Band 8a Family Therapist- CAMHS

East of England, East of England

Permanent

£50,952 to £57,349

Other Allied

Band 8a Family Therapist- CAMHS

Job summary

As a result of ongoing recruitment within CAMHS at LPT, we are looking to appoint a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to principally work at CAMHS The Beacon Inpatient Unit and also to support the CAMHS Crisis Team at times when the number of young people occupying inpatient beds is below capacity.

Ideally, you will be an experienced and qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with current UKCP registration and have experience of clinical leadership and working with complex mental health needs in both inpatient and community services.

The team currently consists of clinicians from a wide range of disciplines: Psychiatry, Psychology, Dietetics, Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy.

Staff work closely with CAMHS Specialist Teams, Inpatient and Adult services while also having connections with the wider MDT within the community. We offer early specialist assessment and intervention using evidence-based approaches to young people up to the age of 18 years old and their families.

We are especially keen to hear from candidates who reflects the diverse communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

Some of the duties you will undertake within this role include:

To undertake detailed & highly specialist psychological and systemic assessments of children and families. This will involve face to face contact with young people and families.
To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic interventions for individuals and their families.
To create and deliver, participate in, and sustain highly developed therapeutic interventions,
The delivery of an agreed package of care, to young people and families.
The provision of highly specialist one-to-one clinical consultations to other clinical staff, contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and intervention plans.
Contribute to the requirements of CPD provision and support the learning of multi-disciplinary staff team at all levels of expertise.
Participating in multidisciplinary meetings, child protection case conference and reviews.
To participate, when appropriate, in an area of a special clinical interest, clinical group or clinical problem.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual young people and to provide advice to other professionals on the systemic aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of young people and their families

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are interested in this role, please see the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualification in relevant mental health / social welfare profession and
demonstrable practice over a minimum of 3 years within that profession
Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with UKCP
UKCP registration which is maintained through meeting relevant AFT CPD requirements.
Continued registration with relevant organisation in relation to primary professional qualification

Desirable

Systemic Supervisory Training
Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of therapeutic practice

Experience

Essential

Minimum three years practice in relevant first profession
Assessed experience of working as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist for a minimum of 2 years or substantial previous relevant clinical experience or newly qualified systemic psychotherapist with both substantial and significant previous relevant clinical experience and family therapy experience within the designated speciality where the post is located
Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with clients
Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience of working with a range of childhood and adult disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
Experience of risk assessment and risk management
Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families

Desirable

Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for systemic care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Experience of teaching, training &/or supervision.
Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.

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.