Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
To provide a qualified systemic family therapy service within our Children & Adolescent Mental Health services, including assessment, care planning, and therapeutic intervention. To provide consultation, supervision, and support to other clinical members of the team who provide family-based care and treatment.
We would also consider applications from trainees in their 4th and final year of systemic training. If recruited on this basis, you would be appointed as a Trainee Systemic Psychotherapist on a fixed-term contract paid at agenda for change Band 6. Upon successful qualification as a family therapist, you would then be offered a permanent contract as a qualified systemic psychotherapist at Band 7.
In addition to the benefits offered under the NHS terms and conditions of service, this post additionally attracts an incentive of £5000 pa pro rata for the successful applicant/s paid over the first 18 months of employment. Please note incentive payments are not applicable to existing NHFT substantive staff. Terms & Conditions apply. Additionally, a relocation package is available of up to £8000, if the successful post holder relocates to Northamptonshire and meets other eligibility criteria. This is subject to approval.
Main duties of the job
1. To plan and organise a broad range of therapeutic activities or programmes, some of which are on-going, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.
2. The ability to deal with untoward situations that may suddenly occur within the clinical environment quickly and effectively with limited other clinical staff support to manage the situation.
3. To support the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of therapeutic care plans by other team members, and share clinical responsibility for their delivery.
4. To ensure the provision of support to children/young people and their families/carers, which is likely to include frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances.
5. To plan and prioritise own clinical caseload, and respond to and adjust the schedule of work when required, which may include crisis assessments in cases of self-harm in young people.
6. To make judgements on an individual basis involving highly sensitive and complex information and/or situations, which require analysis, interpretation, and the comparison of a range of options, and to provide support to other team members regarding their clinical decision making and risk assessment.
7. To lead on appropriate aspects of service audit.
8. To act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.
9. To be able to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance and CPA and demonstrate the ability to apply them in practice.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work, or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You section of the document.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in a CAMHS service
* Experience of working with young people and families
* Experience of working with emotional/distressed patients
Qualifications
* Degree level qualification appropriate to the role
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.
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