Systemic Family Therapist (Under 5) CYP

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in London is seeking a Specialist Family Therapist to work within the new 0-5 pathway. The role includes conducting assessments and delivering systemic psychotherapy for children and families during critical developmental phases. Candidates must have substantial experience in systemic therapy and the ability to provide clinical supervision. Competitive salary offered on a pro-rata basis.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in a mental health discipline.
• Significant years of AFT recognized training in Systemic Psychotherapy.
• Post-qualification training in further specialized areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health and specialist systemic therapy assessments.
• Implement a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions.
• Evaluate treatment options considering complex factors.

Skills

Advanced skills in using systemic theories

Advanced skills in complex assessment

Advanced consultation skills

Advanced professional supervision skills

Knowledge of child development

Knowledge of trauma and attachment

Education

Professional qualification in mental health or social welfare

AFT recognized training in Systemic Psychotherapy

Post-qualification training in specialized therapeutic practice

Specialist training in clinical supervision

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic innovative Specialist Family Therapist to join the new north Tri-borough 0-5 pathway. The post-holder will be co-located in on the CAMHS teams and have a key role in working with the pathway lead to develop the systemic offer to the pathway.

The 0-5 team provides input to infants, toddlers and preschool children and couples/families in the pre and perinatal periods. This new service will provide a comprehensive range of assessment and therapeutic interventions, and consultation to professionals dealing with infants, young children and families.

The post-holder will conduct assessments and deliver evidence based systemic psychotherapy for a broad range of presentations between the ages of 0-5.

The post holder will have a leading role in the pathway and expected to provide clinical supervision to other clinicians and trainees. They will also be expected to provide specialist advice and consultation regarding treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working both autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

To provide mental health and specialist systemic therapy assessments of a significant and complex nature with a view of formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of an infant and young child's presentation within the context of family and other systems. These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ research-based evidence and information from appropriate rating scales, self-report measure, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care and service user feedback.

To 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 young child, family, or group.

To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions. Drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain several provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy, drawing on a range of models and approaches, and incorporating both short and long-term interventions. To practice in a way that is inclusive and considerate of the needs of everyone in the system, including family members at a variety of developmental stages and taking account of the current emotional state of each individual member.

To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions, specifically those with an evidence base in the 0-5 age group. Drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain several provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan.

Person Specification

Educartional

• Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline or agreed Association of Family Therapy (AFT) equivalent.
• A significant number of years of AFT recognized training leading to a qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy.
• Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized areas of therapeutic practice in under 5 working
• Specialist training in supervision that has led to 'approved' clinical supervisor status.

Skills

• Advanced skills in using a wide variety of systemic theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting.
• Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention, and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Advanced skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
• Advanced skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Advanced Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues. Advanced knowledge of trauma and attachment

Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a significant of three years, including a significant number of years of post-qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
• Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families when a child or adolescent has complex needs.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of using outcome measures.
• Experience of working with a range of childhood presentation at the acute and chronic stage.
• Experience working with parent-infant dyads and generally children under the age of 5

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.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearPer annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS