate in service and team reviews, in line with Trust, Directorate Needs
14. To participate in appropriate training courses, talks and seminars to other disciplines and organisations, statutory and non-statutory.
15. To participate in regular systemic clinical supervision from a qualified Family Therapist and other relevant supervision from senior professional colleagues including the team manager, team clinical lead and team clinical psychologist.
16. To provide consultation, advice and training as appropriate to professionals outside of the team as in line with the level of systemic qualification held and core professional qualification.
Administration
17. To maintain up-to-date comprehensive clinical notes and prepare formal documents such as letters, reports and summaries.
18. To record and submit statistical information as required by the service. Statistical information will be to both local for team information or to the Trust data collection system.
19. To ensure administrative tasks are completed within the time scales set down in service protocols.
20. To attend and participate in team referral meetings, business meetings, supervision and support meetings.
21. To contribute to the formulation and evaluation of policies and the development of ideas for changing policies as appropriate.
Clinical Governance
22. To participate in team evaluations, team reviews and risk assessments.
23. To participate in audit meetings as set down by team, to contribute to team projects such as audit, evidence-based practice, research.
24. To assist in ensuring that all practice is both clinically safe and can show evidence of evidence-based practice.
25. To assist in any research projects running or set up within local team, directorate or Trust.
26. To participate in team initiatives to ensure quality of service e.g., client satisfaction questionnaires.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 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
* Supervision Qualification
Experience
* 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.
* 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
Knowledge
* 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.
Other
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* 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
* 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
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