CAMHS - Registered Practitioner - Systemic Family Psychotherapy

Job overview

This is a part time post for 30 hours a week.

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled and motivated CAMHS Specialist Registered Practitioner – Systemic Family Psychotherapy to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

This is a split role, combining clinical leadership within our Family Therapy provision with a generic CAMHS practitioner role, including care coordination responsibilities.

The Role

This is a varied and rewarding post, with approximately:

• 50% of time leading the Family Therapy Clinic, providing systemic assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families.
• 50% of time holding a core CAMHS caseload, including undertaking assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, and acting as Care Coordinator where appropriate.

You will play a key role in embedding and sustaining a strong systemic offer within the service, while contributing fully to the wider multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a range of highly specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) and their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.
• Provide clinical leadership within the team and Family Therapy Clinic alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making.  There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical safety needs and other complex/multi agency needs.
• Take lead Family Therapist role in weekly Family Therapy Clinic with support of wider FT reflective team and Family Therapy colleagues in service, providing live supervision of the clinic as required.
• Provide CAMHS specialist clinical safety assessments (including Self Harm assessments) and complex safety management planning as part of routine clinical work.  This will include leading and actively contributing to multi disciplinary clinical discussions and formulations.
• The “voice” of the child will be central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• lead and deliver systemic family psychotherapy clinics.
• Provide specialist systemic assessment and formulation.
• Deliver family-based interventions for complex and high-risk presentations.
• Hold a defined caseload of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
• Act as Care Coordinator in line with service and CPA processes.
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management planning.
• Provide consultation and systemic thinking within the multidisciplinary team.