Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Job overview

Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

1.0 wte Band 8A – 9 Month Fixed Term- Maternity Cover

This post is a Family and Systemic Psychotherapy post based in a specialist clinical team within City and Hackney CAMHS providing services to young people and their families with time shared between the Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway and the Re-Engagement Unit.

The post holder will spend 2.5 days per week as part of a Tier 3 CAMHS community-based post, located within the Behaviour Support and Outreach (BS&O) pathway in City & Hackney CAMHS, the East London NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance. The post holder will be offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care including a range of assessment and treatment options such as individual, parenting, family therapy and group based interventions, as well as specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and liaison with other agencies.

The post holder will spend the other 2.5 days per week as part of the Re-Engagement Unit situated within Hackney Education. The post holder will offer short term, intensive packages of care to young people at risk of exclusion as part of a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, teachers, learning mentors and family support workers. This will involve comprehensive assessment of a young person’s needs (including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions) and developing a psychologically informed care plan to support the young person and the system around them.

Main duties of the job

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED

The post holder will be a specialist and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a substantial knowledge of the field of child and adolescent mental health. The post holder will possess strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to behaviour that challenges, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have some experience of working with children with behavioural difficulties, risk management and have experience of working and consulting in schools.

The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team.  The post holder will have a high degree of professional autonomy, and will be expected to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will join a warm and experienced, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians – working together with Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Psychotherapists, Nurses, Educational Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Child Psychotherapists and CBT therapists.

Our team provide a variety of comprehensive specialist assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including individual approaches (e.g. CBT, DBT, EMDR, IPT-A, VIG and psychotherapy), systemic and family work (e.g. Family Therapy clinics, ABFT, parenting and narrative approaches), and group work (e.g. Non Violent Resistance and our outreach Boxing group). As part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance, we also work closely with our partner agencies (including statutory and voluntary organisations) to provide specialist advice, consultation and multi-agency responses.

As part of the Re-Engagement Unit (REU) you will work with young people who are at risk of exclusion from mainstream education and the system that supports them. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to offer a comprehensive, short term, intensive intervention including supporting children, teachers, the family and other professionals to help make a real change for the child. This package will be offered alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary REU team made up of teachers, learning mentors and family support workers. There will also be a CAMHS Clinical Psychologist who also working jointly between the two teams.