Principal Family and Systemic PsychotherapistNHS
Job summary
HPFT's Children and Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS - formerly known as CAMHS)has been at the forefront of national developments in CYPMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT, and Hertfordshire is an i-Thrive accelerator service. The HPFT CYPMH service includes four community based 'tier 3' teams, a crisis assessment/treatment team (C-CATT), a DBT service, an Eating Disorder Team, an inpatient unit (Forest House) and a Targeted Team for looked after children. We offer a range of psychological therapies across these teams. We have close links with other agencies including the local 'tier 2' CYPM service, school link workers, Mental Health Support Teams, and children's social services.
As a service, we are keen to promote continuing professional development (CPD) and research opportunities. We offer placements to trainees within all psychological therapies and have strong links with local training courses. We value clinical supervision, both peer group and individual. We are an innovative and dynamic service, working as a multi-disciplinary team to address new challenges, and we are looking for an enthusiastic Systemic Psychotherapist to join us in going forward.
Main duties of the job
As a senior clinician in the team, you would work closely with the Consultant Psychologist and the Quadrant Leadership Team to lead the clinical work within the wider team as well as manage your own core and specialist caseloads, whilst taking an active role in developing systemic psychotherapy provision in the team and the wider service. You would have close links with the professional lead for systemic psychotherapy and would join the systemic psychotherapy professional network within HPFT CAMHS. Locally, you would be working within a multidisciplinary team.
Job description
The post-holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary clinic team and will provide a high standard of service to children, adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations.
They will be responsible for assessing and treating children, young people and their families/carers in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems
The post holder will be responsible for the continued development of the specialist systemic psychotherapy resources within the clinic and for the work undertaken by them.
Providing clinical and professional supervision to less experienced systemic psychotherapists, students and systemic psychotherapists trainees within their local quadrant MDT and also across quadrants as necessary and as agreed with the Consultant Lead Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.
The post-holder will offer Core and Specialist/Specific work (according to CAPA definitions) within the quadrant, and Specialist/Specific work as part of a CYPMHS-wide therapeutic team as appropriate
The post-holder will lead on the provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision - in line with CAPA model - of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT).
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.