Systemic Family Practitioner / Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE MODEL

The Brandon Centre's Systemic Integrative Treatment (SIT) has been developed in accordance with NICE guidelines to treat antisocial and/ or harmful behaviour in children and adolescents. It is an intensive community-based family treatment model which works with the systems around the young person, including family, school and peers to address the causal and maintaining factors of the behaviour. Therapists work primarily with parents, in a collaborative and non-judgmental way, to empower them to effect change. This is achieved by building on their strengths and providing families with the tools and confidence to navigate current and future problems and reduce the risk of further antisocial/ harmful. There are two phases to the intervention: phase 1 is intensive treatment delivery, which will include 2 - 3 visits per week and can last up to 6 months; phase 2 is delivered by a designated phase 2 SIT therapist and can extend total treatment time to 1 year, and includes monthly sessions with the family, attendance at professional meetings, and ongoing consultation with key professionals.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities:

Conduct SIT assessment in collaboration with SIT supervisor including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing the SIT formulation of problematic behaviours within the ecological context.

Implement a systemic formulation, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcome review and strategy revision using the SIT assessment & intervention model (AIM).

To have a caseload of 4 families, delivering the SIT intervention.

As part of the SIT model, deliver evidence-based psychological interventions which will include behavioural therapy, pragmatic family therapy & CBT.

Engage primary caregivers and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by continuously identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement and alignment with intervention.

During phase one of the treatment, meet with the family approx. 2 3 times per week to provide direct treatment using methods compatible with SIT

Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment that promotes peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrates compliance with the SIT Principles and the SIT AIM.

Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure their buy-in and cooperation throughout SIT treatment.

Work collaboratively with other services involved with the family, attending and participating in meetings such as Child Protection Conferences, and Core Group meetings.

Prepare reports for Child protection conferences, court and other reports as necessary.

Prepare monthly progress reports for key stakeholders in a timely manner.

Participate in all training, supervision and consultation activities.

Clinician Core Job Practices

Model Integrity

Implement SIT using evidence-based models as guided by the SIT Service Lead to meet identified treatment goals and establish positive outcomes for families.

Team and Consultation

Complete case paperwork weekly on all cases and submit it to the supervisor 24 hours prior to supervision.

Attend weekly group supervision and monthly consultation.

Come to group supervision and consultation prepared to review all current SIT cases and actively participate in discussion of current cases.

Incorporate feedback from supervision and consultation into the treatment process.

Be available to other team members and engage in activities to support other team members outside group supervision.

Scheduling and Coverage

Flexible and responsive approach to meet the needs of the family

Rotate on call to be available via telephone and occasionally, where necessary in person for 1 week in 4 for emergencies.

Be knowledgeable enough about the cases of other clinicians so that coverage can be provided without threat to treatment continuity and integrity.

Must not hold additional part-time jobs outside of the service.

Training and Adherence Monitoring

Participate with the supervisor in the creation of a written clinician development plan, updates and annual appraisals.

Video and audio tape sessions as requested by the supervisor for supervision and model adherence purposes.

Collaborate with supervisor to set up observations of therapeutic work in the community.

Incorporate supervisor feedback from tapes, observations, role plays, etc., into development plan and into treatment process.

Other

To deliver presentations to promote the SIT service to stakeholders as appropriate.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• High level communication skills (written and verbal).
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Ability to lone work and manage own workload and time flexibly
• Willingness for clinical work to be closely monitored
• Sound ICT and Microsoft Office skills
• Willingness to travel and work out of hours
• Willingness and ability to work remotely

Desirable

• An ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development and its application in treatment.
• High level of understanding and experience of safeguarding and managing risk.
• Experience in at least ONE of the following: Direct use of pragmatic (i.e. structural, strategic and functional) family therapies; delivering Cognitive Behavioural therapy; delivery of Solutions Focused therapy; Couples therapy using behaviourally-based approaches; Delivering behavioural therapy for children and young people displaying challenging behaviour.
• Sound knowledge of at least ONE of the following: Family systems theory and application; Social ecological theory and application; Behavioural therapies theory and application; Cognitive-behavioural therapy theory and application; Pragmatic family therapies theory and application.

Desirable

• Experience of working with multi-problem families with anti-social young people and adolescents across multiple systems in the young person's natural ecology, including family, peers, school and neighbourhood.
• Experience of working in highly emotive and challenging community settings.

Knowledge and Experience

Desirable

• Experience of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention.
• Experience working with local government, health or the voluntary sector.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree and professional qualification in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology, Social Work, CBT, Occupational Therapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Mental Health Nursing or equivalent/ related subject area.
• Registration with a relevant professional body (please note, individuals with a related undergraduate degree and significant clinical experience may also qualify at the discretion of the centre).

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Brandon Centre

Address

26 Prince of Wales Rd

Kentish Town

London

NW5 3LG

Employer's website

https://brandon-centre.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)