B8a Highly Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Job overview

The Children and Young People’s Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 8a Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire, formally known as Aldershot CAMHS for three days per week.

Applications are invited from qualified and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapists registered with the UKCP.

You will be supporting children, young people and families who require emotional health and well-being support across the alliance and specifically within the 'getting more help' element of the iTHRIVE framework.

The post offers an excellent opportunity for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist looking to enhance their clinical experience and expertise within this specialist service. There are exciting opportunities to develop skills in a redesigned team and be part of shaping the provision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy.

The post holder will have a passion for working with children, young people and their families and contribute to providing mental health assessment and treatment to children and families in the Northeast Hampshire locality. The post holder will be based in Aldershot and will support the delivery of the CYPS care pathways with an 80 (Family Therapy)/ 20 (Community Team) split of clinical direct time.

Main duties of the job

My job makes better lives by promoting the health and independence of people who use our services by delivering high quality systemic assessments, formulation, interventions and consultation and providing supervision and guidance to the multi-disciplinary team.

The main responsibilities of the post holder will be to provide high quality assessments, care coordination and an evidence-based Family Therapy Service to children and adolescents referred into CYPS Community Team. The post offers very varied and interesting clinical opportunities working with the richness and complexity of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.  In addition, the post holder will contribute to the management of the duty system and provide systemic consultation within the multi-disciplinary team and to external agencies and partnership organisations.

To provide high quality evidence-based family therapy services to children and families in the CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire, while receiving regular clinical supervision.

To lead on family therapy sessions and clinics within the team,

To support systemic supervision within the multi-disciplinary team who are engaged in family / systemic work, such as liaising with social services, community mental health teams and other relevant services.

To provide systemic consultation to the wider network.

To provide administrative support to the clinic work as required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide systemic assessments and treatment in family therapy for children, adolescents and their families, practicing within relevant Codes of Practice and drawing on a range of models and techniques.

To provide systemic psychotherapy as an autonomous clinician, drawing on a range of models and techniques. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system, their varying developmental stages and current emotional state. Ensuring that consultation, assessment and treatment interventions are provided in partnership with children, adolescents and their families.

To provide consultation, advice and guidance, supervision to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies.

Please see the Job Description for further details of the role requirements.