Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7080304-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bexley CAMHS
- Town
- Erith
- Salary
- £51,883 - £66,239 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/05/2025
Employer heading
Family Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who is interested in developing skills to further professional progression. The post is in a busy, committed and well-established Tier 3 team in Bexley CAMHS who work with young people and families with enduring mental health and/or neurodiverse difficulties The service has undergone a service transformation in April 2024, utilising the i-Thrive model to ensure care to our young people is needs-led. Training for the postholder in this model will be provided and supported. In addition, the postholder will regularly be involved in at least one family therapy clinic and peer group supervision (in addition to their own individual supervision).
Main duties of the job
Postholders will contribute to initial assessment clinics which will be robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. You will manage a caseload split between care coordination and therapy cases, as well as supporting triage and emergency rotas along with the rest of the team. You will contribute systemic thinking into the work of this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary service. You will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives which meet the needs of the population.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post holder is situated within Cedar Team, Bexley CAMHS.
To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.
To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.
To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
To contribute to the development, implementation and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.
You will be well supported with personal and professional development reviews as well as being encouraged to take increasing autonomy of the process over time. You will develop skills in supervision, evidence of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, evidence of complex analytical and judgemental skills, evidence of ability to co-ordinate and lead an area of service development and/or clinical pathway, evidence of participation in service level evaluation. This will be done through various activities and opportunities within the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession (e.g. social work, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, teaching)
- Masters or Doctorate level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy
- Registered with regulatory body of core profession, and UKCP (or working towards UKCP registration)
Desirable criteria
- Training in teaching systemic psychotherapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years working in a relevant mental health or social welfare setting
- Experience in assessment, formulation, risk, goal setting, coordinating care and providing a robust systemic intervention
- Experience of working and contributing to a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Working with children and families in a mental health service
- Experience in multi-agency working
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
- Able to provide systemic consultations to other members of the multi-disciplinary team to support formulations
- Effective communication, interpersonal and report-writing skills to support holistic care provided to families
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts, including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically with families
Effort and Environment
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage working in situations of multilevel stress, e.g. client’s experience of physical, sexual and emotional abuse; colleagues, organisational transitions
- To undertake consultation and training of other professionals in holistic integrated assessment and multi-modal therapeutic intervention with children, young people, and their families, alongside a respect for other perspectives and other clinical core skills
- Ability to work autonomously and within a team, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Advanced video skills and the ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carolyn Bush
- Job title
- Lead Family Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032605200
- Additional information
Siraad Ismail, Cedar Team Manager on 02032605200
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