Job summary
The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Healthcare (NCTH) is a national service of 7 NHS England commissioned clinics that patients can access from across the country. There is a significant and long wait time from referral to first assessment. NCTH have worked with NHS England on a number of pilot projects to reduce wait times.
The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary service, working with Clinical Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrists, General Practitioners, Consultant Nurse, Associate Specialist, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Speech and Language Therapists.
This post requires the ability to work with people using a variety of communication methods, and a wide range of psychological and other needs.
The post requires close liaison with a broad range of other disciplines and agencies including health, education, social services, voluntary agencies, and care systems. A key aspect of this post will be to provide support through supervision and consultation to staff within the team and across other services. The post holder works autonomously within UKCP registration and Association for Family Therapy (AFT) guidance and the overall framework of the NCTHnet service policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy service to children and young people referred the NCTHnet. To ensure direct specialist assessment and therapy for children, young people, adults and families. Providing family therapy and systemic advice, consultation and clinical supervision for a range of team members. To undertake clinically relevant research/audit and specific clinical activity or lead roles that support the Team Leads in developing the service.
About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Job description
Job responsibilities
Observe and adhere to the NCTHnet Service Specification, vision, aims and objectives.
To work at all times in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. To provide highly specialist assessments of children, young people, adults and their families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex information from a variety of sources.
Using a range of systemic assessment tools including live team observations and videotape analysis to create methods for client centred analysis of change. To formulate and implement plans for the formal family therapy and or management of a childs or young persons mental health problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy , across the full range of care settings.
To create and deliver highly specialised therapeutic interventions with groups of children/ families and professionals which draw from a broad spectrum of systemic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group.
To undertake risk assessment and management for clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To deliver an agreed package of care to children and families and adults and families with complex problems across the developmental spectrum and managing these within the context of multidisciplinary working.
To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group.
To provide an opinion regarding appropriate interventions where views may differ across the service and or other agencies.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all setting and agencies serving the client group.
To design, develop and advise on assessment and treatment interventions which are delivered as appropriate by other staff e.g. nurses, social workers, occupational therapy and other
practitioners under the post holders supervision.
To ensure that professionals in other agencies working with a child, young person, adults or families have access to a systemic based formulation and treatment plane for children, young people, adults and families seen within the service, through the provision of effective communication, advice, consultation and dissemination of best practice and research.
To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meeting, clinical reviews etc providing professional advise on individual care planning and other clinical matters as necessary.
To provide specialist consultation to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapeutic techniques and where appropriate for working jointly with other team members in the provision of individual and group based programmes.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by systemic and family therapy-based intervention plans.
To advise on the development and integration within the service on systemically based assessment and intervention.
To act, where appropriate, as multi-agency coordinator for the planning and review of care plans for children involved with complex, multi-agency systems.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Observe and adhere to the NCTHnet Service Specification, vision, aims and objectives.
To work at all times in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. To provide highly specialist assessments of children, young people, adults and their families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex information from a variety of sources.
Using a range of systemic assessment tools including live team observations and videotape analysis to create methods for client centred analysis of change. To formulate and implement plans for the formal family therapy and or management of a childs or young persons mental health problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy , across the full range of care settings.
To create and deliver highly specialised therapeutic interventions with groups of children/ families and professionals which draw from a broad spectrum of systemic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group.
To undertake risk assessment and management for clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To deliver an agreed package of care to children and families and adults and families with complex problems across the developmental spectrum and managing these within the context of multidisciplinary working.
To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group.
To provide an opinion regarding appropriate interventions where views may differ across the service and or other agencies.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all setting and agencies serving the client group.
To design, develop and advise on assessment and treatment interventions which are delivered as appropriate by other staff e.g. nurses, social workers, occupational therapy and other
practitioners under the post holders supervision.
To ensure that professionals in other agencies working with a child, young person, adults or families have access to a systemic based formulation and treatment plane for children, young people, adults and families seen within the service, through the provision of effective communication, advice, consultation and dissemination of best practice and research.
To participate in multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meeting, clinical reviews etc providing professional advise on individual care planning and other clinical matters as necessary.
To provide specialist consultation to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapeutic techniques and where appropriate for working jointly with other team members in the provision of individual and group based programmes.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by systemic and family therapy-based intervention plans.
To advise on the development and integration within the service on systemically based assessment and intervention.
To act, where appropriate, as multi-agency coordinator for the planning and review of care plans for children involved with complex, multi-agency systems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Masters degree qualification in family therapy
- related systemic training
- Registered with UKCP or eligible to register
Experience
Essential
- Expertise and relevant experience of working in child and family settings
- oEvidence of a specialist interest in systemic approaches, and developing this.
- oSpecialised skills and experience in the teaching and supervision of systemic therapy.
- oEvidence of organisation and management of a broad range of activities
- oHighly-developed awareness of diversity issues and their impact on the therapeutic process
- oExperience of effective multi-disciplinary team work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Masters degree qualification in family therapy
- related systemic training
- Registered with UKCP or eligible to register
Experience
Essential
- Expertise and relevant experience of working in child and family settings
- oEvidence of a specialist interest in systemic approaches, and developing this.
- oSpecialised skills and experience in the teaching and supervision of systemic therapy.
- oEvidence of organisation and management of a broad range of activities
- oHighly-developed awareness of diversity issues and their impact on the therapeutic process
- oExperience of effective multi-disciplinary team work
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
