Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

This is an exciting opportunity for a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join the HPFT CAMHS East team,.
You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS team covering the East quadrant of the county and have the opportunity to work alongside side other systemic psychotherapists, child psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nursing and psychiatry.
You will receive regular supervision and be part of the weekly family therapy clinic. You will also join a lively family and systemic psychotherapy discipline group across HPFT with regular discipline meetings and CPD opportunities.
You will also have strong links with professional colleagues in the wider CAMHS. In addition to the inpatient unit, our CAMHS includes a Tier 4 Home Treatment Team, four community clinic Tier 3 teams, a Targeted Team for looked after children, a specialist Eating Disorder Team, a Crisis Team and a DBT team. Family & Systemic Psychotherapists are within most of these teams., To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and
consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with
problems of behavioral, emotional, psychological or mental health issues,
providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to
Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with Community
CAMHS Managers and Professional leads.
To contribute to the provision of a specialist systemic psychotherapy
service within the quadrant, including being a member of a specialist
family therapy team, undertaking particular pieces of work identified as
requiring specialist systemic interventions, providing specialist systemic
peer supervision to colleagues regarding systemic interventions, and
providing occasional CPD to colleagues regarding systemic practice.
To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and
adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the
principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
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 families, extended families and people with mental health difficulties., + To assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual
children and young people, carers and families with complex
behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
+ To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children
and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the
network of significant relationships.
+ To be responsible for a defined caseload selecting and using
appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals
privileging core skills as appropriate.
+ To develop, implement and manage specialised interventions within
the child/young person's context, employing evidence based practice.
+ To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
+ To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
+ To carry out assessments and interventions jointly with co-workers
from the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
+ To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
+ To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local
policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and
mental health, HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.