Job summary
The post holder will join the Generic CAMHS team in Haringey CAMHS and work with children and young people with a range of complex mental health needs, and their parents/carers, families and significant others. You will contribute to the work of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), offering mental health assessment and generic interventions, alongside specialist family and systemic psychotherapy.
Haringey Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), which forms part of the Child Directorate within Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust, is a large inter-agency service comprising the range of multi-disciplinary staff. The service operates a single-point of entry for Haringey CAMHS, known as CAMHS Access and works closely with key partners in the Third Sector, as well as other health providers, such as the Tavistock and Portman Clinic, who are contracted to offer some specialist services.
CAMHS clinicians are based in the various teams across the service including: generic CAMHS, the Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service (HEWS), the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT), CHOICES, the Trailblazer school team, and the specialist mental health service for children and young people with a learning disability (CAMHS-LD). All teams share an office base at St Ann's Hospital. The service works with children, adolescents and families in a variety of settings; in the clinic setting at St Ann's, other Health settings, within the family home, schools and children's services settings.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature with a view to formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescent's mental health problems within the context of family and other systems. These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ research- based evidence.
- To work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of familiesfrom a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children who are on the At Risk register and parents with mental health difficulties.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of systemicpsychotherapeutic therapy drawing upon differentexplanatory models to maintain a number of provisionalhypothesis in reaching a formulation and treatment plan.
- In conjunction with the Family & Systemic PsychotherapyLead to exercise autonomous professional responsibility forthe assessment, treatment and discharge of clients/patientsand formulate effective care plans in collaboration with theclient and family/carer.
About us
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people.We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where youcan thrive and succeed.
Job description
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Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- MSc or Doctoral level qualification in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with AFT
- Professional Registration as a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP
- Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent training.
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialist areas of therapeutic practice
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession.
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of three years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families when a child or adolescent has complex needs.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families
- Experience of risk assessment and risk
- Experience of using outcome measures
- Experience of involving service users.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision. Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Experience of developing services.
- Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of developing services.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Advanced 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
- Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
- Knowledge of research methodology and outcome measures consistent with systemic practice
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements
- Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions.
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to assess and manage risk.
- Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination.
- Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT and UKCP. Ability to be part of the recruitment process and
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT and UKCP.
- Ability to be part of the recruitment process
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- MSc or Doctoral level qualification in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with AFT
- Professional Registration as a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP
- Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent training.
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialist areas of therapeutic practice
- Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Minimum four years practice in relevant first profession.
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of three years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families when a child or adolescent has complex needs.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families
- Experience of risk assessment and risk
- Experience of using outcome measures
- Experience of involving service users.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision. Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts. Experience of developing services.
- Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of developing services.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Advanced 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
- Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
- Knowledge of research methodology and outcome measures consistent with systemic practice
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including advanced specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
- Advanced skills in professional supervision to meet UKCP requirements
- Advanced Skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage working in highly complex situations where there are multiple difficulties, competing views about those difficulties, and take a lead in creating contexts that develop systemic rapport, and harness the abilities of others in developing resources and solutions.
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to assess and manage risk.
- Ability to recognise and challenge any form of discrimination.
- Ability to identify and employ methods of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT and UKCP. Ability to be part of the recruitment process and
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by AFT and UKCP.
- Ability to be part of the recruitment process
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).
