Job summary
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist Band 8a Wisteria Ward (CYP) (37.5hrs per week)
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist Band 8a Avalon Ward (adult) (22.5hrs per week)
We have exciting opportunities available for a range of systemic family therapy roles within both leading-edge adults and children and young people's eating disorder services. These services support both the direct work with children and young people and adults and their families on both the CAMHS and adult specialist eating disorder units and support the integrated eating disorder care pathways. We are looking for experienced family therapists interested in working in this fascinating area. Please note you do not need to have experience in eating disorders as we will provide support and training to develop this specialist knowledge.
The successful candidates for these roles will work closely with the multi-disciplinary teams in the respective servicesin the delivery of evidence based psychological systemic therapies.
Main duties of the job
The principal systemic family therapist (8a) will take a lead in providing supervision and guidance to the other family therapists and developing and integrating new systemic interventions and service offerings to families and staff.
Main duties across all roles
- Support the development of the delivery of evidence based systemic family therapies adapted to an in-patient setting in both adult and CAMHS settings.
- Participate in assessment and care planning for people admitted to the ward.
- Facilitate psycho-educational and parent support groups.
- Support nursing staff to implement care plans through the dissemination of systemic frameworks and interventions.
- Support management of ROMs and audit.
- Offer systemic family therapy to carers and clients using a range of systemic interventions and family therapy for anorexia nervosa (FT-AN) and the Maudsley models.
- Attend all multi-disciplinary meetings and care planning reviews.
- Run systemic consultations across the MDT and contribute to thinking about young people and their families from a systemic psychotherapy perspective.
- Set up and run reflecting team groups to develop systemic thinking across the staff groups.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
8a Systemic Family Therapist (Wisteria)
To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy services to children, young people and their families / carers, providing evidence-based systemic psychotherapy assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal systemic psychotherapy treatment and/or management of a child or young persons mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines.
To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
Within supervision, team meetings and other forums, to support and promote the use of measures within the quality frameworks to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
To work with the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service Professional Lead for Psychology and Psychotherapies to lead the work of a particular aspect of service provision.
8a Systemic family Therapist (Avalon)
To provide highly specialist systemic psychotherapy services to adult patients and their families / carers, providing evidence-based systemic psychotherapy assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal systemic psychotherapy treatment and/or management of a child or young persons mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines.
To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
Within supervision, team meetings and other forums, to support and promote the use of measures within the quality frameworks to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
To work with the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service Professional Lead for Psychology and Psychotherapies to lead the work of a particular aspect of service provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, and post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
Desirable
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
- Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
- Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
- Multi-family group therapy training.
- Training in FT-AN / FT-BN.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in relevant first profession
- Experience of working with young people, children and their families
- Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
- Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist systemic psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
- Experience of risk assessment and intervention with individuals their families and/or social networks
Desirable
- Experience of working with eating disorders
- Experience of working with interpreters
- Clinical Supervision Training
- Registration as Clinical Supervisor by Ass. For Family Therapy (AFT)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address
Springfield Hospital
Tooting
SW17 7DJ