Paediatric Renal Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist)
Main area: Child Health
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 6 months (6 months secondment)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 188-CL520125
Site: University Hospital Southampton
Town: Southampton
Salary: £53,755.00 - £60,504.00 Per Annum (PA) Pro Rata
Closing: 14/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 13/03/2025
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
Southampton Children’s Hospital is looking for a Systemic and Family Psychotherapist to provide a specialist therapy service to Children and Young people with kidney disease as well as providing support to their families and developing the family therapy service to meet the needs of children and families in other sub-specialities across the hospital.
This post will work closely with the Paediatric Nephrology, CAMHS and child psychology teams and other outside agencies. The post will also support teaching for multi-disciplinary staff in the broader concepts of systemic therapy.
The paediatric nephrology service is a regional service that cares for young people across the Wessex area. The paediatric nephrology team consists of consultant paediatric nephrologists, clinical nurse specialists, youth workers, dietitians, and pharmacist colleagues. The Children’s Hospital has a haemo-dialysis unit and provides pre and after care for renal transplant patients. Input to families will be across a variety of settings, inpatient, on haemo-dialysis and out-patient. The post-holder may be expected to attend external multi-disciplinary meetings and help develop the family therapy service across child health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What you’ll do:
1. Work as a highly specialist systemic psychotherapist as an integrated member of the paediatric nephrology team.
2. Provide specialist systemic family therapy assessments of children and young people with kidney disease and their families who may be experiencing severe, complex and persistent physical and mental health problems. Implement specialist systemic interventions as required in an outpatient and in-patient setting.
3. Hold 1:1 clinics and provide group therapy sessions where appropriate.
4. Promote the continual improvement of patient care through evidence based practice, and maintain quality of care as the highest priority.
5. Develop the family therapy service across Southampton Children's Hospital and provide systemic supervision to the paediatric liaison team.
6. Provide skilled informal and formal teaching and training to the multidisciplinary team within SCH as well as at local and national training events.
We are looking for someone with:
* A postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare professions.
* Masters level or equivalent qualification in family systemic psychotherapy or equivalent registration as a systemic family therapist with the UKCP.
* Skills in assessment, intervention and management of Children and Young people with complex mental health difficulties.
* A positive attitude to problem solving.
Person specification
Trust Values
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Qualifications training required
* Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
* Masters/Doctoral level qualification in Family Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent.
* Registration as a systemic family therapist with the UKCP.
* Post-qualification training and accreditation in a specialised area of psychological practice.
Previous or relevant experience necessary
* Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession (in Health and/or Social Care settings).
* Experience of working and communicating with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course; in particular with children and young people, as well as work with family groups and adults, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
* Experience of a wide variety of child & family clinical presentations across the full range of severity and care settings.
* Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of representing family therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings, including inpatient care.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
Aptitudes and skills required
* Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment intervention and management with children and adolescents with complex and significant mental health problems frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children of all ages, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Relevant master’s level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Skills in supervision.
* Skills in management and leadership.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. eating disorder, severely challenging behaviours etc.).
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
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