Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and creative community team working with young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The Home Treatment Team works with 12-18-year-olds experiencing a crisis in their mental health wellbeing, providing a clinical assessment and intervention service for children and young people within the Home Treatment Team. We also deliver mental health training, education, and consultation to partner agencies, parents, carers, children, and young people.
Work collaboratively with staff within other agencies to meet the complex mental health needs of children and young people in the city, especially those belonging to vulnerable groups.
Main Duties of the Job
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service to clients across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Community within their homes. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders. The post-holder will be responsible for coordinating, developing, and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions.
The post-holder will also be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients' care to colleagues and non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. The post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.
About Us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care, and liaison psychiatry.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Job Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
* To be a member of the multi-disciplinary team within CAMHS and to proactively contribute to and participate in the provision, governance, and ongoing development of the services provided.
* To be responsible for the provision of family and systemic psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level for young people and their families, carers, and wider networks.
* Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients, including family therapy, separated family therapy, and multi-family group therapy.
* To undertake detailed and highly specialist systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team.
* Provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
* Work sensitively and appropriately for families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
* Adjust and refine systemic formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
* To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client's needs.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with a minimum of three years of demonstrable practice.
* Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with the UKCP.
* Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on training courses to meet AFT CPD requirements.
* Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice.
Experience
* Minimum three years practice in relevant first profession.
* Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in highly emotive and distressing situations.
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment.
* Experience of providing systemic support in a high-stress environment.
* Experience of risk assessment and management.
* Experience of working with children and families of all ages and with complex mental health problems.
Knowledge & Skills
* Demonstrable ability to create sustainable working alliances with service users, families, and colleagues.
* Specialist skills in using a variety of systemic theories and interventions.
* Well-developed skills to communicate complex, sensitive information effectively.
* Experience and skills in clinical supervision of counselling or other clinical contexts.
Other
* Ability to manage working in highly complex situations.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT/UKCP registration.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 per annum pro rata.
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