Systemic Family Psychotherapist

Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your experience as a CAMHS clinician or step up to such a role? If so, we have a great opportunity for dynamic Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who has passion for community CAMHS and innovative ways of working.

We very much welcome dual qualified clinicians - such as Mental Health Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, Child Psychotherapists and Social Workers, and will consider staff due to complete their training in the next few months.

You will support the Family Therapy and CAMHS teams in providing an accessible, responsive, and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. There will be several opportunities to develop your skills with support from senior colleagues.

Main duties of the job

1. Clinical duties, leadership, and supervision2. The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance3. Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners4. Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example toGPs/Schools/Local Authorities5. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities.6. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team lead/manager7. To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient's psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical differences and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy8. Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with thepatient/service user to monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions9. Liaise with referral agencies and networks around identified patients for their own and shared cases. This may entail liaison with local services andparticipating in outreach and multi-disciplinary team meetings10. If in a social work role, may be required to prepare reports and give evidence in courts, hearings and tribunals depending on service11. May act as lead specialist

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.