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Systemic Practitioner

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

London

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GBP 40,000 - 55,000

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5 days ago

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Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Systemic Practitioner for the Adult Eating Disorders Service. This role involves providing systemic input, working within a multidisciplinary team, and holding a caseload of families, while contributing to holistic assessments and therapeutic interventions. Candidates should have expertise in family psychotherapy and experience in clinical settings with a diverse clientele.

Qualifications

Experience working therapeutically with families.
Experience in a multidisciplinary context.
Clinical work with adults, children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive assessments of clients and their families.
Implement systemic interventions and evaluate outcomes.
Facilitate evidence-based therapeutic groups for clients.

Skills

Therapeutic Skills

Communication

Empathy

Education

Postgraduate qualification in family psychotherapy

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Job Overview

The post holder will provide systemic input to the Adult Eating Disorders Service, which is made up of an inpatient ward, day programme, intensive community pathway and outpatient services. The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team which consists of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Dieticians, Systemic Therapists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Cognitive Analytic Therapists. The post holder, together with the systemic therapists, will support the teams across the adult service to think systemically in case formulation and treatment plans, alongside holding a caseload of families.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service is an all age ED Service with a vibrant and skilled multidisciplinary team working across a a variety of evidence based treatment pathways targeted to the specific needs of different groups of patients.

You will have the opportunity to work with committed, innovative and compassionate colleagues, delivering high quality care and treatment at an exciting time of significant investment and expansion of services.

Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, pleaseclick on below videos:

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Working for our organisation

The service is located in Kensington (London) and provides a range of eating disorder treatments including outpatient therapy, day patient services and inpatient care.

There are places for 14 inpatients and 12 day patients at any one time, as well as an extensive outpatient department. The service has links to the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London), Imperial College Medical School and Royal Holloway (University of London), and facilitates evidence-based therapies and clinical judgement. Our specialist staff include psychiatrists, nurses, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, and other appropriate clinicians.

For individuals aged 17 and below, we offer specialist eating disorder treatment via our newly established Child and Young People’s Service.

Eating Disorders is a specialism within children’s mental health, therefore finding candidates with rich experience is really important.

The team consists of nursing, psychology, assistant psychologists, systemic psychotherapists, a dietician, paediatrician and psychiatry. We are expanding! Watch the short videos of what our staff say about working at the service.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To provide comprehensive and holistic assessments of clients, their families and/or carers that are referred to the Adult Service that synthesises information from a variety of sources.
To hold a caseload that covers clients from different parts of the Adult Service.
To be responsible for implementing, developing and evaluating systemic interventions for individuals and their families and/or carers. This includes signposting families and/or carers to community resources as well as supporting the team to develop a family-focused practice.
To provide and help facilitate evidence based therapeutic groups for clients and their families and/or carers, both separately and conjointly. These include skills workshops and support groups for families, partners and those in the network surrounding the client, as well as community meetings on the inpatient ward and day programme.
To help teams within the service to formulate and implement care plans for the treatment and management of the client based on using a systemic framework. This includes providing input in team meetings and ward rounds.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and their families and/or carers, and advice other professions in this area where appropriate
To communicate assessment, formulation and treatment plans to individual clients and their families and/or carers in a collaborative and sensitive manner
To monitor the progress of clients and be able to review the need to change the care plan where necessary
To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up all the boroughs in CNWL. At all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that shape different families experiences, beliefs and perceptions. This will include working with interpreters.
Education and Development
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
To complete and stay up to date with the CNWL mandatory training programme annually and within the required timescales.
To attend Staff Group with other colleagues in the service
To attend the Family Therapy Forum for peer supervision, case discussion and opportunity for overall systemic learning and development

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

Postgraduate qualification in family psychotherapy
State Registered Occupational Therapy, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Art Therapist, Doctoral Level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS, CBT therapist

Desirable criteria

Qualifying training in Family & Systemic psychotherapy

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working therapeutically with families
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary context involving such agencies as social services, education, health and the voluntary sector
Clinical work with adults, children and adolescents with a range of behavioural, emotional and family difficulties
Experience of the use of a range of therapeutic approaches

Desirable criteria

Experience of facilitating therapeutic group work
Work in eating disorders
Work in school setting.
Liaison and consultation work.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Knowledge of child development and assessment methods and procedures.
Knowledge of systemic and other approaches to therapy
The ability to elicit highly sensitive information, sometimes working with interpreters or advocates.
The ability to offer reassurance and empathy to clients who may be in a state of distress.
The ability to communicate sensitive information to a range of clinical cases

RESEARCH/ AUDIT

Essential criteria

Ability to contribute to QI projects

Desirable criteria

Audit and evaluation of clinical work

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care

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