Job summary
Have you completed your first two years of Family and Systemic training or completed the equivalent CYP-IAPT training? If so, this may well be the job for you. This post will allow you to continue to build your systemic practice and work as part of a lively CAMHS systemic discipline. You will have opportunities to extend your systemic skills through work with individuals, families and group work. Alongside your regular systemic supervision, there will also be opportunities for systemic mentoring. You will join the specialist family therapy clinic to offer screen and team interventions. You will also be part of the regular Trust wide discipline and training meetings.
Should you wish to continue your systemic training to MSC level, you will be supported to do so. Although funding cannot be guaranteed, this will include applying on your behalf for any HEE funding that becomes available.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly and innovative CAMHS team, within a large and well-established systemic discipline team across the Trust. As a CAMHS Practitioner with a systemic specialism you will be part of a CAMHS multi-disciplinary team, working with children and families with a range of mental health presentations.
The post-holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary clinic team and will provide a high standard of service to children, adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations. They will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and their families/carers in relation to a range complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems, within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT. The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own core profession.
All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with Community CAMHS Managers and Professional leads.
- To contribute to the provision of a specialist systemic psychotherapy service within the quadrant, including being a member of a specialist family therapy team, undertaking particular pieces of work identified as requiring specialist systemic interventions.
- To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
- To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with Community CAMHS Managers and Professional leads.
- To contribute to the provision of a specialist systemic psychotherapy service within the quadrant, including being a member of a specialist family therapy team, undertaking particular pieces of work identified as requiring specialist systemic interventions.
- To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
- To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Successful completion of the first two years of Systemic Training. Post graduate certificate in Systemic Practice. OR
- An accredited CYP-IAPT Training in Systemic Family Practice with post-graduate certificate equivalency. OR ? Currently a trainee on an MSC in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy.
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or equivalent related area, or experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems.
- Knowledge of a range of systemic interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
- Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk assessment.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures, NICE guidelines, Mental Health Act, Children's Act
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children/adolescents
Desirable
- Experience of group work models of family intervention and support.
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Successful completion of the first two years of Systemic Training. Post graduate certificate in Systemic Practice. OR
- An accredited CYP-IAPT Training in Systemic Family Practice with post-graduate certificate equivalency. OR ? Currently a trainee on an MSC in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy.
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or equivalent related area, or experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems.
- Knowledge of a range of systemic interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
- Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk assessment.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures, NICE guidelines, Mental Health Act, Children's Act
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children/adolescents
Desirable
- Experience of group work models of family intervention and support.
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
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).
