Child and Family Systemic Family Therapist

Child and Family Systemic Family Therapist NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Systemic Family Therapist

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 30 hours per week

Job ref: 395-PP025-25

Site: Redbridge CAMHS, Town: Romford

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus HCAS (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing date: 24/02/:59

Joining means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

At CAMHS Redbridge, we are dedicated to creating an exceptional environment where professionals can grow, innovate and make a profound impact on the lives of children and young people.

The postholder will provide specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement of CAMHS service users and the clinical supervision of junior clinicians within the team, where required.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive, and specialist family therapy service for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioural, and mental health issues, along with their carers/parents, and families.
2. Contribute to the multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health issues.
3. Undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessments, parenting support, and specialist cases.
4. Contribute to audits and research.
5. Actively participate in treatment and outcome monitoring.
6. Work within clinical practice, utilizing supervision, and adhere to the overall framework of CAMHS and the Trust's policies and procedures.
7. Deputise in the absence of the Systemic Family Therapist Lead and delegate tasks to healthcare assistants as needed.
8. Maintain knowledge of Trust protocols and procedures.
9. Provide both formal and informal supervision to junior staff when necessary.
10. Act as an autonomous professional, fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body.

Person specification Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
• Successful completion of a post-graduate training in child and adolescent family therapy
• Be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
• Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
• Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures.

Skills

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients.
• Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manager as relevant.

Other

• To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
• Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging clinical work.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.