Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist - Eating Disorder Service

Working closely with our colleagues in the hospital paediatric team and others in the county wide service, you will take a lead role in terms of clinical governance and service development in a multi-disciplinary CAMHS eating disorder team. You will also hold a caseload as well as supervising other Family Therapists and Systemic Practitioners, offering training placements and providing specialist systemic input into the wider CAMHS team., You will be able to work with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team and develop relationships across agencies to meet the needs of children and families. The ability to adapt communication and intervention style to meet individual need is important. You will have knowledge of child development and child protection procedures.

You will be responsible for ensuring the service provides therapeutic intervention that are evidence-based and tailored to meet the needs of the child/young person and their family/carer.

You will initiate audit, analyse and produce data / reports and use rostering and electronic staff records systems.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children/young people in a Community CAMHS setting with the confidence to intervene to meet a range of mental health needs and a desire to work to continually improve what we do.

You will be an experienced and qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with current UKCP and AFT registration and experience of clinical leadership and experience of working with complex mental health needs in a community CAMHS setting., We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.