Job summary
THIS IS A FIXED TERM CONTRACT FOR 12 MONTHS
We are excited to recruit a Band 6 systemic practitioner /trainee family therapist to join the team in Peterborough Core CAMHS. This role requires you to work alongside our Lead Family Therapist in delivering individual family therapy assessment and intervention, as well as family therapy clinic.
This role will require seamless working with the local MDT, the wider CAMHS service and other professional agencies such as Acute trusts, the Local Authority Social Care and Education.
This is a rare opportunity for a systemic practitioner who is already enrolled on an accredited qualifying systemic course to work under supervision to consolidate their practice with families towards competence at qualifying level. The post-holder will be supported in co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions. These interventions are highly specialised, reflecting an expectation that the service will continue to develop innovative practices that are based on collaboration between clinicians, service users and carers, and commissioners of the service.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating, developing and delivering a variety of family and systemic interventions.
The post holder will be responsible for this process by researching new practices, understanding and applying evidence-based approaches both in 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.
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 description
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 undertake detailed and systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team. This will involve working face to face contact or remote 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.
- To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
- To provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
- Work autonomously with professional guidelines and within the multidisciplinary team.
- To deliver and complete clinical work across a range of contexts within out-patients and in ways that are flexible and focused on the needs of the young person and their family/carers.
Job description
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 undertake detailed and systemic assessment of children and families/wider systems as part of the CAMHS team. This will involve working face to face contact or remote 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.
- To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
- To provide risk assessments from a systemic/relational perspective.
- Work autonomously with professional guidelines and within the multidisciplinary team.
- To deliver and complete clinical work across a range of contexts within out-patients and in ways that are flexible and focused on the needs of the young person and their family/carers.
Person Specification
Education and Qualificatons
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, teaching, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
- Successful completion of the first two years of AFT accredited systemic training (Foundation and Intermediate Levels).
- To be enrolled on a Family therapy qualifying course (Year three or four)
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in another evidence-based therapeutic intervention
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with families, couples and other formats with more than one person in the room.
- Good knowledge and experience of applying a range of systemic theories and interventions with individuals and families.
- Knowledge of and an ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse families and communities in an anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory manner
- Post-qualification experience of assessments, care planning and interventions with children, young people, families or carers.
- Experience of undertaking mental health risk assessments and risk management with children and young people
Desirable
- Experience of working in family therapy clinic setting, as part of a family therapy team
- Working towards agreed targets, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Experience of working with children with complex mental health conditions or developmental needs.
- Lived experience of mental health.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work in the context of a family therapy team and to use live and retrospective systemic supervision effectively.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and can keep clear and accurate clinical records.
- Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision making.
- Ability to manage own caseload and demonstrate effective time management.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Ability to assess and treat children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorder or learning difficulties, making reasonable adjustments where needed.
- Ability to teach, train and supervise
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of systemic theory, methods and interventions.
- Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of child development
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work flexible hours.
Desirable
- Ability to travel across the county and to various locations/service user homes on short notice
Person Specification
Education and Qualificatons
Essential
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, teaching, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
- Successful completion of the first two years of AFT accredited systemic training (Foundation and Intermediate Levels).
- To be enrolled on a Family therapy qualifying course (Year three or four)
Desirable
- Post-graduate training in another evidence-based therapeutic intervention
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with families, couples and other formats with more than one person in the room.
- Good knowledge and experience of applying a range of systemic theories and interventions with individuals and families.
- Knowledge of and an ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse families and communities in an anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory manner
- Post-qualification experience of assessments, care planning and interventions with children, young people, families or carers.
- Experience of undertaking mental health risk assessments and risk management with children and young people
Desirable
- Experience of working in family therapy clinic setting, as part of a family therapy team
- Working towards agreed targets, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Experience of working with children with complex mental health conditions or developmental needs.
- Lived experience of mental health.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work in the context of a family therapy team and to use live and retrospective systemic supervision effectively.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and can keep clear and accurate clinical records.
- Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision making.
- Ability to manage own caseload and demonstrate effective time management.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Ability to assess and treat children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorder or learning difficulties, making reasonable adjustments where needed.
- Ability to teach, train and supervise
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of systemic theory, methods and interventions.
- Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of child development
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work flexible hours.
Desirable
- Ability to travel across the county and to various locations/service user homes on short notice
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).
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).
