Job summary
Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
8a, Permanent, full-time (1.0wte)
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a prominent mental health trust which combines patient services, research and consultancy with a national remit for delivering mental health-related education and training.
Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your experience as a senior Family Therapist or step up to such a role? If so, we have a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who has passion for community CAMHS and innovative ways of working and who wish to develop leadership and management skills.
Main duties of the job
This post is an integral part of the service with varied and exciting opportunities. You will offer clinical and line management supervision for junior members of staff including qualified Family Therapists, Systemic Practitioner and Trainees. You will have a leadership role in the systemic discipline in the team and oversee the systemic therapy provisions in the team. You will be offering consultation for colleagues and network. You will be part of the Camden CAMHS's Clinical Intake structure, attend referrals meetings and provide support to junior clinicians with intake work. You will be part of the exciting development towards the Integrated Front Door, a single point of entry for CYP for the Local Authority and CAMHS.
You will provide direct clinical input to children, young people and their families/carers. As a senior clinician you will be providing services to clients presenting with a high level of risk and complexity in a multi-agency environment. You will deliver CAMHS input for schools as part of our schools programme.
As one of the senior members of the team, you will work alongside other senior staff and contribute to the team's development, as we continue to strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. There will be a number of opportunities to develop your leadership and strategic skills with support from senior colleagues.
About us
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world's leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached Job description and person specification for more details about the roles and responsibilities of the vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached Job description and person specification for more details about the roles and responsibilities of the vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession (such as Social Work, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, Nursing or Counselling) and post-qualifying experience in the first profession
- MSc qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy
- Full and current registration as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP
- Qualification of Systemic and Family Therapy Supervision and registration with AFT as a systemic supervisor, or currently undertaking training and is due to be registered in near future or willingness and ability to undertake the training in future
- Training in safeguarding issues and contextual safeguarding issues, e.g. CSE, CCE, domestic violence/abuse
Desirable
- Training in parenting interventions, e.g. Incredible Years, Non-Violence Resistance parenting groups
- Additional training in other therapeutic approaches, e.g. trauma-focused work, mindfulness, mentalization-based therapy, VIG, motivational interviewing
- Training in Quality Improvement
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working in the relevant first profession with children, young people, parents/carers and families, including the ability to work autonomously.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with children, young people, parents/carers, families and professional network, including the ability to work autonomously.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging client populations requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with multi-agency/professional networks and awareness of issues for such networks and teams.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working in a community CAMHS setting and conducting CAMHS assessments and interventions.
- Experience of the application of CAMHS assessments and interventions within a multi-cultural framework.
- Substantial experience of working with a high level of complexity and risk, risk assessment and management in various areas of risks, including mental health and safeguarding risks.
- Substantial experience in working in partnership with the Local Authority/Children's Social Care and wider network to manage cases with a high level of safeguarding concerns including abuse, neglect and contextual safeguarding issues and cases in/near care proceedings
- Experience of working with children and families within a community multi-professional team.
- Experience in engaging hard to reach populations in community CAMHS.
- Experience of providing systemic consultations regarding complex clinical matters in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context.
- Experience of working as a CAMHS clinician in an outreach setting.
- Substantial experience of providing systemic supervision
- Experience of using outcome measures in a CAMHS setting
Desirable
- Experience of parenting assessment for Court and writing reports for care proceedings as expert witness
- Experience of conducting research in a clinical setting.
- Experience of providing systemic supervision to qualified family & systemic psychotherapists and other professionals
- Experience of providing live supervision to a family therapy team
- Experience of line management in CAMHS
- Experience of delivering training and teaching on a range of relevant topics, including CAMHS issues and systemic approaches
- Experience of working with children with neuro-developmental disorders, such as ASD and ADHD.
- Experience of running groups, e.g. groups for CYP and parenting programme
- Experience of Quality Improvement projects
- Experience of service user involvement initiatives
- Experience of service development and being involved with strategic developments of services
- Experience of supporting other staff with using outcome measures and embedding them organisationally in a CAMHS setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession (such as Social Work, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, Nursing or Counselling) and post-qualifying experience in the first profession
- MSc qualification in family/systemic psychotherapy
- Full and current registration as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP
- Qualification of Systemic and Family Therapy Supervision and registration with AFT as a systemic supervisor, or currently undertaking training and is due to be registered in near future or willingness and ability to undertake the training in future
- Training in safeguarding issues and contextual safeguarding issues, e.g. CSE, CCE, domestic violence/abuse
Desirable
- Training in parenting interventions, e.g. Incredible Years, Non-Violence Resistance parenting groups
- Additional training in other therapeutic approaches, e.g. trauma-focused work, mindfulness, mentalization-based therapy, VIG, motivational interviewing
- Training in Quality Improvement
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working in the relevant first profession with children, young people, parents/carers and families, including the ability to work autonomously.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with children, young people, parents/carers, families and professional network, including the ability to work autonomously.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging client populations requiring skilled and complex interventions.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working with multi-agency/professional networks and awareness of issues for such networks and teams.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist of working in a community CAMHS setting and conducting CAMHS assessments and interventions.
- Experience of the application of CAMHS assessments and interventions within a multi-cultural framework.
- Substantial experience of working with a high level of complexity and risk, risk assessment and management in various areas of risks, including mental health and safeguarding risks.
- Substantial experience in working in partnership with the Local Authority/Children's Social Care and wider network to manage cases with a high level of safeguarding concerns including abuse, neglect and contextual safeguarding issues and cases in/near care proceedings
- Experience of working with children and families within a community multi-professional team.
- Experience in engaging hard to reach populations in community CAMHS.
- Experience of providing systemic consultations regarding complex clinical matters in a multidisciplinary / multiagency context.
- Experience of working as a CAMHS clinician in an outreach setting.
- Substantial experience of providing systemic supervision
- Experience of using outcome measures in a CAMHS setting
Desirable
- Experience of parenting assessment for Court and writing reports for care proceedings as expert witness
- Experience of conducting research in a clinical setting.
- Experience of providing systemic supervision to qualified family & systemic psychotherapists and other professionals
- Experience of providing live supervision to a family therapy team
- Experience of line management in CAMHS
- Experience of delivering training and teaching on a range of relevant topics, including CAMHS issues and systemic approaches
- Experience of working with children with neuro-developmental disorders, such as ASD and ADHD.
- Experience of running groups, e.g. groups for CYP and parenting programme
- Experience of Quality Improvement projects
- Experience of service user involvement initiatives
- Experience of service development and being involved with strategic developments of services
- Experience of supporting other staff with using outcome measures and embedding them organisationally in a CAMHS setting
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Address
North Camden Community Team, Camden CAMHS, Tavistock Centre
Tavistock Centre 120 Belsize Lane London NW3 5BA
London
NW3 5BA
Employer's website
https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
