Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health service provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Family Therapist registered with UKCP to provide specialized systemic family therapy for older adults. The role involves assessing and treating complex mental health presentations, creating a supportive environment for service users and their families. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, promoting service evaluation and research while delivering clinical supervision. Join a renowned organization that values professional development and high-quality mental health care.

Qualifications

• Experience working with older adults and their families.
• Ability to create a psychologically safe environment.
• Skills in evaluation, audit, and research promotion.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy to older adults and their families.
• Conduct specialist assessments, treatment planning, and monitoring.
• Facilitate staff support and participate in multidisciplinary teamwork.

Skills

Systemic family therapy

Clinical supervision

Autonomous professional practice

Education

Registered with UKCP

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the secondary mental health Psychology & Psychotherapy Service for Older People as a Senior Family Therapist registered with UKCP for 0.6 WTE. The role involves the provision of systemic family therapy to service users over the age of 65 (and their families). Referrals present with various complex and chronic mental health presentations, and sometimes other comorbid physical conditions, as well as social care needs.

Responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy to Older Adults and their families under the care of the Psychology & Psychotherapy Service for Older Adults; including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within AFT and UKCP guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
• To work alongside Multi-Disciplinary Team colleagues, with an understanding of the issues experienced by older adults and their families, and an interest in working with older adults and their networks (prior experience with this age-group is not essential).

About the employer

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employs around 5,000 staff and serves a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, we provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.