B7 Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

You will be joining a dynamic, busy, and successful service and multi-disciplinary team within CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire (formally known as CAMHS Aldershot) for three days per week. We are a very reflective and supportive team ensuring we put the young people and families at the heart of what we do. This post is suitable for a newly qualified Specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapist. The successful applicant would have experience in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with mental health issues. To provide timely assessment of children and young people who are referred to CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire and provide care planning and support for their care and create individualised treatment plans. Deliver on the following key area and lead team functioning with particular focus on the following areas:

• To provide high quality, specialist evidence-based systemic family therapy assessment and treatment to children and adolescents and their families and professional networks.
• To work autonomously within the Association Family Therapy (AFT), UKCP and Trust guidelines.
• To support audit and research activities and to propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
• To support on outcomes and research
Main duties of the job To provide a specialist systemic assessment of clients referred to the team incorporating complex information from other professionals. To make decisions about treatment options taking into account evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have impacted on the child and their family. To provide highly specialist short or long term systemic therapy for children/adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, for parents/carers who may be vulnerable, for families who may have complex and persistent problems, for children/adolescents and their parents. 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. To provide specialist systemic consultation, advice, support and guidance to other professionals working in the service in order to maintain high standards of work with children. To make SFT theory and practice accessible to clinicians and other staff members in the team.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.