Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES

1. Clinical:

to assess, formulate and devise treatment plans for referred children and families to deliver interventions using a range of generic and systemic models, applied in the hospital setting to work autonomously and independently in carrying out assessments and treatments to best meet children and families needs and in line with service practice, with the support and guidance of the PMHT Lead Clinician, Manager, Lead and multi-disciplinary team to hold and manage a caseload of children and families to provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to paediatric colleagues and other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, and treatment of children and families to assess and manage risk and safeguarding needs to contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary and joint assessments and treatment, when appropriate and agreed by the MDT to provide reports and communicate in a skilled, sensitive and timely manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of children and families

liaise with other health, social care, and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children and families from each service to gather outcomes and feedback for the treatment offered

2. Teaching, training and supervision

to continue to develop skills in systemic psychotherapy through training and clinical supervision to access regular continuing professional development and supervision as appropriatefor the role to supervise and manage others, where appropriate to provide training, advice, and consultation where appropriate as part of the paediatric multidisciplinary team, as well as social care, voluntary sector and education staff to take part in research, service evaluation and development to undertake project management, e.g., audit or service evaluation, in line with agreed service and department goals to utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-basedpractice in individual work and family work, and with other team members and inter-agency colleagues

3. General

to practice in a culturally competent manner, with understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion factors affecting access to mental health care to ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards ofpractice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training anddevelopment programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional andservice managers. to work flexibly and with initiative to meet the core aims of service delivery to children and families to contribute to the development and articulation of best practice within the serviceareas, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective practitioner, taking part inregular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagementwith current developments in the post holders area of specialism and in child mentalhealth and related disciplines to maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic dataentry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with Service and Trust policies and procedures to maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issuesof relevance to the service and client group to undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of thepost, as may be agreed with the service managers to attend Community CAMHS meetings and participate in the monthly Family Therapy Discipline meetings (takes place every first Wednesday of the month) as agreed withthe Head of Discipline and Service Manager

4. To be noted

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks; the employee will be asked to undertake other ad hoc tasks relevant with the scope and purpose of this role. This job description reflects the present requirements of the role, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post-holder.

Person Specification

essential

Essential

• Masters level qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy accredited by UKCP

Desirable

• additional, recognised therapeutic qualification mentorship/ supervision training

essential & desirable

Essential

• skills in delivering psychological therapy across cultural and other differences skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, and management of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and their families, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

essential & desirable

Essential

• experience of working with children & young people with physical and mental health difficulties experience of working with a wide variety of children and families, across the life cycle and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multiagency context experience of psychological assessment, treatment and risk management of children, young people and families with a range of presenting problems of a complex nature experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities knowledge of research methods and data analysis in health care experience of working in an acute hospital setting.

Desirable

• lived experience of physical and /or mental health difficulties

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Whittington Hospital

Magdala Avenue

London

N19 5NF

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)