Through investment and recognition of the benefit of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, exciting opportunities have arisen in Oxleas Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services in Greenwich. We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our team at Band 7 working towards a Band 8a Preceptorship (competency-based assessment).
This post holder is situated within Greenwich CAMH Service.
To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.
To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
To contribute to the development, implementation, and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Clinical:
1. To provide a specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child’s or adolescent’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To use routine outcome measures as laid down by the Trust.
2. To assess children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment.
3. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan.
4. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the ‘Child Protection Register’, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families using an interpreter where English is not their first language.
5. To provide specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief interventions. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system including family members in their varying developmental stages and current emotional state.
6. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options considering highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child, family or group, and their difficulties.
7. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents, and their families, including couples and groups, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan. Interventions may include family psychotherapy, individual work, chairing professionals, and network meetings, liaising with other agencies, observations of young people in different settings, and the use of a range of systemic models.
8. To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, and formulate effective care plans in collaboration with the client and family. To undertake risk assessment and risk management relevant to individual patients, including protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships, and to do this using the knowledge of the multi professional context that is a mental health service for the locality.
9. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance and develop work with families by providing specialist knowledge and skills.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024
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