Family and Systemic Psychotherapist or Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Employ a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to develop a highly specialist understanding and to design specialized intervention programmes tailored to individual need.Be responsible for direct delivery of systemic interventions and programmes which require the modification of plans and strategies as practice and experience demands.

Offer adaptive and flexible approaches to service users who may have poor communication skills and self care and special physical and/or mental health needs.Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including use of interpreters for clinical work.Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals, MAPPA and other formal panels and statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and/or electronically, and as specified by the service.Provide appropriate specialist systemic assessments.Provide highly specialist couple and family interventions to Service Users in the PMHT, appropriate for service users experiencing complex difficulties in the perinatal period.Working jointly with the multidisciplinary team where appropriate.Engage in interface/liaison work to ensure joined up care pathways across settings and improve referral processes. Take the lead for a specified area for interface/liaison work as required.Contribute to the development of services that seek to acknowledge and address as appropriate existing health inequalities, collaborating with other leads including the borough lead for community inclusion.Take into account the particular needs of people from minority ethnic groups, and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate.Use your theoretical knowledge base and highly specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others in the team via the development and delivery of teaching, training, supervision, support and consultation.Be responsible for providing a systemic perspective/psychological expertise for service or team activities, including clinical care, team or service dynamics, systems, health promotion, team or service organisation, in a range of settings, e.g., case discussions, team meetings. Provide consultation and support to staff in interfacing services and to families and carers.Be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.Participate in the organisation and delivery of training events and consultancy covering this highly specialist area, and including work with local voluntary organisations.Participate in the evaluation of services, including collection of monitoring information as required.Formulate and undertake service related research and audit and support other staff in research activities as necessary.Receive regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines to ensure high quality work, to engage in the Individual Performance Review process and continuing professional development, and generally work within a clinical governance framework.Use computer data entry systems, record clinical input and outcome data. Collate this information and communicate it as appropriate to the responsible clinician or service lead.Contribute to the motoring and audit of work in the service.Offer line management and supervision as appropriate to psychology colleagues, including qualified psychologists and trainees.Participate in the appraisal and job planning of psychologists and other team members as appropriate.Participate, as appropriate, in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process, and as a member of selection panels for assistant, trainee and qualified psychologist posts.To make an active contribution to pursue the aims, objectives and overall strategy of the service thereby contributing to the development of clinical services provided within psychological therapies service.Observe personal duty of care in relationship to equipment and resources used in the course of clinical work.Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances arising from therapeutic contact with services users (including relatives and carers) requiring emotional engagement with material discussed, emotional self-regulation by the therapist and the delivery of a therapeutic response within professional boundaries. To provide emotional support as appropriate to professional colleagues.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Professional Qualification
• Master or Doctoral level training in F&S Psychotherapy
• PG Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (BPS)
• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training
• Knowledge of relevant research and literature relating to Perinatal psychology and systemic therapy
• Perinatal mental health Behavioural couples therapy (BCT)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified family therapist or clinical/counselling psychologist for at least 18 months
• Experience of offering systemic therapy to families with serious relationship difficulties and attachment difficulties.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team, with adult service users who have experienced moderate-severe mental health difficulties such as psychosis, personality disorder, PTSD, OCD, severe depression and anxiety.
• Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.

Desirable

• Experience of working with adults with mental health problems needing support to develop positive attachments with their children in the perinatal period
• Experience of working with risk issues and safeguarding, making referrals to statuary organisations where appropriate.
• Experience of supervising psychology colleagues.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Communication & Relationship skills
• Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
• Cultural awareness and competence
• Analytical & judgmental skills
• Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.
• IT competent

Desirable

• Research: Active research interests. Record of published research.

Other

Essential

• Physical & Mental effort
• Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
• Able to work to professional guidelines and in line with Trust values.
• Commitment to working as part of an MDT and within the framework of the secondary care psychology service.
• accountability for own work

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

C&H Centre for Mental Health

Homerton Row Homerton University Hospital

London

E9 6SR

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)