Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Provide specialist family therapy service to CYP with mental health problems as part of a MDT CAMHS service. Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to CYP and their families/cares and advice + consultation to non-family therapy colleagues and wider professional network. Post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service. Provide CHOICE initial CAMHS assessments and partnership interventions as well as specialist family therapy interventions ,contribute to support plans for CYP with emotional and behavioural difficulties, including high risk presentations. Contribute to highly specialist assessments of complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and self harming behaviours/suicidal ideation. Support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions To consistently follow the Trust values towards all service users, families / carers and all colleagues internal and external to CAMHS. Provide clinical supervision to trainees, and non-family therapists according to service needs. All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity., · Provide CHOICE CAMHS assessments and Partnership Sessions and contribute to MDT discussions from a systemic point of view. · Provide family therapy assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. · Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young person's problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. · Be responsible for implementing a range of family therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need. · Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. · To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. · Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. · Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviour. · To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management. · Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. Provide case management / care coordination for a caseload of children and young people following the service clinical models and specific guidance. · To facilitate clients and families in providing substantive feedback to the service using ROMs, Experience of Service questionnaires and other feedback mechanisms including FFT, patient support services and Datix feedback. · Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

• Post-graduate family therapy training to MSc level or equivalent.
• UKCP registration as family therapist
• Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience
Desirable criteria
• Post-qualification training in additional CAMHS related specialized areas., Substantial pre qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team.
• Sound knowledge of issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable children and child protection issues.
• Ability to effectively manage time and balance clinical time with yp and their families and administration time.
• Proven record of working in keeping with diversity and equal opportunity principles, including anti- discriminatory practice and how these impacts on service users.
• Demonstrable confidence in communication and presentation necessary to represent the service/department in multi-agency forums.
• Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning Mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions.
Desirable criteria
• Significant experience of working with a range of families and young people with very complex needs who may be at risk of entering the care system.
• Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments
• Experience of developing and delivering clinical training to colleagues
• Work with children and young people within a school setting. Experience of service audit and using a variety of outcomes measurement tools and other research, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, 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