About this role
Job summary
This highly sought-after post will appeal to those individuals who have successfully completed the Intermediate Family and Systemic Training or CYP IAPT Systemic Training Programs. and have a core profession relevant to working with Young People with mental health difficulties. You have an opportunity to extend and develop your systemic skills through work with individuals and families. You will join the specialist family therapy clinic to offer screen and reflecting team interventions and systemic consultations. You will also be part of the Trust wide systemic forum and have access to internal and external systemic CPD training opportunities. You will be based in a Children and Young People's Mental Health Service working with complex cases including neurodiversity, risk and systemic difficulties.
Although funding cannot be guaranteed, should you wish to continue your systemic training, you can apply for this training opportunity when it comes up.
Main duties of the job
Job Responsibilities:
To join the multi-disciplinary CYPMH Service in the delivery of mental health care and risk assessment to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.
To deal with a range of clients and clinical situations, including those involving emotive communication and the need to apply initiative, tact and persuasion in the face of psychological resistance.
To offer systemically informed advice on clients' psychological care to individuals external to CYPMH working under supervision of an approved systemic supervisor or fully qualified Family / Systemic Psychotherapist.
Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CYPMH care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
To facilitate clients and families in providing substantive feedback to the service using ROMs, Experience of Service questionnaires and other feedback mechanisms
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description Job responsibilities
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner to the parents, carers, professionals involved and CYP concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi- disciplinary care.
To liaise and maintain good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with CYP on matters of mutual concern regarding individual service users.
To work with other team members in implementing priorities and initiatives as agreed by the Community CYPMH Service Manager and Professional leads.
To have good working relationships with multidisciplinary colleagues
To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families, carers and other external agencies
. To work collaboratively with colleagues to develop and improve the service.
. To and comply with the operational policy of the team and all operational procedures.
. In conjunction with the local lead of Family & Systemic Family Psychotherapy and senior management team, identify and propose potential changes to work practices and procedures in own area of work and contribute to discussions on service wide and specialism issues.
To communicate to both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where clinical and/or organisational matters warrant concern or improvement.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to supportpractice in individual work and work with other team members to improve the quality of care provided to CYP and their families served by CYPMHS
To contribute to the development of the highest professional standards of practice in CYPMH and Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Administration and Clinical Recording
To enter required data into the Trusts patient administration systems and to make use of data bases as directed by managers
To undertake administrative tasks in line with service requirements, making appropriate use of administrative support
To contribute to systemically informed learning that may be required to meet the demands and objectives of CYPMHS
To support the Trust wide Systemic & Family Psychotherapy Discipline in establishing standards and creating opportunities for research into aspects of systemic practice and mental health services.
To contribute to clinical audit as appropriate.
To ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive in line with Trust policy.
To work within the framework of CY-IAPT and to use Routine Outcome Measures as part of your work.
To record relevant information as consistent with Trust and Council record keeping policy.
To hold a caseload and receive clinical supervision from an approved systemic supervisor or fully qualified Family / Systemic Psychotherapist in accordance with Trust clinical governance standards and the codes of practice and ethical guidelines of Association for Family Therapy (AFT) and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
To attend clinical and professional supervision within the context of the Knowledge and Skills Framework.
To participate in a Personal Development Review and an annual Appraisal within the context of the knowledge and skills framework.
To attend Multidisciplinary CPD as agreed in job plan.
To attend Professional Meetings for Systemic & Family Psychotherapy discipline as appropriate.
To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, which may include electronic data entry and recording, report writing through the exercise of professional ethical standards and a continuing adherence to the professional codes of practice of the AFT and UKCP
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
This is an outline of the postholders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary CYPMH service, within the clinical governance structures and protocols of the service.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications Essential
Currently a trainee on an accredited MSc Family and Systemic Psychotherapy training accredited by AFT/ UKCP or Have completed the Intermediate Level Training/CYP IAPT Systemic Training. Have a first related graduate professional qualification i.e. Social worker, Nurse, Clinical Psychologist, plus post First qualification practice
Desirable
Have completed the Intermediate Level training/ CYP IAPT Systemic training with plans to proceed to the Post Qualifying Family and Systemic Training Course Clinical experience in a CYP mental health setting is desirable
Previous Experience Essential
Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of clinical mental health concerns. Care settings could include: outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of co-delivering evidence based treatment using a range of modalities in different cultural contexts. Experience of delivering services in different cultural contexts and understanding of the needs of a multicultural population Multidisciplinary working
Desirable
Supervised experience of evidence based treatment in relation to children with mental health concerns. Training in parent management Experience of group work Experience of working within a multidisciplinary Specialist CAMHS team and of providing specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
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 Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG
Parkway
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6HG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)