Systemic and Family Therapist, Band 8a - Community Adult Mental HealthNHS
Job summary
This is an exciting time to join NLFT with the opportunity as a Senior Systemic and Family Psychotherapist to work with service users, their families and networks across Haringey's Psychological Therapies Pathways, Community Core Teams and Complex Emotional Needs Teams.
You will join a community of Systemic Family Psychotherapists working across Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden, Islington and the Tavistock. We take pride in developing our CPD and training opportunities available locally and more widely, and alongside, regular supervision and support is provided.
With psychologists, psychological therapists and multi-disciplinary staff within the Core Community Teams, you will provide psychological/systemic input to the care of those requiring the highest level of support from mental health services. You will collaborate across different service, pathway and team contexts and develop a system of engagement that promotes a trauma informed, strength based focussed offer and treatment that can form the foundation for the sustainable recovery of service users, their family and carer networks.
Psychological/systemic assessments, consultation and direct work with the team and pathways regarding clients with complex presentations are provided, many of whom present with high risk and may be difficult to engage. You will be expected to provide training, supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional disciplines, including trainees.
Main duties of the job
- Provision of psychological and systemic therapies covered by NICE guidelines to individuals, families, networks.
o Highly specialist assessment of service users and their families.
o Delivery with other members of the team to assist engagement, evaluation and assessment of service users, their family/ professional and social network system.
o Systemic intervention & consultation to multi-disciplinary clinical meetings.
o Structured internal supervision and consultation, including trainees and reflective practice.
o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the service's policies and procedures.
o Provide teaching, training and consultation to mental health service staff.
o Use of core professional training e.g. to undertake research, audit and contribution to policy and service development.
You will be working with a client group with severe and enduring mental illness across the whole life span of community adult mental health including Complex Emotional Needs (c-PTSD; PD and MAP pathways); non-psychotic and psychotic presentations and psychological therapy pathways.
Job description
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
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In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.