We are a specialist child and adolescent mental health service that supports children and young people up to the age of 18 years old experiencing moderate to severe eating disorders.
Our team includes consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses and social workers, family therapists, dietitians, and administrators. The service focuses on delivering timely access to assessment and evidence-based treatment for children and young people with anorexia nervosa and moderate to severe bulimia and binge eating disorder.
We offer specialist, family-based approaches, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, cognitive analytical therapy, motivational interviewing, and guided self-help. In addition, we are expanding to include an intensive home meal support provision to allow children and young people to remain in the community for treatment and avoid or delay admission to specialist units and acute hospitals.
Treatment involves specialist eating disorder assessment and participation in planned treatment programmes, including individual work, family work, family meals, and support around managing difficulties linked with eating, linked to specialist dietetic input.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service to clients of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CAMHS across all sectors of care. This post provides a systemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental health disorders, specialising in eating disorders. The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, 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 based on collaboration between clinicians, service users, 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.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
* The post holder will undertake specialist systemic family assessment and care planned interventions of young people and families referred to the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.
* Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients. These treatments may include the following systemic psychotherapy interventions:
• Conjoint family therapy (all family members present in the room at the same time, plus patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary team).
• Separated family therapy (i.e. parental counselling and individual systemic counselling running in parallel).
• Multi-family group therapy.
* The post holder is expected to participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and to consult to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each patient’s care. Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.
* To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers, and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care.
* To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
* To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
* To assist in the management of the team caseload.
* To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
* To provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including: psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion, and crisis intervention.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Doctoral/M.Sc./Post-graduate Diploma in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
* UKCP registered family therapist.
* Additional qualification in a related profession (e.g. social work, nursing, psychology).
* Current safeguarding training.
* Relevant specialist training in adolescent mental health disorders.
* Advanced training in supervision.
Experience
* Substantial post-qualifying experience as a systemic/family psychotherapist working in a health care or social care setting.
* Substantial experience of working with children, adolescents, and families with eating disorders and complex mental health problems (ideally working within a CAMHS setting).
* Experience of supervising other mental health professionals.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
* Involvement in a variety of systemic psychotherapy interventions (e.g. conjoint family therapy, parental counselling, group therapy).
* Experience of planning and applying service developments.
* Relevant experience of working collaboratively with service users and carers in the development of patient/client-centred services.
* Experience facilitating the development of multi-disciplinary staff groups through the application of systemic models.
* Experience across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
Skills & Abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, formulation, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills.
* Of current, evidence-based, stepped care models of care as detailed in NICE guidance.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Knowledge and facilitation of multi-family group therapy programmes for eating disorders.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised systemic therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
* Knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD and ASD and learning disability including specific child protection and risk issues relevant to this group of CYP.
* Knowledge of Eating Disorders and common co-morbidities - anxiety including OCD, anxiety & depression. Good working knowledge of evidence base for the treatment of Eating Disorders in CAMHS.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
* Knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of systemic psychotherapy.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by UKCP and AFT.
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.
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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 Sarah Williams Job title Team Manager Email address sarah.williams2@cpft.nhs.uk Additional information
Dr Penny Hazell
Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
penny.hazell@cpft.nhs.uk
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