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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health Children and Adolescents
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Weekdays only, excluding Bank Holidays)
Job ref
325-6078585-CYPS
Employer
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire, Aldershot Centre for Health
Town
Aldershot
Salary
£45,753 - £52,067 incl 5% fringe HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

B7 Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

You will be joining a dynamic, busy, and successful service and multi-disciplinary team within CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire. We are a very reflective and supportive team ensuring we put the young people and families at the heart of what we do. 

This post is suitable for a newly qualified Systemic Psychotherapist.   The successful applicant would preferably have experience in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with mental health issues.

To provide timely assessment of children and young people who are referred to CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire and provide care planning and support for their care and create individualised treatment plans.

Deliver on the following key area and lead team functioning with particular focus on the following areas:

  • To provide high quality, specialist evidence-based systemic family therapy assessment and treatment to children and adolescents and their families and professional networks.
  • To work autonomously within the Association Family Therapy (AFT), UKCP and Trust guidelines.
  • To support audit and research activities and to propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
  • To support on outcomes and research

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist systemic assessment of clients referred to the team incorporating complex information from other professionals. To make decisions about treatment options taking into account evidence based research, theory, practice and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have impacted on the child and their family.

To provide highly specialist short or long term systemic therapy for children/adolescents with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, for parents/carers who may be vulnerable, for families who may have complex and persistent problems, for children/adolescents and their parents. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

To provide specialist systemic consultation, advice, support and guidance to other professionals working in the service in order to maintain high standards of work with children. To make SFT theory and practice accessible to clinicians and other staff members in the team.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of responsibilities please read the attached the Job Description for the Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current or imminent successful completion of an MA in Systemic Family Psychotherapy
  • Current or imminent registration with UKCP
  • Current or imminent registration with AFT

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 1 years’ post graduate experience working in the field of child and adolescent Mental Health.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kerry Pilbeam
Job title
General Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07887504759
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