Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Westminster seeks a Systemic Therapist for a full-time permanent position in their CAMHS team. The role requires expertise in family therapy and a solid understanding of mental health issues to provide assessments and interventions. Ideal candidates will have a postgraduate qualification in systemic therapy and relevant experience within a multidisciplinary team. The position encourages professional development and offers opportunities to contribute to quality care for children and young people.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Dynamic work environment

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team in CAMHS.
• Ability to form complex clinical judgments based on assessments.
• Knowledge and experience in managing a range of mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Conduct family assessments for children referred to the team.
• Formulate and implement care plans based on best practices.
• Provide a specialist family therapy service across care sectors.
• Contribute to assessments of children with complex presentations.

Skills

Family therapy

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Research skills

Communication

Education

Postgraduate qualification in systemic therapy

Registration with a relevant professional body

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide family assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate and implement Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Be responsible for implementing a range of family therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy. These will include long and short‑term interventions as appropriate to need.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management. Provide a specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi‑disciplinary CAMHS service. Provide specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advise and consult on their care to non‑family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. Utilize research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people, their families and carers.
• Provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with learning disability, young offenders, refugees and asylum seekers and eating disorders.
• Contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and eating disorders and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence‑based interventions. Undertake parenting capacity assessment as part of a multidisciplinary court assessment service.
• Provide advice and consultation to non‑family therapists in the service on family therapy and systemic interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and non‑family therapists.

We’re passionate about delivering first‑class patient‑centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and an equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, neuro‑developmental disorders, enhancement treatment, learning disabilities and more—whatever stage of your career you’re at, there’s always a place for you at CNWL.

This is a full‑time permanent post and is part of a well‑established systemic discipline where professional development and innovative work is actively encouraged.

Westminster CAMHS is a very dynamic & friendly service which welcomes new skills and new ideas. It is part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust. We are committed to collaborative multi‑disciplinary work and there are very good links with partnership agencies in the borough.

The post will be supervised by the Lead Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in Westminster Tier 3 CAMHS and line‑managed by the Team Manager.

Westminster is a culturally diverse borough and we are keen to provide culturally appropriate services to families. We are looking for an enthusiastic systemic therapist who has a good amount of CAMHS experience and is able to integrate quickly into a busy CAMHS team.

To find out more about working in CAMHS please click here for video.