Systemic Family Therapist - Hospital at Home - Oxford

inploi; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking a Family Therapist for their innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service. This role involves delivering intensive community support to young people at risk of hospitalization. The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate qualification in family therapy, along with experience in mental health settings. Benefits include career progression opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, increasing to 33

Access to learning and development opportunities

NHS Discount scheme

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience of assessment/intervention with children, young people, and families in a mental health setting.
• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities and/or Autism and their carers.
• Experience of supervision with therapists and other clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide a quality family therapy service to clients in the Hospital at Home service.
• Consult and support colleagues providing care and treatment.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines.

Skills

Family therapy

Mental health assessment

Collaboration with teams

Leadership and management

Education

Postgraduate qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy

Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP

Job description

Job overview

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
• Minimise stay length
• Avoid admission

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.

Working for our organisation

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
• Competitive pension scheme
• 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

Detailed job description and main 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 team’s 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 Essential criteria

• Postgraduate qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy.
• Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body.

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare (or established equivalence according to AFT criteria).

Experience Essential criteria

• 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.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of running / co-running groups
• Experience of other treatments options

Knowledge and Skills Essential criteria

• 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.

Documents to Download

JD&PS - Band 8A CAMHS LDA H@H Systemic Family Therapist (PDF, 672.3KB)

CAMHS LDA H@H systemic family therapist (PDF, 672.3KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Penny Foley

Title: Modern Matron

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