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Job summary

Main area
The Childrens Hospital CEW service
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed term 12 months)
Hours
Part time - 11.25 hours per week (Fixed term)
Job ref
164-6051136-A
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
QMC
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist

Band 8a

Job overview

The NHS has committed in the Long-Term Plan to improving care for children and young people with complications related to severe obesity. In the East Midlands 2.5% of reception and 4.7% of year 6 children are severely obese (BMI >99.6th percentile). NHS England have commissioned specialist Complications related to Excess Weight (CEW) clinics across the country to start to develop a systematic approach to gathering evidence and optimising treatment for this cohort. This is an exciting new role for a psychotherapist to be embedded within the hospital MDT to provide a comprehensive psychotherapy service to children, young people, and their families attending the new CEW service.

Main duties of the job

  • To ensure the systematic provision of highly specialist systemic and family psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, their families and/or carers within the Paediatric CEW Clinic at Nottingham.
  • To work autonomously within professional and trust guidelines and manage an individual caseload comprising particularly complex systemic assessments, treatment and consultation work.
  • To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy to patients diagnosed with severe obesity associated with complications and their families
  • To provide highly specialist advice regarding diagnosis and treatment to professional medical and nursing colleagues at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, CAMHS, external agencies eg. social care, schools
  • To undertake complex multi-agency work with outside agencies (for example community paediatrics, education, social care) and colleagues within the Trust.
  • To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist provision of specific projects and services under the supervision of the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric CEW Team at Nottingham.
  • To take responsibility for contributing to research, audit, policy and service development in line with clinical governance standards.

Additional duties of the job are listed in the job description.

Working for our organisation

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.

As one of the NHS Trusts identified in the New Hospital Programme, a programme of investment in NHS hospitals, we have extensive plans to improve our hospitals and the services we deliver for patients. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for further details - attached to this vacancy. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

Person specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s behavioural standards

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1. SCQF level 9 in healthcare related subject e.g. degree in nursing, occupational therapy, social work.
  • 2. SCQF level 11 e.g. Masters level qualification in Family Therapy, Systemic Psychotherapy accredited at this level by AFT.
  • 3. Current UKCP Registration: meeting CPD requirements including relevant short and long training events
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant training/CPD in child and adolescent mental health

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Family therapy experience with children, adolescents and families
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a CAMHS
  • Experience of working with high risk young people
  • Experience of assessment and post diagnostic work with children and young people

Communication and Relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Enthusiastic
  • Adaptable

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
  • Evidence of commitment to multidisciplinary team working
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to communicate complex family therapy/systemic formulations to medical teams

Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to work shifts/on call)

Essential criteria
  • Masters level skills in the use of complex methods of family therapy assessment and intervention with children and young people
  • Experience of teaching, training and supervision
Desirable criteria
  • Trained supervisor in Systemic/Family therapy
  • Quality Improvement training

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderadded for NUHArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.NHS Rainbow badge

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Pooja Sachdev
Job title
Paediatric CEW Consultant Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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