Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist
- NHS
- Part Time
- Nottingham
- 53755.00 - 60504.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
The NHS has committed in the Long-Term Plan to improving care for children and young people with complications related to severe obesity. In the East Midlands 2.5% of reception and 4.7% of year 6 children are severely obese (BMI >99.6th percentile). NHS England have commissioned specialist Complications related to Excess Weight (CEW) clinics across the country to start to develop a systematic approach to gathering evidence and optimising treatment for this cohort. This is an exciting new role for a psychotherapist to be embedded within the hospital MDT to provide a comprehensive psychotherapy service to children, young people, and their families attending the new CEW service.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of highly specialist systemic and family psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, their families and/or carers within the Paediatric CEW Clinic at Nottingham.
To work autonomously within professional and trust guidelines and manage an individual caseload comprising particularly complex systemic assessments, treatment and consultation work.
To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy to patients diagnosed with severe obesity associated with complications and their families
To provide highly specialist advice regarding diagnosis and treatment to professional medical and nursing colleagues at Nottingham Children's Hospital, CAMHS, external agencies eg. social care, schools
To undertake complex multi-agency work with outside agencies (for example community paediatrics, education, social care) and colleagues within the Trust.
To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist provision of specific projects and services under the supervision of the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric CEW Team at Nottingham.
To take responsibility for contributing to research, audit, policy and service development in line with clinical governance standards.
Additional duties of the job are listed in the job description.
About us
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.
We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
As one of the NHS Trusts identified in the New Hospital Programme, a programme of investment in NHS hospitals, we have extensive plans to improve our hospitals and the services we deliver for patients.
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for further details - attached to this vacancy. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- 1. SCQF level 9 in healthcare related subject e.g. degree in nursing, occupational therapy, social work.
- 2. SCQF level 11 e.g. Masters level qualification in Family Therapy, Systemic Psychotherapy accredited at this level by AFT.
- 3. Current UKCP Registration: meeting CPD requirements including relevant short and long training events
Desirable
- Relevant training/CPD in child and adolescent mental health
Experience
Essential
- Family therapy experience with children, adolescents and families
Desirable
- Experience of working in a CAMHS
- Experience of working with high risk young people
- Experience of assessment and post diagnostic work with children and young people
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Enthusiastic
- Adaptable
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of commitment to multidisciplinary team working
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups
Desirable
- Ability to communicate complex family therapy/systemic formulations to medical teams
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to work shifts/on call)
Essential
- Masters level skills in the use of complex methods of family therapy assessment and intervention with children and young people
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision
Desirable
- Trained supervisor in Systemic/Family therapy
- Quality Improvement training
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
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address
QMC
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
