Family and Systemic Psychotherapist or Psychologist

The post holder will lead on developing the systemic provision in the team, which includes offering specialist assessments and couple/ family interventions. The post holder will support the team to integrate systemic thinking into their practice and will provide systemic consultation where required., 1. Lead on couple and family therapy provision within the perinatal mental health team and support the development of systemic practice throughout the service
2. Direct clinical work with clients (assessments and interventions)
3. Provide systemic consultation and training where required, Employ a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to develop a highly specialist understanding and to design specialized intervention programmes tailored to individual need.
Be responsible for direct delivery of systemic interventions and programmes which require the modification of plans and strategies as practice and experience demands.
Offer adaptive and flexible approaches to service users who may have poor communication skills and self care and special physical and/or mental health needs.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including use of interpreters for clinical work.
Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals, MAPPA and other formal panels and statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and/or electronically, and as specified by the service.
Provide appropriate specialist systemic assessments.
Provide highly specialist couple and family interventions to Service Users in the PMHT, appropriate for service users experiencing complex difficulties in the perinatal period.
Working jointly with the multidisciplinary team where appropriate.
Engage in interface/liaison work to ensure joined up care pathways across settings and improve referral processes. Take the lead for a specified area for interface/liaison work as required.
Contribute to the development of services that seek to acknowledge and address as appropriate existing health inequalities, collaborating with other leads including the borough lead for community inclusion.
Take into account the particular needs of people from minority ethnic groups, and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate.
Use your theoretical knowledge base and highly specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others in the team via the development and delivery of teaching, training, supervision, support and consultation.
Be responsible for providing a systemic perspective/psychological expertise for service or team activities, including clinical care, team or service dynamics, systems, health promotion, team or service organisation, in a range of settings, e.g., case discussions, team meetings.
Provide consultation and support to staff in interfacing services and to families and carers.
Be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
Participate in the organisation and delivery of training events and consultancy covering this highly specialist area, and including work with local voluntary organisations.
Participate in the evaluation of services, including collection of monitoring information as required.
Formulate and undertake service related research and audit and support other staff in research activities as necessary.
Receive regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines to ensure high quality work, to engage in the Individual Performance Review process and continuing professional development, and generally work within a clinical governance framework.
Use computer data entry systems, record clinical input and outcome data. Collate this information and communicate it as appropriate to the responsible clinician or service lead.
Contribute to the motoring and audit of work in the service.
Offer line management and supervision as appropriate to psychology colleagues, including qualified psychologists and trainees.
Participate in the appraisal and job planning of psychologists and other team members as appropriate.
Participate, as appropriate, in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process, and as a member of selection panels for assistant, trainee and qualified psychologist posts.
To make an active contribution to pursue the aims, objectives and overall strategy of the service thereby contributing to the development of clinical services provided within psychological therapies service.
Observe personal duty of care in relationship to equipment and resources used in the course of clinical work.
Frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances arising from therapeutic contact with services users (including relatives and carers) requiring emotional engagement with material discussed, emotional self-regulation by the therapist and the delivery of a therapeutic response within professional boundaries. To provide emotional support as appropriate to professional colleagues.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

The post holder will have a special interest in supporting women and birthing people in the perinatal period and experience of working as a qualified family therapist or psychologist with complex mental health difficulties. There will also be opportunities to participate in service development and evaluation.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., The Perinatal Mental Health Team (PMHT) is a multidisciplinary team consisting of nursing, psychology, psychiatry, midwifery, occupational therapy, nursery nurses and admin staff. The team uses an MDT approach to provide holistic, psychologically informed care to women and birthing people in the community who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties in the perinatal period (during pregnancy and up to two years postnatally)., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.