To provide specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.

The post holder will be the Sub-team Lead for the Neurodevelopmental care pathway. The post holder will be a senior member of staff and will hold clinical and operational responsibilities.

The 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 and of relevance to young people their families and carers.

The post holder will provide generic initial CAMHS assessments and interventions as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.

Main duties of the job

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This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join Westminster CAMHS. The post holder will provide a specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service.

TheSub-team Lead for the Neurodevelopmental care pathwaywill work in partnership with the Consultant Sub-team leads as well as Borough Leads and service manager to provide effective clinical leadership of the multi-disciplinary sub-specialty team. The post will require skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.

Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers. To provide advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

About us

There is a place for you at CNWL. We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. Were always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide initial CAMHS assessments 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 persons 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 taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped theindividual, family or group.

Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

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.

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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate family therapy training to MSc level or equivalent.
• UKCP registration as family therapist

Desirable

• Post-qualification training in additional CAMHS related specialised areas
• Post-qualification training in teaching and supervision of child family therapy
• CYP IAPT training/Supervisor training OR accredited supervisor with the Association for Family Therapy (AFT).
• Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team.
• Experience in supervising as Family Therapist
• Experience of developing and delivering bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
• Experience of developing and delivering clinical training to colleagues

Desirable

• Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisal

Core Competencies

Essential

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
• Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAPT
• Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
• Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
• Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
• Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Able to promote self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotations, peer support, training and skills development
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills

Specialist Competencies

Essential

• Experience of undertaking and supervising specialist family therapy assessment
• Experience of undertaking assessment of parenting capacity as part of court directed parenting assessments
• Experience, knowledge and skills in the use of and supervision of family therapy intervention and management of children, adolescents and their families

Desirable

• Experience of running parenting groups (Triple P, Mellow, Webster Stratton, etc) and other types of group work group such as multi- family group

Administration and Record Keeping

Essential

• Able to use Word and Excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data.
• Able to maintain consistent records for contacts and to adhere to service line / Trust guidelines on use of templates / formats
• Competent in the use of clinical recording systems such as SystmOne, RiO, Jade
• Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records
• Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy
• Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations

Desirable

• Use of S1

Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics

Essential

• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Westminster CAMHS

7a Woodfield road

London

W9 2NW

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