**Preceptorship opportunity - new / early qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapists could be appointed to these roles at B7 under a preceptorship to work towards requirements for B8a, subject to satisfactory completion of preceptorship process.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

We are looking for a Band 8a Specialist Family and Systemic Psychotherapist (0.8wte), to be based in Exeter/ East Devon, who can bring skills, leadership, experience and enthusiasm to meeting the needs of children/young people and families within our Eating Disorder Pathway.

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 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Our children and young people say

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached Job Description for full person specification and job description.

The role of the Senior Family and Systemic Psychotherapist is to provide, develop and clinically lead a range evidenced based interventions in their clinical pathway. Working as part of a multi-professional team, this role will clinically supervise others whilst also assessing and providing care for children, young people and their families/carers who present with a range of complex needs.

Within this role the post holder will:

Provide clinical leadership to within their pathway, and potentially to others, share responsibility for the systematic provision of high quality evidence-based psychological therapy to children/ young people and their families/carers presenting with a range of complex needs.

Use a strengths-based approach ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and Routine Outcome Measures.

Have outstanding communication skills and the ability to adapt their approach to engage with children/young people and their families/carers, who present with a range of complex needs.

Undertake assessments, including risk assessments, contribute to care planning and deliver evidence-based interventions in collaboration with children, young people and their carers.

Manage risks and hold a complex caseload for children and young people of all ages, with a range of needs.

Contribute to the systematic provision of clinical supervision and guidance for staff delivering systemic practice and/or systemic psychotherapy trainees and students

Provide clinical supervision and support to other clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs.

Work effectively with operational, professional and clinical leadership colleagues to support clinicians in devising and implementing evidence-based care to suit the individual needs of children and young people.

Organise, lead and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in a range of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of others.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy.
• Active registration with the UKCP as a Systemic and Family Therapist
• Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people
• Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
• Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
• Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with highly complex mental health problems including risk assessments
• Experience in providing effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
• Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience that evidences an ability to tend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice
• Experience of initiating, attending, contributing to and chairing multi-professional and inter-agency meetings.
• Experience of providing professional teaching and developing training programmes for other professionals.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children and young peoples psychological care and treatment, as a lone practitioner and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan

Skills

Essential

• Ability to travel across Devon

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Evergreen

Victoria Park Road

Exeter

EX2 4NU

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C9369-24-0985