Job summary
1x permanent post- 37.5 hours per week
1x permanent post- 24 hours per week
Family and Systemic Psychotherapist (Newly qualified and completing training this year)
What you like to be part of a service which is innovative, forward thinking and committed to enabling people who are experiencing mental health difficulties to recover and discover their potential?
If so, we are an exciting opportunity for band 7 (Part -Time 0.64) Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.
We have launched our brand-new band 7-8a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist preceptorship programme, with a structured support and development plan to enable you to progress to Band 8a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist role on completion of the required competencies. It is a fantastic time to join our Trust's growing Mental Health Services. Parkview inpatient clinic is also undergoing a £4.6m rebuild to give patients their own en-suite rooms and therapeutic spaces.
Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who would like to develop in their career and Trainees qualifying this autumn are encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job
To promote recovery and provide excellent multidisciplinary mental health services for young people, (aged 11 - 18) and their families accessing care at the Regional Inpatient CAMHS service at Parkview, Moseley, Birmingham. The post holder will provide specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapy assessment and intervention for young people and their families/carers, contribute to the ward round, formulation, care planning, CPAs and MDT assessments, as well as offer supervision, consultation, training, and staff support to colleagues within an inpatient setting.
Being a team player is important, who offer a high quality of care guided by strong evidence, and who are committed to making a difference to the lives of young people and their families.
The team are excited to welcome more Family and Systemic Psychotherapy colleagues and value the diversity of skills Family and Systemic Psychotherapist can contribute in relation to therapeutic interventions, consultation, supervision, reflective practice, teaching and training, service development and research/ audit knowledge.
You can bring your skills and experience to our trust and see the difference you can make to the lives of young people and their families.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential
- Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession
- Minimum three years experience of working with families in CAMHS or equivalent experience.
- Minimum three years experience of working with families in a mental health setting.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for sys temic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of self harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of systemic theories and evidence based interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
- Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
- Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Specialist knowledge of therapy and treatment for patients and their families with eating disorders.
- Knowledge of current developments in community mental health services for 0 25 year olds.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration in the face of emotional intensity, and potential verbal a nd physical intimidation
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks, and its implicat ions for both clinical practice and professional management
- Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level (including use of play, drawing and metaphor, stories) complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS including reports for the Courts Advanced video skills and the ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements; skills for offering live supervision of multi disciplinary colleagues.
- Skills in providing Systemic consultation to other professional and non professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the AFT.
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to multi task at different levels of context, while leading and supervising a systemic psychotherapy clinical/training practicum requiring intense concentration and skills for using a one way screen, video equipment and involving members of from different professional background in service delivery simultaneously.
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Ability to manage working in situations of multi level stress, e.g., client's experience of physical, sexual and emotional abuse colleagues, organisational transitions
- Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
Other Requirements
Desirable
- Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings if necessary
- Car driver car owner
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters/Diploma level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy with at least 2 years post qualification experience.
- Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of four
- The Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long training courses to meet CPD requirements
- Advanced skills in meeting the needs of children and young people within the context of their significant relationships
Desirable
- Training & Registration as Clinical Supervisor for Family Therapy (AFT)
- Training in teaching systemic psychotherapy
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice e.g. NVR, FT AN, FBT.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential
- Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession
- Minimum three years experience of working with families in CAMHS or equivalent experience.
- Minimum three years experience of working with families in a mental health setting.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for sys temic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of self harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of systemic theories and evidence based interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
- Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
- Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Specialist knowledge of therapy and treatment for patients and their families with eating disorders.
- Knowledge of current developments in community mental health services for 0 25 year olds.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration in the face of emotional intensity, and potential verbal a nd physical intimidation
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
- Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks, and its implicat ions for both clinical practice and professional management
- Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level (including use of play, drawing and metaphor, stories) complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS including reports for the Courts Advanced video skills and the ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements; skills for offering live supervision of multi disciplinary colleagues.
- Skills in providing Systemic consultation to other professional and non professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the AFT.
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to multi task at different levels of context, while leading and supervising a systemic psychotherapy clinical/training practicum requiring intense concentration and skills for using a one way screen, video equipment and involving members of from different professional background in service delivery simultaneously.
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Ability to manage working in situations of multi level stress, e.g., client's experience of physical, sexual and emotional abuse colleagues, organisational transitions
- Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
Other Requirements
Desirable
- Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings if necessary
- Car driver car owner
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters/Diploma level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy with at least 2 years post qualification experience.
- Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of four
- The Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long training courses to meet CPD requirements
- Advanced skills in meeting the needs of children and young people within the context of their significant relationships
Desirable
- Training & Registration as Clinical Supervisor for Family Therapy (AFT)
- Training in teaching systemic psychotherapy
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice e.g. NVR, FT AN, FBT.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Inpatient CAMHS @ Parkview Clinic Birmingham Woman's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
60 Queensbridge Road Birmingham
Birmingham
B13 8QE
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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