About this role
Job summary
Join Our Dunstable CAMHS Team
We are looking for a creative, forward-thinking and motivated Systemic Family Therapist to join our friendly, supportive and highly skilled multidisciplinary Emotional and Behavioural CAMHS Team in Dunstable, part of the South Bedfordshire Specialist CAMHS Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a service that values collaboration, innovation and reflective practice. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is recognised and celebrated, and where we actively consider the impact of racial, cultural, social and economic contexts on the young people, families and communities we support. Our work is underpinned by compassion, respect and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality care. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and would be happy to consider flexible working requests.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
The successful applicant will bring significant experience of working with young people, including within CAMHS, and a passion for systemic thinking and family-focused interventions.
You will provide systemic assessment and therapeutic interventions for young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties, working closely with their families, carers and wider support networks. The role includes undertaking generic CAMHS assessments where required and contributing to the wider multidisciplinary assessment and treatment pathway.
Working alongside our experienced Band 8A Systemic Psychotherapist, you will co-facilitate family therapy clinics and evidence-based systemic interventions, including groups such as Non-Violent Resistance if appropriate. You will work autonomously while remaining closely connected to a supportive team, demonstrating excellent organisational skills, clinical judgement and professional self-management. Parent carers, schools and partner agencies will play an important role in your work, and you will be expected to contribute effectively to multi-agency collaboration.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you are passionate about systemic practice, committed to improving outcomes for children, young people and families, and want to work within a supportive, reflective and effective CAMHS service, we would love to hear from you.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:
Iona Cook, Systemic Psychotherapist, Dunstable CAMHS, tel 01582 707635 or email [email protected] or
Dr Louise Scrivener, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Team Lead, Dunstable CAMHS, tel 01582 707635 or email [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice over a minimum of three years.
- Masters/Diploma level qualification (or its equivalent) in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, accredited with UKCP.
- The Maintenance of UKCP Registration by attendance on short or long training courses to meet AFT CPD requirements.
Desirable
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialized 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, 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 across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people (children and families) of all ages.
- Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly Specialist 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
- Highly Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Highly Specialist skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
- Ability to work in inpatient/family settings, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the family-hospital system in ways, which maximize the potential for therapeutic outcomes.
- Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
Desirable
- Experience in supervision of counselling or nursing. A short course in supervision would be desirable. Highly Specialist skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
- Highly Specialist skills in professional supervision; skills for offering live supervision to multi-disciplinary colleagues
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Beech Close Resource Centre
Beech Close
Dunstable
LU6 3SD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)