We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced Band 7 Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join the specialist Community CAMHS team. There are excellent opportunities for professional training and development within team through specialist systemic supervision, training, and opportunities for working within the wider systemic psychotherapy group.

Covid-19 full vaccination may be a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families, in line with evidence-based practice and trust care pathways. You will be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. You will be part of a family clinic team working alongside other psychotherapist and systemic therapists.

About us

We welcome applications from practitioners who are highly motivated, enthusiastic, creative, flexible and resourceful. The successful applicant will be trained to deliver NICE concordant treatment to young people and their families as part of a multidisciplinary team.

You will be supported within the team by senior clinicians and will work closely with other specialists within the service. Clinical supervision and professional leadership will be provided.

Job description Job responsibilities

• To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
• To provide consultation and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.
• To deliver psychological therapy in the context of collaborative therapeutic relationships, and to resolve difficulties in the therapeutic relationships
• Provide a specialised range of clinical interventions and demonstrate knowledge of models of practice.
• Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of interventions.
• Provide specialist clinical assessment, formulation, intervention, review and where appropriate CPA including care co-ordination for service users, their families and carers.

Person Specification - Qualifications Essential

• Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the appendix
• Professionally registered as specified in the Appendix

Knowledge/Experience Essential

• Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
• Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context
• A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
• Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
• Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
• A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix

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