Systemic Family Psychotherapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2024 |
| Location: | Runcorn, WA7 5HQ |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6636918/350-CC6636918 |
Summary
An opportunity has arisen for a Family an Systemic Psychotherapist to join Halton CAMHS (CYPMHS). This service covers Runcorn and Widnes and provides mental health support and interventions for CYP and families. We work to the Thrive Model and continue to develop our service in line with national and local guidance and need. We work along side our partner agencies to offer holistic approaches to supporting families. This role would entail direct clinical work alongside supervision, consultation, training and professional development. You would join a full MDT to work with children and families and be involved in the continued development of services in Halton in a time when there remains focus and investment in mental health services along with investment in the staff who work within these services, so a very exciting time to join the team.
To provide a qualified specialist family therapy and family interventions service to service users under the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Service. To provide specialist family and systemic assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to non-psychological therapy colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers. To support skills development and knowledge around family interventions within the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the local Division’s and team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To provide specialist family and systemic therapy assessments of clients accessing CYPMHS, through work with clients, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal family therapy and family interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing family interventions for carers, families and groups, accessing CYPMHS and supporting formulations.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To provide specialist family therapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service user formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a systemic framework of understanding to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management according to Mersey Care Trust policies and procedures.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of family therapy over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
To support development of knowledge and skills through training around family interventions amongst staff in CYPMHS.
Where appropriate, to provide professional and specialist systemic clinical supervision to honorary and trainee family therapists and to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainees.
To provide advice, consultation, supervision and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including managing own referral system and reporting regularly on waiting times.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing.
To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of junior staff.
The post holder will be expected to make full use of IT packages available within the work area, for example, Microsoft Office, email, internet and statistical packages.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research as appropriate.
To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
To undertake a defined role in local division Service Governance structures as agreed.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s) in line with the priorities of the service and PDP objectives and to provide evidence of CPD undertaken, e.g., in the form of CPD logbook.
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychotherapy/psychology across the service.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the AFT, other professional bodies and local division and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required by their Head of Service.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Oct 2024