We have developed a part-time opportunity for either an 8a or a newly qualified B7 not yet meeting all requirements for appointment at Band 8a level. We value staff progression and would like to offer an exciting and rare opportunity to fund the Systemic Family Therapy Supervision, Consultation and Training Course that will allow for development of an in-team Family Therapy Clinic. We support ongoing study and development and highly value the key ideas of systemic thinking including the Social and consideration of multiple perspectives.
The Sutton Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) service provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties. We are an experienced and supportive team looking for a passionate Family therapist to join us.
The service also includes a Single Point of Access Service which manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Sutton where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties. The Sutton T3 service and the SPA work in close collaboration to ensure positive child and young person journey
Sutton CAMHS Tier 3 is a multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of thoughtful high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families entering the service with moderate to severe mental health problems and with high risk profiles.
We have an exciting specialist part-time opportunity for a Band 8a Family Therapist. We will also consider applications from newly qualified and recently qualified Family Therapist eligible to occupy the post at band 7 in a preceptorship role.
An applicant appointed to the band 7 preceptorship role will be supported through a preceptorship model that includes a professional and clinical development plan and for continuing professional development training. A Preceptorship Family Therapist will be supported to acquire the knowledge, skills and experience that meet the person specifications for the post at band 8a after a period of 24 months. Where these conditions are met the post holder will be expected to progress to band 8a subject to successful interview.
We are looking for a committed Family Therapist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.
This role is open to a qualifiedSystemic Family Therapistwith the following:
· Qualification asSystemic Family Therapistregistered withthe UKCP
· Experience of working with children and young people
· Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
· The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
· The ability to efficiently manage a caseload
· Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
· Development to 8A in preceptorship post will follow the trust’s Preceptorship Policy
Applications are invited from clinicians interested in joining this developing service.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey
Site: Sutton CAMHS, Jubilee Health Centre, East Building 2, 6 Stanley Park Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6
Clinical
1. To provide specialist assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young person’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological/systemic treatment and/or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy l and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to systemic formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.
8. To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to psychology/ psychotherapy and/or the service (as agreed with the team’s professional manager and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS Directorate’s common expectations for P&P staff.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide, professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant psychologists / psychotherapists, as well as contributing to clinical supervision of Band 6 and Band 7 staff working across the local and dedicated services, as appropriate.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching and training of staff, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorate’s operational policies and high quality responsive and accessible services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and Service Evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members in CAMHS.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
3. To undertake project management, e.g., audit or service evaluation, in line the CAMHS Directorate’s common expectations for P&P staff, and by agreement and under direction from the Team Manager with colleagues within CAMHS.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Mar 2025