Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Job overview

Croydon CAMHS are looking to recruit  a Principal Family and Systemic Family and Systemic Psychotherapist. This is an exciting opportunity  to join and lead within a highly skilled, friendly and supportive service.

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic Systemic Family Psychotherapist who is passionate about working with children and young people. Applicants must be keen to develop collaborative approaches and support the commitment of Croydon CAMHS to continually improve access to services for all community groups.

The successful applicant with provide leadership to the wider service and ensure the systemic provision of a highly specialist family and systemic psychotherapy service.

Croydon CAMHS works closely with Kings and IoPPN to provide learning opportunities to systemic Practitioners and Psychotherapists and there are opportunists to provide additional training clinics, teaching and supervision.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties:

To be responsible for the provision of a Systemic Psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level within the mental health CAMHS team within the context of existing multi professional teamwork.

This post sits in the wider service of Croydon CAMHS, providing support and consultation across all teams, however the successful applicant will share leadership responsibilities with senior peers within the Treating Team.

To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. To think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of clinical skills in working alongside others to support a complex range of service users and their network.

Although the successful applicant with sit across the whole of Croydon CAMHS, the postholder will share leadership responsibilities within the Croydon CAMHS Treating Team. Work with peers to ensure visible representation of systemic discipline and provide consultation. Support in chairing multidisciplinary meetings, and participate in child protection case conferences and reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary. To provide systemic supervision and consultation as appropriate and enable other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KR 1      Clinical and Client Care

• To be responsible for the provision of a Systemic Psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level within the mental health CAMHS team within the context of existing multi professional teamwork To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. To provide reports, including systemic formulation, and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families. To select and deliver evidence based highly specialist therapeutic interventions to young people and families, with complex psychological difficulties including depression, ASD, ADHD, sexual abuse, conduct disorder, learning disability, drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models,  monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of children and adolescents referred to Croydon CAMHS. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To act as a care co-ordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans as required.  To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with young people and their families, taking account of communication needs. To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the Croydon and at all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that different families may be acting out of. . To provide psychological support to clients and families who are emotionally distressed, either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives. To lead, and chair when appropriate, multidisciplinary meetings, and participate in child protection case conferences and reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary To take a lead in ensuring the effective working of the team or service and to ensure a psychologically and systems informed framework for the service area. To provide highly specialist consultations to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapy techniques, to advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients and, where appropriate, to jointly work with other team members in the provision of therapeutic interventions
• To be responsible for the provision of a Systemic Psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level within the mental health CAMHS team within the context of existing multi professional teamwork
• To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
• To provide reports, including systemic formulation, and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
• To select and deliver evidence based highly specialist therapeutic interventions to young people and families, with complex psychological difficulties including depression, ASD, ADHD, sexual abuse, conduct disorder, learning disability, drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models,  monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group
• To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of children and adolescents referred to Croydon CAMHS.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as a care co-ordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans as required.
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with young people and their families, taking account of communication needs.
• To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the Croydon and at all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that different families may be acting out of. .
• To provide psychological support to clients and families who are emotionally distressed, either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives.
• To lead, and chair when appropriate, multidisciplinary meetings, and participate in child protection case conferences and reviews, etc. providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary
• To take a lead in ensuring the effective working of the team or service and to ensure a psychologically and systems informed framework for the service area.
• To provide highly specialist consultations to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapy techniques, to advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients and, where appropriate, to jointly work with other team members in the provision of therapeutic interventions