Site Springfield Hospital Town Tooting Salary £37,156 - £41,205 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 10/02/2025 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 an exciting part-time opportunity for an 8a Systemic family psychotherapist and a rare Therapy Supervision, Consultation and Training Course that will allow for development of an in-team Family Therapy Clinic.
The Aquarius Adolescent Unit is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including a dedicated full time Consultant Psychiatrist and Ward Manager, CAMHS nursing team, psychologist, occupational therapist, systemic family psychotherapist, social worker and support workers. The Wandsworth Local Education Authority provides regular teaching staff to the ward and the CAMHS Campus School as part of the Home and Hospital Tuition Service. We are an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team looking for a passionate systemic family psychotherapist to join us.
Aquarius ward operate as an integrated service with a single referral pathway for the local 5 boroughs, enabling the young person to access the level of care they require at different stages of their recovery and to retain links with their local area.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting specialist part-time opportunity for a Band 8a highly specialised systemic family psychotherapist seeking experience in or who already enjoys working in an inpatient setting with children and young people.
We are looking for a committed systemic family psychotherapist 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 qualified Systemic Family psychotherapist with the following:
* Qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with the UKCP
* Experience of working with children and young people in a CAMHS or inpatient setting
* Experience of working 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
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.
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world-class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
1. To provide specialist psychological 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 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 psychological 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 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 in 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.
Person specification
TRAINING & 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.
* 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.
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.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
* Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of potential to provide collaborative team leadership.
* Knowledge of UK legislation in relation to the health and welfare services to children and adolescents and mental health.
* Knowledge of employment legislation.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, children with complex problems etc).
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 has 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 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.
Name Niruban Vallinathan Job title Ward Manager Email address niru.vallinathan@swlstg.nhs.uk Telephone number 02035135432 Additional information
If you are interested in this exciting role, please feel able to telephone to discuss this position further:
· Dr Oliver Schauman, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, oliver.schauman@swlstg.nhs.uk, 020 3513 5177
· Sylvia Metzer, Consultant Family Psychotherapist and Systemic Lead
Sylvia.metzer@swlstg.nhs.uk
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