Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our new Eating Disorders Day Programme Service for children and young people.
The service is a collaboration between CNWL and West London NHS Trust. Our amazing new building is opposite Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in the heart of London and has been co-designed with young people.
This is an integrated paediatric-CAMHS Day Programme providing an enhanced level of care in the community following specialist inpatient treatment and step-up care from the community for young people with eating disorders and complex physical and psychiatric co-morbidity.
The service provides a structured and time limited programme of interventions delivered by a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be a senior team member and provide specialist Family Therapy support to children and young people and their families and carers who attend the Day Programme.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a senior team member and provide specialist Family Therapy support to children and young people and their families and carers who attend the Day Programme.
You will provide core Family Therapy interventions as group and individual therapeutic interventions.
You will you will be responsible for a caseload of patients, co-ordinating their care under the Care Programme Approach.
About us
The Eating Disorders team is a highly skilled, strong and supportive team with excellent supervision structures. We are looking for exceptional individuals with the right attitude, skills and knowledge who share our passion to deliver the best quality care experience for children and their families.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the role are to provide assessments of children and young people referred to the service, who will receive a 3 week intensive family based intervention. This intervention will be following the principles of Family Based Treatment (FBT), and you will be leading on the delivery of this by the MDT both with individual families and in groups, as well as supporting families at meal times.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Be responsible for implementing a range of therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, grounded in the theory, principles and techniques of systemic therapy.
To provide clinical supervision to trainees, less experienced family therapists and non-family therapists.
Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young peoples formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To be responsible for the management of a caseload as allocated and in line with agreed job plan and service demand, and act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the role are to provide assessments of children and young people referred to the service, who will receive a 3 week intensive family based intervention. This intervention will be following the principles of Family Based Treatment (FBT), and you will be leading on the delivery of this by the MDT both with individual families and in groups, as well as supporting families at meal times.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Be responsible for implementing a range of therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, grounded in the theory, principles and techniques of systemic therapy.
To provide clinical supervision to trainees, less experienced family therapists and non-family therapists.
Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young peoples formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To be responsible for the management of a caseload as allocated and in line with agreed job plan and service demand, and act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification and current registration as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with UKCP
- oPost-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice in this field
Desirable
- oTraining in and experience in delivering multi-family groups and/or other therapeutic group interventions
Previous Experience
Essential
- oExperience of receiving professional supervision across a range of patient needs
- oExperience of partnership-working in promoting socially-inclusive opportunities for patients
- oExperience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
- oExperience of delivering group work
- oExperience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of patients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in eating disorders
Desirable
- oSpecialist experience of supporting the MDT to draw on systemic ideas and models in the way they understand and support patients and their families/carers
- oSpecialist experience of working with people with eating disorders
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oTo administer specialist psychotherapeutic assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- oTo deliver psychotherapy across cultural and other differences
- oTo communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with patients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- oTo plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual patients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews
- oTheoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for eating disorder treatment
- oAdvanced knowledge of a range of a range of systemic models in assessment and treatment, including knowledge of specific family and systemic theories and evidence
- oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- oGood communication skills i.e. written, verbal, listening and proficient use of up to date systems of communication (i.e. IT systems, e-mail, fax, telephone etc)
- oSkills in producing timely, accurate and informative reports and notes
- oGood organisational skills and an ability to delegate effectively
- oAbility to work autonomously, as well as part of an MDT
- oAbility to manage conflict constructively
- oAbility to prioritise workload and use initiative
- oAbility to identify and undertake appropriate learning and development opportunities regularly as part of ongoing CPD
- oAbility to adopt a culturally-sensitive approach that considers the needs of the whole person
Desirable
- oSpecialist knowledge of the risks associated with eating disorders
Personal characteristics
Essential
- oHigh level of personal motivation
- oFlexibility and creativity in approach
- oAwareness of self in relation to others, with the ability to set and manage boundaries
- oDemonstration of self-awareness and an ability to use initiative
- oAbility to prioritise and structure own workload
- oAbility to make decisions and problem solve for routine and complex problems
- oCommitment to learning and development
- oPositive role model for junior staff
- oAbility to work constructively under pressure
- oInterpersonal skills which enable constructive relationships to be built.
- oCommitment to treating service users with respect and dignity at all times
- oThe ability to adapt working to changing conditions, such as the need to work remotely, run sessions and workshops virtually and use teleconferencing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification and current registration as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with UKCP
- oPost-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice in this field
Desirable
- oTraining in and experience in delivering multi-family groups and/or other therapeutic group interventions
Previous Experience
Essential
- oExperience of receiving professional supervision across a range of patient needs
- oExperience of partnership-working in promoting socially-inclusive opportunities for patients
- oExperience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
- oExperience of delivering group work
- oExperience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of patients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in eating disorders
Desirable
- oSpecialist experience of supporting the MDT to draw on systemic ideas and models in the way they understand and support patients and their families/carers
- oSpecialist experience of working with people with eating disorders
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oTo administer specialist psychotherapeutic assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- oTo deliver psychotherapy across cultural and other differences
- oTo communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with patients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- oTo plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual patients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews
- oTheoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for eating disorder treatment
- oAdvanced knowledge of a range of a range of systemic models in assessment and treatment, including knowledge of specific family and systemic theories and evidence
- oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- oGood communication skills i.e. written, verbal, listening and proficient use of up to date systems of communication (i.e. IT systems, e-mail, fax, telephone etc)
- oSkills in producing timely, accurate and informative reports and notes
- oGood organisational skills and an ability to delegate effectively
- oAbility to work autonomously, as well as part of an MDT
- oAbility to manage conflict constructively
- oAbility to prioritise workload and use initiative
- oAbility to identify and undertake appropriate learning and development opportunities regularly as part of ongoing CPD
- oAbility to adopt a culturally-sensitive approach that considers the needs of the whole person
Desirable
- oSpecialist knowledge of the risks associated with eating disorders
Personal characteristics
Essential
- oHigh level of personal motivation
- oFlexibility and creativity in approach
- oAwareness of self in relation to others, with the ability to set and manage boundaries
- oDemonstration of self-awareness and an ability to use initiative
- oAbility to prioritise and structure own workload
- oAbility to make decisions and problem solve for routine and complex problems
- oCommitment to learning and development
- oPositive role model for junior staff
- oAbility to work constructively under pressure
- oInterpersonal skills which enable constructive relationships to be built.
- oCommitment to treating service users with respect and dignity at all times
- oThe ability to adapt working to changing conditions, such as the need to work remotely, run sessions and workshops virtually and use teleconferencing
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).
