Highly Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Job overview

Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Band 8a (1 WTE hours)

• (WTE) sessions in the Emotional and Behavioural Team, 0.2 (WTE) sessions in the Neurodevelopmental team and 0.2 (WTE) sessions in WAMHS in City and Hackney CAMHS.

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 Emotional and Behavioural Pathway, Neurodivelopmental Pathway and WAMHS (when there is a service need).

The post holder will spend the majority of their time as part of a Tier 3 CAMHS community-based post, located within the Emotional and Behavioural (E&B) pathway in City & Hackney CAMHS, the East London NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance. The post holder will need to have Neurodiversity experiance. Apart of the role will also be supporting the Neurodiversity pathway. 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.

When there is a service need, the post holder will be asked to be a part of the Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools (CWIS) team one day a week.

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 Emotional and behavioural and Neurodiversity challenges, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have experience of working with children with Neurodiversity 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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.