Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 294-CAMHS-6987001-FZ-A
Site: Jubilee Health Centre
Town: Wallington
Salary: £35,694 - £39,743 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/03/2025 23:59
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
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 health/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.
Main duties of the job
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 Therapists 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 in wider service development initiatives.
This role is open to a qualified Systemic Family Therapist with the following:
* Qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with the 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.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
* 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.
* 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.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic family therapy 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.
* 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.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to systemic formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 in the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
* 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
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching and training of staff, as appropriate.
* 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
* 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.
* To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
* To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
* To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and Service Evaluation
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members in CAMHS.
* To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
* 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, and post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
* Eligible for UKCP registration.
* Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
* Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
* Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
* Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
Experience
* Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
* Consolidated 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
* Experience of conducting research.
* Experience of leading workshops/group.
At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.
As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace:
* BME (Evolve) Staff Network
* DiverseAbility
* Mental Health Staff Forum
* Women's Staff Network
* LGBTQIA+
We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.
Please note:
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received.
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system.
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* That your employment is offered subject to successful completion of a Probationary Period depending on your Band (except medical roles).
* That we are a smoke-free Trust.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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