Job summary
This is a part time post for 30 hours a week.
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled and motivatedCAMHS Specialist Registered Practitioner - Systemic Family Psychotherapy to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
This is a split role, combining clinical leadership within our Family Therapy provision with a generic CAMHS practitioner role, including care coordination responsibilities.
The Role
This is a varied and rewarding post, with approximately:
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50% of time leading the Family Therapy Clinic, providing systemic assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families.
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50% of time holding a core CAMHS caseload, including undertaking assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, and acting as Care Coordinator where appropriate.
You will play a key role in embedding and sustaining a strong systemic offer within the service, while contributing fully to the wider multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Provide a range of highly specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) and their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.
Provide clinical leadership within the team and Family Therapy Clinic alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical safety needs and other complex/multi agency needs.
Take lead Family Therapist role in weekly Family Therapy Clinic with support of wider FT reflective team and Family Therapy colleagues in service, providing live supervision of the clinic as required.
Provide CAMHS specialist clinical safety assessments (including Self Harm assessments) and complex safety management planning as part of routine clinical work. This will include leading and actively contributing to multi disciplinary clinical discussions and formulations.
The "voice" of the child will be central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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lead and deliver systemic family psychotherapy clinics.
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Provide specialist systemic assessment and formulation.
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Deliver family-based interventions for complex and high-risk presentations.
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Hold a defined caseload of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
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Act as Care Coordinator in line with service and CPA processes.
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Contribute to risk assessment and risk management planning.
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Provide consultation and systemic thinking within the multidisciplinary team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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lead and deliver systemic family psychotherapy clinics.
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Provide specialist systemic assessment and formulation.
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Deliver family-based interventions for complex and high-risk presentations.
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Hold a defined caseload of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
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Act as Care Coordinator in line with service and CPA processes.
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Contribute to risk assessment and risk management planning.
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Provide consultation and systemic thinking within the multidisciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT. Registration with UKCP
- Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW, Clin Psych
Desirable
- NVR Association Foundation level
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related mental health settings.
- Demonstrate expertise and extensive clinical experience of providing personalised care planning to meet mental health or learning disabilities needs
Desirable
- Demonstrate clinical expertise and high levels of competency regarding assessing and managing children and young people with safety concerns. This will include evidence of working within a positive safety management model of practice within either a mental health or learning disability setting.
- Demonstrate extensive experience of providing CAMHS related specialist training to other practitioners, including partner agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy recognised by AFT. Registration with UKCP
- Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW, Clin Psych
Desirable
- NVR Association Foundation level
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related mental health settings.
- Demonstrate expertise and extensive clinical experience of providing personalised care planning to meet mental health or learning disabilities needs
Desirable
- Demonstrate clinical expertise and high levels of competency regarding assessing and managing children and young people with safety concerns. This will include evidence of working within a positive safety management model of practice within either a mental health or learning disability setting.
- Demonstrate extensive experience of providing CAMHS related specialist training to other practitioners, including partner agencies
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).
