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 as well as 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.
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 collaborates closely 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.
HPFT CAMHS service is leading in transforming care for young people and their families and now has a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, a CAMHS DBT Service, and has a dedicated CAMHS Section 136 Suite. We also host our own Tier 4 Inpatient Unit for young people, Forest House Adolescent Unit, which has worked to reduce inpatient admissions and improve community care for young people in crisis.
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.
Our Trust Values Are
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:
1. Welcoming
2. Kind
3. Positive
4. Respectful
5. 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…
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deni Gordon-Jackson Job title: Principal Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Telephone number: 01727 804 214
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