Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - mat leave cover
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - Maternity Leave
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to work in this supportive multi-disciplinary Specialist CAMHS team based in West Herts covering two sites in Hemel Hempstead and St Albans. We are open to receiving applications from candidates who are currently completing their final year of training with relevant experience.
The postholder will be passionate about delivering psychotherapy intervention to young people and will work alongside a senior psychotherapist and the wider MDT. They will be supported to consolidate their training and be given a firm foundation to enable them to establish themselves within their professional role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake a range of roles providing assessment and therapeutic intervention to children, young people, and their families who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties. They will be given allocated time for a psychotherapy specific caseload as well as offering core work. The specific work will include psychotherapy cases, parent work, and where appropriate state of mind assessments.
The team works within the context of CAPA and CYP-IAPT and closely collaborates with a range of colleagues in social care, schools, and other partners. The post holder will be supported to develop professionally in their role. A range of supervision is available including professional, clinical, peer, and management. We also provide regular CPD as well as opportunities for reflection and connecting with psychotherapists county-wide. We welcome creative and innovative ideas for service development.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job responsibilities
To deliver a high-quality service working with adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service needs. The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people, and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological, and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT.
The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of their own and other professions.
The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline, and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.
The post holder will contribute to research, audit, and evaluation for service development.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
* Relevant professional registration as per person spec
* Evidence of CPD
* Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
Experience and Knowledge
* Post-qualification experience in a CAMHS team or related area, or several years' experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration, and some knowledge of social care services and legislation.
* Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health, and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions.
* Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures.
* Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
Communication Skills
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families.
* Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members' contributions.
* Positive problem-solving approach.
Physical Skills
* Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).
* IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Marlowes Health and Wellbeing Centre, 39-41 Marlowes HP1 1LD
Date posted
18 December 2024
Band
Band 7
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary, min £1,258 - max £2,122
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Reference number
367-CYP-8952-A
Job locations
Marlowes Health and Wellbeing Centre, 39-41 Marlowes HP1 1LD
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