Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Block 20a, Ida Darwin Town, Fulbourn, Cambridge
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
Band 7
Job Overview
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.
We provide a clinical assessment and intervention service for children and young people within the Home Treatment Team. 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.
Work collaboratively and in multi-agency service delivery to support improved outcomes for children and young people 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. These interventions are highly specialised, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices that are based on collaboration between clinicians, service users, and carers, and commissioners of the service. The post holder will be responsible for this process by researching new practices, understanding, and applying evidence-based approaches both in relation to family treatments and in the involvement of service users and carers.
The post-holder will be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients’ care to all colleagues and to other, 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.
The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
Working for Our Organisation
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, not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. 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.
Detailed Job Description and Main 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. These treatments may include the following systemic psychotherapy interventions:
o Family therapy (all family members present in the room at the same time, plus patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary team).
o Separated family therapy (i.e. parental counselling and individual systemic counselling running in parallel).
o Multi-family group therapy.
* To undertake detailed and highly specialist systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team. This will involve working face-to-face contact with children and families/carers to discuss and work through highly complex, sensitive and personal information related to their mental health presentation. This would also include the completion of personal and relational development, genograms, eco-maps, analysis and assessment of multiple levels of contextual meaning, deconstruction of current interactional patterns of behaviour and meaning around mental health issues and complex relationships, creating methods for client-centred analysis of change through the use of live team observations/interventions, video recording and video recording analysis, relevant questionnaires and creative methods, and other systemic assessment tools.
* Provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
* Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same-sex couples and their families, extended families, and people with mental health difficulties, as well as working with carers and other representatives of the clients’ networks. To take a proactive stance in challenging racism and discrimination and support the development of a culturally competent service.
* Adjust and refine systemic formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
* To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of three years.
* Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with the UKCP.
* Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long 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 the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Experience of providing systemic support to a multi-disciplinary team in the context of a high stress, high-anxiety environment.
* Experience of risk assessment and risk management.
* Experience of working with children and families of all ages.
* Experience of working with children, adolescents, and families with complex mental health problems.
* Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation, and intervention with clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community and residential or educational.
* Experience of working with a range of child and adolescent disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
* Experience of risk assessment and risk management from a systemic/relational perspective.
Knowledge & Skills
* Demonstrable ability to create sustainable working alliances with service users, families, colleagues, and other professionals.
* Specialist skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and the wider system setting.
* Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration; ability to carry those out in crisis situations.
* Well-developed skills and the ability to communicate effectively—orally and in writing—complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families/carers and their wider network; to other professional colleagues both within and outside the health and care system.
* Experience and skills in clinical supervision of counselling, nursing or other clinical context.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to adolescents, social care, and mental health.
* Knowledge of Eating Disorders and common co-morbidities - anxiety including OCD, anxiety & depression.
Other
* Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing/conflicting views about those difficulties, and the ability to address and tackle ethical dilemmas.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT/UKCP registration.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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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