Systemic Family Therapist - Hospital at Home - Oxford

Integrated Care System; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System in Oxford is looking for a Systemic Family Therapist to join their Hospital at Home team. This role involves providing intensive community support to young patients with learning disabilities and Autism, aimed at preventing hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharges. Candidates must hold a relevant postgraduate qualification and have experience in mental health settings. Excellent career progression opportunities and benefits await the successful applicant within the NHS framework.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Career progression opportunities

NHS discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Qualifications

• Experience with children, young people, and families in mental health settings.
• Skills in delivering therapy to clients with learning disabilities and Autism.
• Experience in teaching or training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Providing a quality family therapy service for Hospital at Home clients.
• Supporting colleagues through consultation and supervision.
• Autonomously working within professional and team guidelines.

Skills

Family therapy assessment

Clinical risk assessment

Effective treatments knowledge

Education

Postgraduate qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy

Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent

Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare

Job description

Systemic Family Therapist - Hospital at Home - Oxford

Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service?

Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?

Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues? LDA Hospital at Home is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.

In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team, shortening their inpatient admission. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

By managing the care pathway, we will be able to ensure that children and young people are cared for in an inpatient setting or via an 'out of hospital' service as close to home as possible. This will:

• Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
• Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
• Encourage early therapeutic home leave

Main duties of the job

As the family therapist in the team you will be able to bring your perspective to complex cases and situations to the LDA H@H team and the local teams, agencies and networks around the young people on the teams caseload. At times these cases may cause high levels of emotions and impact on individuals, you will also be integral to holding and supporting the team using a systemic framework on these cases.

You will be based in our new offices in the Meadow unit on the Warneford hospital site, there will be LDA Hospital at Home is a specialist service working with patients up to 18 years old with moderate to severe learning disability and autism. The Thames Valley Provider Collaborative is a network of service providers covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), working collaboratively to provide high quality care for the most unwell young people as close to home as possible.

We are currently recruiting our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) who will work with young people diagnosed with moderate to severe learning disabilities and autism, who are at risk of admission due to mental health difficulties.

You will be based in Oxford in our new offices located above the meadow unit on the Warneford site.

About us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting time to be part of the development of a new Tier 4 service for CAMHS. The LDA H@H team will have close links and working relationships across the Thames valley collaborative area to support existing provision across the patch. The main functions of the team are to prevent admission and facilitate earlier discharge.

We provide, accredited supervision by senior therapists to help you consolidate your therapy skills in a focused and supported way, monthly opportunities to meet psychological therapy colleagues from across the county for reflective practice groups, clinical updates, and professional development.

• To provide a quality family therapy service to the clients in the Hospital at Home service.
• To provide consultation, supervision, and support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment, according to expertise.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
• To utilize skills for audit, policy, service development and research

We would really like to hear from you, if you have skills in delivering therapy to this client group and can demonstrate:

• Evidence of significant knowledge in your specialist therapy area
• A good working knowledge of effective treatments,
• Sound clinical risk assessment and management,
• Experience of supervision with therapists and other clinical staff
• Experience of leadership and management of therapy staff.

Person Specification

• Postgraduate qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy.
• Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body.
• Post graduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare (or established equivalence according to AFT criteria).

Experience

• Experience of assessment /intervention with children, young people and families in a mental health or equivalent setting.
• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities and/or Autism and their carers.
• Participation in teaching or training.
• Experience of running / co-running groups
• Experience of other treatments options

Knowledge and Skills

• Specialist knowledge and application of family therapy assessment, interventions and family therapy process relevant to client group.
• Knowledge of evidence base in relation to child mental health.
• Knowledge and application of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities.
• Detailed knowledge of mental health legislation and current practice.

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.