Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

To contribute to the delivery of the CYPS care pathways through the provision of generic assessment and evidence-based psychological interventions to children and their families referred into the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service with an 80/20 split of clinical direct time.

To effectively manage a holding case load and undertake necessary liaison and care coordination activities in collaboration with the children, young people, families and the wider network.

To support the development and provision of a high quality, evidence based Family Therapy Service to children and adolescents referred into the CYPS, while receiving regular clinical supervision.

To contribute to the management of the clinics: reducing DNA rates, collating outcome measures, participating in audit and the ongoing outcome of FT feedback collection project (SCORE-15).

To provide Systemic consultation within the multi-disciplinary team.

To contribute to the service redesign initiatives and developing the provision of the Systemic and Family Psychotherapy Service.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a multidisciplinary CYPS team, to provide generic assessments for children, adolescents and their families. To utilise specialist skills to support children, young people and families. To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment , care coordination and treatment of children, young people and their families as appropriate. To be responsible for ensuring that referrals and discharges are made in accordance with all the Trust's relevant policy and procedures and the principles of good practice. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans. To effectively communicate professional opinion, verbally and in writing to families, other professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies. To be responsible for attending CPA meetings and multi-agency reviews where appropriate. To formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence e.g. NICE guidelines. To work in ways that are collaborative, sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of social diversities like racial, gender, cultural, and different religious backgrounds. To provide Systemic and Family Psychotherapy as an autonomous clinician, drawing on a range of models and techniques. To contribute as part of a team of coordinators to the delivery of the FLASH Group for parents of children who self harm.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

11 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£45,753 to £52,067 a year Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

325-5444666-CYPS

Job locations

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

Person Specification

Professiaonl Body, Certificate

Essential

Qualification in appropriate Mental Health and/or Social Care education profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years. Masters/ Doctoral level qualification or working towards qualification in family Therapy systemic family therapy (MSc final Year)

Desirable

other related academic qualification. Advanced key board skills- use of IT. Clinical Supervision training

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Experience of working with a wide variety of patients groups across the whole life course of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical serverity inclding a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats or physical abuse. Expereince of risk assessment and risk management. Expernce of complex multi Agency case management and care coordination.

Desirable

Experience of working with individual with acute psychiatric illness, Personality Disorder and chronic mental illness.

Person Specification

Professiaonl Body, Certificate

Essential

Qualification in appropriate Mental Health and/or Social Care education profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years. Masters/ Doctoral level qualification or working towards qualification in family Therapy systemic family therapy (MSc final Year)

Desirable

other related academic qualification. Advanced key board skills- use of IT. Clinical Supervision training

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Experience of working with a wide variety of patients groups across the whole life course of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical serverity inclding a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats or physical abuse. Expereince of risk assessment and risk management. Expernce of complex multi Agency case management and care coordination.

Desirable

Experience of working with individual with acute psychiatric illness, Personality Disorder and chronic mental illness.

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.