A rare opportunity has arisen in North west Sussex CAMHS for a Highly Specialist Systemic Therapist to cover maternity leave from November, 2024. The role would ideally suit a systemic therapist with experience of delivering family therapy to families in which there is a child who is experiencing moderate to severe mental health problems. However, consideration would be given to candidates looking to make a step up to the position from an experienced band 7 post.

Co-ordinating and delivering a quality family therapy service to families in which there is a child or children experiencing moderate to severe mental health problems.

Co-ordinating the provision of single session family therapy clinics as part of the early steps offer in CAMHS.

Supervision of members of the family therapy team.

Taking on the role of lead practitioner in cases of complexity.

Working with the leadership team in NWS CAMHS to ensure the delivery of the assessment and treatment service to local children and their families.

Consultation to the multi-disciplinary team and facilitation of reflective practice groups

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in West Sussex.

Working in Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and stunning countryside
• Embrace village, town and city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
• Easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK

We’d love you to join our organisation - it is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.

REQUIREMENTS

• Accreditation in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
• Substantial experience post qualification in a relevant field of practice

DESIRABLE

• Evidence of post qualification training in clinical supervision

Access to own transport is recommended as this post involves occasional travel to sites across West Sussex. SPFT staff have the capacity to work from home remotely where clinically applicable and in agreement with your line manager.

MAIN DUTIES

• To provide high-quality specialist systemic psychotherapy to children, young people, families, groups and networks of care, within and across teams
• To hold and manage a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and client assessment, treatment and discharge, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
• To take clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
• To clinically supervise Systemic Psychotherapists, systemic practitioners, systemic trainees and other staff as appropriate.
• To provide systemic consultation, mentorship and supervision to team and service members and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of Family Therapy and systemic practice within Horsham CAMHS, and to the team’s operational policies and services
• To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.

Clinical:

• To formulate and implement highly specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining formulations and hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To provide specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapy perspectives, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plan s and to a psy chologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across relevant settings and agencies.
• To undertake risk assessment, formulation and management for individual clients with complex presentations.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning client assessment, formulation and treatment plans and to monitor progress during uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
• To promote and participate in multi-disciplinary team working, development and liaison.
• To act as a care coordinator or lead practitioner as appropriate
• To promote actively, user and carer involvement in care planning and service development.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert. For more information explore the attachments and/or contact:

Jan Parker, Principal Family & Systemic Psychotherapist: jan.parker@spft.nhs.uk