Systemic/Counselling Therapist for Families

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

The post-holder will work as a member of the Therapies team within the forensic directorate in the Specialist Division, part of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. This post is part of an initiative to improve the quality and culture as well as the therapeutic offer available in the forensic inpatient and community services.

The post carries a specific remit to lead the Family Intervention work within the forensic service as well as working with the ward and community teams to develop an awareness of referral and intervention processes. To work within a multi-disciplinary group of clinicians who will have ad hoc input into working with families to ensure they have the necessary skills, support and appropriate referrals.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality specialist family intervention service within forensic inpatient and community services. This will involve coordinating and screening referrals and delivering and co-facilitating short term family interventions, and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams, where appropriate.
The post-holder will be responsible for providing consultation to clinical teams as well as direct support and interventions with referred families and service users.
The post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members including the provision of joint assessments with other clinicians.
The post-holder will supervise family intervention work by other professionals and provide.
The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinician who work within the family service as well as supervising junior member of the therapies team where appropriate and directed by the Head of Therapies.
The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the family service within NLFS.

About us

The NLFS is an OUTSTANDING service that provides innovative and progressive forensic care for a wide catchment area, namely Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet and Enfield. The catchment area is exceptionally ethnically diverse with an extremely high level of psychiatric morbidity and social deprivation.

The service provides excellent training opportunities both internally and externally and has a robust research group, quality improvement group and works within a trauma informed care model. It prides itself on providing responsive, compassionate and innovative care with co-production as its heart.

The service has a well embedded user engagement strategy and is keen to expand its carer, friends and family service through strong leadership and multi disciplinary working.

Date posted

17 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,703 to £59,796 a year Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

306-BEH-805

Job locations

Chase Farm Hospital

The Ridgeway

Enfield

EN2 8JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Person Spec

Essential

Doctorate level training or equivalent in Systemic therapy or Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist.
Completion of clinical psychology supervisors training or be eligible to undertake it
first degree level and registration with HCPC or NMC in a core profession (clinical/counselling psychology, social work,

Desirable

Experience of developing therapeutic approaches and treatment programmes in response to patient need
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of the application of therapy in different cultural contexts

Person Specification

Person Spec

Essential

Doctorate level training or equivalent in Systemic therapy or Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist.
Completion of clinical psychology supervisors training or be eligible to undertake it
first degree level and registration with HCPC or NMC in a core profession (clinical/counselling psychology, social work,

Desirable

Experience of developing therapeutic approaches and treatment programmes in response to patient need
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of the application of therapy in different cultural contexts

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).