Psychological Therapist: Systemic Family Therapist
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
The Teesside Early Intervention for Psychosis Service is looking to recruit a full time Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist. The post will be based in one of the two North Tees EIP teams in Hartlepool and Stockton and the post holder will work clinically across both sites. The post holder will also hold a position of leadership around the delivery of Systemic and Family Interventions across all of the EIP teams in the Durham Tees Valley Directorate. As well as supporting Family Interventions across the wider system.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Early Intervention for Psychosis team in a therapy delivery role.
Main duties of the job
Applicants will be required to have either RMN or equivalent mental health core qualification and be registered with a professional regulatory body, and to have completed and passed an Association of Family Therapy (AFT) accredited Systemic Family Therapy Masters Course making them eligible for Accreditation as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with AFT.
They will also have significant experience delivering psychological informed interventions to people experiencing severe mental health problems in a secondary care setting. Training and experience delivering behavioural family therapy for psychosis would be highly relevant experience. As would further training in Supervising Systemic Practice.
Job responsibilities
Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy's Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A qualification that leads to registration with a professional regulatory body (HCPC, GMC, NMC or Social Work England) AND current registration with this professional regulatory body.
* AND to have completed and passed an Association of Family Therapy (AFT) accredited Systemic Family Therapy Masters Course making them eligible for Accreditation as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with AFT.
* Trained and experienced in generic clinical supervision and care coordination.
* Evidence of continuing relevant CPD, including clinical practice and leadership within the NHS.
* Qualification to provide clinical supervision within the psychological therapy.
Experience
* Substantial post qualification experience of specialist model specific psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings and age ranges.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
* Significant experience in consultation, clinical supervision, and audit activities.
* Experience of providing training to other professional groups and to relevant training courses e.g., medical, nursing, social work.
* Quality and service improvement and evaluation.
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies.
Knowledge & Skills
* Significant and specialist knowledge of the theory, practice, and evidence based in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention, and management of complex cases based on psychological therapy models across a range of client presentations and care settings.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the community pathway.
* Knowledge of development across the life span and attachment theory.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their family, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process.
* The Trust's Quality Improvement System, risk assessment and risk management, clinical governance and audit and research methodology.
* Significant knowledge and experience of another psychological therapy.
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.
Contact Information
For further inquiries, please contact:
* Dr. Jennifer Simpson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Durham Tees Valley EIP: jennifer.simpson7@nhs.net
* Alix Bowler, Trust Wide Family Intervention Lead and Systemic Therapist for Tees EIP: alix.bowler@nhs.net
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