Job summary
We are looking for a committed and forward-thinking 8a Systemic Psychotherapist to join our HPFT Specialist CAMHS service. We are an innovative and dynamic service offering a range of psychological therapies across the teams and have close working relationships with other agencies including the local 'tier 2' CAMHS service, school link workers and children's social services
You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a high standard of service to children and adolescents with a mental health problem and their families / carers; you will be responsible for the provision of family and individual psychotherapy to this group of people. As a service, we are keen to promote CPD and research opportunities, and we offer placements to trainees within all psychological therapies and have strong links with local training courses - We value clinical supervision, both peer group and individual!
Main duties of the job
As the band 8a Psychotherapist, you will be expected to
- Work within professional guidelines and under the clinical / professional supervision of senior clinicians of own core profession
- Provide clinical / professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for the purposes of training and continual professional development
- Contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development
- Work closely with Tier 3 and Tier 4 services in CAMHS, including eating disorder inpatient units & Home Treatment Team
- Provide supervision as agreed with Consultant Lead Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Undertake research, audit and evaluation for service development
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide systemic assessments and systemic psychotherapy for children, adolescents and their families, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines and drawing on a wide range of models andtechniques.
- Formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence e.g. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines
- Responsible for and care coordinate a substantial caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work and to identify priorities of action in complex circumstances, contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence based therapeutic intervention within the CAMHS Team (for example Specialistprovision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT)
- 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
For more detail, please check the job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work autonomously as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide systemic assessments and systemic psychotherapy for children, adolescents and their families, practicing at a high level of clinical expertise and within relevant Codes of Practice and ethical guidelines and drawing on a wide range of models andtechniques.
- Formulate a range of treatment options based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence e.g. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines
- Responsible for and care coordinate a substantial caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work and to identify priorities of action in complex circumstances, contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence based therapeutic intervention within the CAMHS Team (for example Specialistprovision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT)
- 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
For more detail, please check the job description
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession (e.g. nursing, psychology, psychiatry, social work) or equivalent, and demonstrable practice over a minimum of 2 years
- Masters/Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent.
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience as a systemic psychotherapist
- Minimum of six years experience of working with adolescents and/or adults and families in a relevant mental health or social welfare setting or equivalent
- Registration with UKCP
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of working with young people under 18 with eating disorders
Desirable
- Additional specialist training in mental health (e.g. Eating Disorders, PTSD, ADHD, Self-harm)
Communication Skills
Essential
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Highly developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, at an age appropriate level, complex and highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS, including reports for courts and case conferences if necessary
- Highly developed ability to work and communicate effectively with others in order to convey complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside the NHS
- Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with parents and young people suffering with an eating disorder
Physical Skills
Essential
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession (e.g. nursing, psychology, psychiatry, social work) or equivalent, and demonstrable practice over a minimum of 2 years
- Masters/Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent.
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience as a systemic psychotherapist
- Minimum of six years experience of working with adolescents and/or adults and families in a relevant mental health or social welfare setting or equivalent
- Registration with UKCP
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of working with young people under 18 with eating disorders
Desirable
- Additional specialist training in mental health (e.g. Eating Disorders, PTSD, ADHD, Self-harm)
Communication Skills
Essential
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Highly developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, at an age appropriate level, complex and highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS, including reports for courts and case conferences if necessary
- Highly developed ability to work and communicate effectively with others in order to convey complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside the NHS
- Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with parents and young people suffering with an eating disorder
Physical Skills
Essential
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving
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).
