Job summary
- Main area
- Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-G-CA-1581
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ash Tree Clinic -Harrow CAMHS
- Town
- South Harrow Londn
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Systemic & Family Psychotherapist
Band 7 ( 22.5 hours)
What we are looking for?
A unique opportunity has arisen for a qualified Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Band 7) to work alongside other systemic colleagues within a friendly, energetic and exciting multi-disciplinary team in Harrow CAMHS. We welcome applications from experienced or newly qualified Systemic and Family Psychotherapists.
In the case of newly qualified Systemic and Family Psychotherapists who have not yet received their Professional Body Registration we will support you to obtain your UKCP Registration.
What the role entails and what will we offer you?
This is a part-time permanent post and is part of an innovative, dynamic and growing systemic discipline within Harrow CAMHS offering a full systemic service comprising direct systemic work, systemic consultation, group work and Family Therapy Reflecting Team clinic.
As part of the Harrow CAMHS community specialist team, you will also join your colleagues in offering a Generic CAMHS Service through Duty and Initial Assessments and Case Management. The post will be supervised by the Principal/Lead Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in Harrow Tier 3 CAMHS and line managed by the Service/Team Manager.
You and your development will be supported through individual and group systemic supervision, access to a broad range of Trust Training and exposure to multiple forms of service delivery.
Main duties of the job
- Provide generic assessments of children and young people referred to the team based on the referral.
- Formulate and implement evidence-based Care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of systemic and family therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the sub-teams within Harrow CAMHS. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need
- Take part in regular Systemic and Family Therapy Clinics as both the therapist and part of a reflective team.
- Deliver Systemic-Based Group Work to parents and children
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors that have shaped the individual & family.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people.
- Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people and families/carers.
- To provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
Working for our organisation
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.
With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder,
Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Post: |
Band 7 Family & Systemic Psychotherapist |
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Department: |
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
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Harrow CAMHS |
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Grade: |
Band 7 |
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Hours: |
Full time: 22.5 hours per week. |
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Clinically accountable to: |
Principal/Lead Systemic & Family Psychotherapist |
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Operationally accountable to:
Key relationships: |
Service/Team Manager Harrow CAMHS
CAMHS colleagues, service line managers in CAMHS, social workers, school staff, frontline workers in other agencies, Adult Mental Health Services, members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a client’s care |
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Job Summary
To provide a systemic and family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of the Systemic and Family Therapy team within the multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Providing specialist systemic and family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation to colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. The post holder will provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist systemic and family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
The post holder will be based in the Emotional Disorders Team (EDT).
They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as depression, anxiety, trauma and Eating Disorders, supporting case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.
The post holder will work as part of the systemic discipline team providing training, advice and consultation to colleagues in the service. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Post-graduate family therapy training to MSc level or equivalent.
- • UKCP registration as family therapist
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in additional some CAMHS related specialized work
- Recent Safeguarding children training
- CYP IAPT training
- Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and preferably CAMHS team
- Experience of working with complex cases
- Able to deliver parent training and groups
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical training to colleagues
- Experience of working with child/family/carer mental health issues
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in an additional language
- Experience of developing mental health clinical training for delivery to CAMHS and non-CAMHS Colleagues
- Experience of delivering systemic training to non CAMHS professionals
Core Competencies
Essential criteria
- Mental Health Assessment: Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
- Mental Health Assessment: Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Engagement: Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Engagement: Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
- Engagement: Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
- Engagement: Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT
- Engagement: Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
- Family and parenting: work Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Cultural: competence Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Consultation and Liaison: Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
- Psychoeducation: Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
- Interdisciplinary work: Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rota’s, peer support, training and skills development
- Transition: Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
- Professional Development: Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Family and parenting work Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
Mental Health Assessment
Essential criteria
- Mental Health emergency CAMHS assessment.
Specialist Competencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of running parenting groups (triple p, mellow, Webster Stratton, etc) and other types of group work group such as multi- family group
Administration and Record Keeping
Essential criteria
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel): Able to use word and excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data
- Clinical Recording Systems Competent in the use of clinical recording systems such as SYSTMONE. Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records
- Email and Communication Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy. Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations
Desirable criteria
- European Computer
- Use of SYSTMONE
- Use of COMMIT and other related CYP IAPT recording
Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
- Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
- Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
- Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedure
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Osman
- Job title
- Principal/Lead Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Additional contact information
Dr Sean McArdle
Lead Clinical Psychologist and Borough Therapy Lead
Tel: 0208 869 4500
Mob: 07732825190
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