Trainee/ Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and are looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

We are seeking to recruit to two roles one in our Mood and Relationships Service, based in Exeter and the other in our Urgent Care Pathway, with a choice of bases across Devon.

We would welcome applications from both qualified Family Therapists and from those with intermediate qualification who are interested to complete the MSC Family Therapy qualification. In this scenario you would be employed on a Band 6 Trainee Family Therapist contract whilst you are training and then move into a Band 7 Family Therapist role upon achieving the qualification.

For applicants interested in a trainee opportunity, please download and complete the following application form from the Exeter University website, https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/psychology/mscptprsystemic/

Please send this completed form to cfhd.workforce@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Interviews will be held on June 27th and July 5th.

To provide specialist systemic assessments and evidence-based systemic therapeutic interventions to children, adolescents and their families.

Within this role the post holder will:-

Hold an appropriate caseload and undertake a key worker role for children with complex needs in the community.

Undertake assessments, including risk assessments, contribute to care planning and deliver evidence-based interventions in collaboration with children, young people and their carers.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team offering evidence-based interventions.

Work across pathways and geographical areas as required, according to need and demand.

Ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal based, collaborative practice and routine outcome measures.

Undertake further training to qualify as a Systemic Psychotherapist, leading to registration with AFT (Association of Family Therapy) when qualified

About us

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Date posted

28 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year pro rata (18.75 hours per week)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9369-24-0464

Job locations

Evergreen

Victoria Park Road

Exeter

EX2 4NU

South Devon Healthcare

187 Newton Road

Torquay

TQ2 7BA

Integrated Childrens Services

Fishleigh Road

Roundswell Business Park

Barnstaple

Devon

EX31 3UD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see full job descriptions attached to this advert: Trainee Job Description and Qualified Job Description

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see full job descriptions attached to this advert: Trainee Job Description and Qualified Job Description

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Active registration with the UKCP as a Systemic and Family Therapist

Desirable

Post qualification specialist therapy / assessment training relevant to children and young people
Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision

Experience

Essential

Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
Experience of working systemically with a range of children and young people with complex needs, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring their safety in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice
Experience of initiating, attending and contributing to multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.
Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required

Desirable

Experience of undertaking specialist assessment and evidence-based systemic interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

Ability to travel across Devon and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits
High level knowledge of clinical presentations in children/young people

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Active registration with the UKCP as a Systemic and Family Therapist

Desirable

Post qualification specialist therapy / assessment training relevant to children and young people
Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision

Experience

Essential

Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
Experience of working systemically with a range of children and young people with complex needs, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring their safety in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice
Experience of initiating, attending and contributing to multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.
Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required

Desirable

Experience of undertaking specialist assessment and evidence-based systemic interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

Ability to travel across Devon and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits
High level knowledge of clinical presentations in children/young people

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.