Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - mat leave cover

Job overview

Family and Systemic Psychotherapist   - Maternity Leave

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to work in this supportive multi-disciplinary Specialist CAMHS team based in West Herts covering two sites in Hemel Hempstead and St Albans. We are open to receiving applications from candidates who are currently completing their final year of training with relevant experience.

The postholder will be passionate about delivering psychotherapy intervention to young people and will work alongside a senior psychotherapist and as well as the wider MDT.  They will be supported to consolidate their training and be given a firm foundation to enable them to establish themselves within their professional role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake a range of roles providing assessment and therapeutic intervention to children, young people and their families who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.  They will be given allocated time for a psychotherapy specific caseload as well as offering core work.  The specific work will include psychotherapy cases, parent work and where appropriate state of mind assessments.

The team work within the context of CAPA and CYP-IAPT and work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners. The post holder will be supported to develop professionally in their role. A range of supervision is available including professional, clinical, peer and management. We also provide regular CPD  as well as opportunities for reflection and connecting with psychotherapists county wide.  We welcome creative and innovative ideas for service development.  HPFT CAMHS service is leading in transforming care for young people and their families and now has a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, a CAMHS DBT Service, and has a dedicated CAMHS Section 136 Suite. We also host our own Tier 4 Inpatient Unit for young people, Forest House Adolescent Unit, which has worked to reduce inpatient admissions and improve community care for young people in crisis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver a high quality service working with, adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service need. The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own and other professions.

The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.

The post holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.