The Teesside Early Intervention for Psychosis Service is looking to recruit a full time Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist. The post will be based in one of the two North Tees EIP teams in Hartlepool and Stockton and the post holder will work clinically across both sites. The post holder will also hold a position of leadership around the delivery of Systemic and Family Interventions across all of the EIP teams in the Durham Tees Valley Directorate. As well as supporting Family Interventions across the wider system.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Early Intervention for Psychosis team in a therapy delivery role.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will be required to have either RMN or equivalent mental health core qualification and be registered with a professional regulatory body, and to have completed and passed an Association of Family Therapy (AFT) accredited Systemic Family Therapy Masters Course making them eligible for Accreditation as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with AFT.

They will also have significant experience delivering psychological informed interventions to people experiencing severe mental health problems in a secondary care setting. Training and experience delivering behavioural family therapy for psychosis would be highly relevant experience. As would further training in Supervising Systemic Practice.

About us

Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Trust EIP service has an established, and growing, network of systemic family therapists who have a integral role to the leadership and delivery of EIP across both care groups. The service has strong active practice development connections with provider and HEI colleagues regionally and nationally.

The successful candidate will join an established multi-disciplinary Early Intervention for Psychosis Service in the Tees Area. Their role in the team will be a focus on the family and carer centred approach and intervention.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academys Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Additional contact details: Dr Jennifer Simpson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Durham Tees Valley EIP. jennifer.simpson7@nhs.net

Alix Bowler, Trust Wide Family Intervention Lead and Systemic therapist for Tees EIP. alix.bowler@nhs.net

Sharon Tudball, Team manager for North Tees EIP. sharon.tudball@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A qualification that leads to registration with a professional regulatory body (HCPC, GMC, NMC or Social Work England) AND current registration with this professional regulatory body.
• AND and to have completed and passed an Association of Family Therapy (AFT) accredited Systemic Family Therapy Masters Course making them eligible for Accreditation as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist with AFT
• Trained and experienced in generic clinical supervision and care co- ordination.
• Evidence of continuing relevant CPD. Including clinical practice and leadership within the NHS

Desirable

• Qualification to provide clinical supervision within the psychological therapy

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post qualification experience of specialist model specific psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings and age ranges
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team
• Significant experience in consultation, clinical supervision and audit activities
• Experience of providing training to other professional groups and to relevant training courses e.g.medical, nursing, social work
• Quality and service improvement and evaluation

Desirable

• Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Significant and specialist knowledge of The theory, practice, and evidence based in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management of complex cases based on psychological therapy models across a range of client presentations and care settings
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the community pathway
• Knowledge of development across the life span and attachment theory
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non- professionalgroups
• Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System, risk assessment and risk management, clinical governance and audit and research methodology

Desirable

• Significant knowledge and experience of another psychological therapy

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wessex House

Falcon Court, Preston Farm Industrial Estate

Stockton-on-Tees

TS18 3TX

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