Job summary
"*£6,500 relocation package available (criteria applies)"
We are pleased to be recruiting a Band 7 UKCP registered Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join Haringey Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The successful applicant will bebased in Generic CAMHS and contribute to the work of the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist family and systemic psychotherapy and consultation, alongside a range of generic work, drawing on their previous experience and interests.We are seeking a highly motivated and suitably experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist interested in working with children and adolescents presenting with a range of complex mental health needs. An aptitude and strong interest in engaging collaboratively and creatively alongside colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and wider service is essential. You will contribute to clinical supervision and training, in line with your experience
Main duties of the job
Haringey CAMHS is a lively and creative service with a skilled and committed staff group working in a borough with diverse ethnically and culturally communities. The population in Haringey is alsosocio-economically diverse, with areas of relative affluence and deprivation in the borough.
Haringey is one of three borough-based CAMHS services in Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health (BEH) Trust and a CYP-IAPT site. The service is currently in the process of rethinking the way mental health and emotional wellbeing need is responded to locally, in line with the principles of the I Thrive model. This is an exciting time to join the service, as we further develop our clinical offer and care pathways to meet referred need. We are keen to recruit a Family & SystemicPsychotherapist with energy and commitment to contribute to these developments.You will join the regular Family Therapy discipline meeting and there are opportunities to participate in Trust wide Systemic forums and CPD.
Please note interviews will take place on 9th June 2022.
About us
BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature with a view to formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescents mental health problems within the context of family and other systems. These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ research- based
- To work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children who are on the At Risk register and parents with mental health
- To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy, drawing on a range of models and approaches, and incorporating both short and long-term interventions. To practice in a way that is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system, including family members at a variety of developmental stages and taking account of the current emotional state of each individual
- To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic therapy drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain a number of provisional hypothesis in reaching a formulation and treatment
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, whilst taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child and their
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature with a view to formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescents mental health problems within the context of family and other systems. These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ research- based
- To work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children who are on the At Risk register and parents with mental health
- To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy, drawing on a range of models and approaches, and incorporating both short and long-term interventions. To practice in a way that is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system, including family members at a variety of developmental stages and taking account of the current emotional state of each individual
- To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic therapy drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain a number of provisional hypothesis in reaching a formulation and treatment
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, whilst taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child and their
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- MSc or Doctoral level training in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy and Professional registration with the UKCP
- Post graduate qualification in relevant mental health or social work qualification and demonstrable equivalent professional experience.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life cycle and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multiagency context
- Experience of providing support and consultation to other professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of running groups for young people or parents.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, and management of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- MSc or Doctoral level training in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy and Professional registration with the UKCP
- Post graduate qualification in relevant mental health or social work qualification and demonstrable equivalent professional experience.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life cycle and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multiagency context
- Experience of providing support and consultation to other professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of running groups for young people or parents.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, and management of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
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).
