Principal Systemic Psychotherapist London

Job summary

To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks in keeping with NICE guidance

To provide highly specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.

To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

To provide supervision to qualified systemic psychotherapists and trainee systemic psychotherapists at Masters or Doctorate degree level.

To propose and implement policy changes and contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours.

To ensure high quality supervision and leadership with particular attention to clinical standards, risk management and governance.

To advise the team on all matters relating to the Family & Systemic psychotherapy discipline and its promotion.

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child's or adolescent's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence.

To assess complex children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment.

To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan.

To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the 'Child Protection Plan', and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language.

To provide highly specialist evidence based systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief interventions.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks in keeping with NICE guidance
• To provide highly specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
• To provide supervision to qualified systemic psychotherapists and trainee systemic psychotherapists at Masters or Doctorate degree level.
• To propose and implement policy changes and contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours.
• To ensure high quality supervision and leadership with particular attention to clinical standards, risk management and governance.
• To advise the team on all matters relating to the Family & Systemic psychotherapy discipline and its promotion.

Qualifications

Essential

• Has at least a Masters degree or Doctorate level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy

Desirable

• UKCP Registration

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience of working with families in a multi-disciplinary

Desirable

• Experience of supervising staff with complex cases.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations,

Desirable

• Skills in professional consultation; skills for offering consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.