Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and creative community team working with young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The Home Treatment Team work with 12-18-year-olds experiencing a crisis in their mental health wellbeing.
We provide a clinical assessment and intervention service for children and young people within the Home Treatment Team. Deliver mental health training, education and consultation to partner agencies, parents, carers, children and young people.
Work collaboratively with staff within other agencies to meet the complex mental health needs of children and young people in the city.
Work collaboratively and in multi-agency service delivery to support improved outcomes for children and young people belonging to vulnerable groups
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified highly specialist systemic family therapy service to clients acrossCambridgeshire and Peterborough Community within their homes. This post provides asystemic overview of the family approach to the treatment of complex mental healthdisorders. The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and deliveringa variety of family and systemic interventions. These interventions are highly specialised,reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices thatare based on collaboration between clinicians, service users and carers, andcommissioners of the service. The post holder will be responsible for this process byresearching new practices, understanding and applying evidence-based approaches bothin relation to family treatments and in the involvement of service users and carers.
The post-holder will be expected to offer advice and consultation on clients' care to all colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. The post does not have any budgetary responsibilities.
The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To be a member of the multi-disciplinary team within CAMHS and to proactively contribute to and participate in the provision, governance and ongoing development of the services provided.
- To be responsible for the provision of family and systemic psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level for young people and their families, carers and wider networks.
- Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients. These treatments may include the following systemic psychotherapy interventions;
- Family therapy (all family members present in the room at the same time, plus patient and other members of multi-disciplinary team).
- Separated family therapy (i.e. parental counselling and individual systemic counselling running in parallel).
- Multi-family group therapy
- To undertake detailed and highly specialist systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team. This will involve working face to face contact with children and families/carers to discuss and work through highly complex, sensitive and personal information related to their mental health presentation. This would also include the completion of personal and relational development, genograms, eco-maps, analysis and assessment of multiple levels of contextual meaning, deconstruction of current interactional patterns of behaviour and meaning around mental health issues and complex relationships, creating methods for client centred analysis of change through the use of live team observations/interventions, video recording and video recording analysis, relevant questionnaires and creative methods, and other systemic assessment tools.
- Provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
- 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, as well as working with carers and other representatives ofthe clients networks. To take a proactive stance in challenging racism and discrimination and support the development of a culturally competent service.
- Adjust and refine systemic formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining provisional hypotheses.
- To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/ social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of three years
- Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with the UKCP
- Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long training courses to meet AFT CPD requirements
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice
Experience
Essential
- Minimum three years practice in relevant first profession
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of providing systemic support to a multi-disciplinary team in the context of a high stress, high- anxiety environment
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and families of all ages
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and families with complex mental health problems.
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community and residential or educational.
- Experience of working with a range of child and adolescent disorders at the acute and chronic stage
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management from a systemic/relational perspective
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to create sustainable working alliance with service users, families, colleagues and other professionals.
- Specialist skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and the wider system setting
- Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration; ability to carry those out in crisis situation.
- Well-developed skills and the ...
