Main area CAMHS Acute- Band 8a Systemic Psychotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Service hours: Mon-Sun 9am-8pm. There may be the requirement to work outside of Mon-Fri 9am-5pm in a planned way to meet clinical needs.
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 354-CS-21609-B
Site: Chalkhill, PRH site
Town: Haywards Heath
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, and enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care.
Job overview
Are you a senior/ highly specialist family & systemic psychotherapist, currently working in CAMHS or Acute Adult Services, and looking for a new challenge by being part of the new CAMHS service?
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and innovative family & systemic psychotherapist to work within the CAMHS Acute Care Service. You will be involved in an exciting new development of the enhanced crisis / home treatment 7 day a week service, as an alternative to inpatient admission for Children and Young People experiencing acute mental health difficulties.
You will be part of developing the service to give children and young people living in Sussex a more appropriate and integrated range of services to meet their clinical needs. As the senior/highly specialised family & systemic psychotherapist, you will be part of the clinical team to ensure that young people and their families receive timely, targeted assessment and effective family & systemic interventions.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the Sussex CAMHS crisis and intensive home treatment service, you will be responsible for offering family & systemic assessments, formulations, and interventions. You will support the professional and clinical supervision of colleagues.
You will use your extensive clinical experience to assess and support the young person, alongside their parent and carer, in order to enhance their clinical outcomes and quality of life. Delivering interventions and offering training and supervision to colleagues while being integral to multi-disciplinary working are central components of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Recognised accredited post graduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified
* Professionally registered
Knowledge and Experience
* Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment)
* A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties
* Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
Skills
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
* Ability to plan and manage a complex work load with competing demands
* Skills in clinical supervision of others
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
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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