Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Family Psychotherapist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London seeks a qualified Systemic Psychotherapist to provide specialized psychotherapy to children and families referred to CAMHS. The role involves collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, service evaluation, and the opportunity to contribute to training and supervision for junior staff. Applicants should possess relevant postgraduate qualifications and be registered with UKCP.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in mental health or social welfare with practice experience.
• Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited by UKCP.
• Ongoing professional development as a registered Systemic Psychotherapist.

Responsibilities

• Provide systemic psychotherapy to young people and families.
• Contribute to service evaluation, research, and policy improvements.
• Manage clinical caseload and liaise with referrers.

Skills

Systemic psychotherapy

Clinical skills

Training and supervision

Cultural competence

Strong IT skills

Education

Post-graduate qualification in a relevant field

Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy

Registered with the UKCP

Job description

Overview

This is a new permanent post aimed at reshaping the systemic profession's structure and promoting systemic practice across Lambeth CAMHS. The post holder will work with the Lead Family Therapist to provide a range of assessment and therapeutic interventions and consultation to professionals supporting children, young people and families referred to CAMHS with mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental conditions. The role involves working in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments, managing an autonomous clinical caseload, and contributing to assessments, care planning and interventions for children and adolescents with support from the wider team. The post supports training opportunities with Kings and IoPPN and may include additional teaching, supervision and training clinics. This post is based at William Geoffrey House, London.

About us: The London Borough of Lambeth is diverse with a large child and youth population. Lambeth CAMHS works to improve access to services for all community groups and engages with local partners to provide learning opportunities for systemic practitioners and psychotherapists.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy to young people and their families under the care of Lambeth CAMHS, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• Think creatively, work flexibly and apply a range of clinical skills to support a complex range of service users and their networks.
• Provide systemic supervision and consultation, enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish in a psychologically safe environment.
• Contribute to service evaluation, audit and research, and work autonomously within AFT and UKCP guidelines, interpreting policies within defined parameters.

Careers and Operations

• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver assessments, care planning and interventions for children and adolescents; manage your own clinical caseload with support from the wider team.
• Contribute to service development, policy and practice improvements; liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals to develop and review care plans and lead network meetings as appropriate.
• Engage in teaching and supervision activities and provide supervision for junior staff and trainees in line with organisational needs.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant mental health or social welfare profession with demonstrable practice (Essential).
• Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent, accredited by UKCP (Essential).
• Registered with the UKCP as Systemic Psychotherapist with ongoing continuing professional development (Essential).

• Desirable: completed training in clinical supervision; additional training in a specialised area of systemic practice.

Experience

• Experience as a clinical specialist under supervision in community mental health services or social care; experience of providing systemic assessment, formulation and interventions for complex cases; experience of providing consultation to staff groups; experience working within a multicultural framework; experience carrying out research, audits or service evaluations (Essential).
• Desirable: experience engaging service users who face discrimination or crisis; experience teaching/training; work across multiple services in risk-related interventions; experience assessing neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD/ADHD.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of family and systemic psychotherapy theory and practice, assessments and interventions for various mental health presentations; knowledge of legislation relating to mental health, child and adult protection and equality (Essential).
• Desirable: knowledge of risk management for self-harm and harm to others; knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions; doctoral level knowledge of research methodology (Desirable).

Skills and Abilities

• Deliver psychotherapeutic, psychological and systemic interventions across cultural and other differences; communicate complex information sensitively; plan and schedule assessments and interventions; supervise trainees and qualified systemic psychotherapists; strong IT skills (Essential).
• Desirable: ability to provide teaching and training to other professional groups; highly specialist consultation skills within the multi-professional team.

Other Details

Disclosures: This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks. UK registration is required for applicants and sponsorship may be considered where applicable. The Trust supports applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges.