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We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
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Systemic/Family Psychotherapist
Accepting applications until: 11-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Community Mental Health Centre
- Address
- Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove
- Town
- Brighton
- Postcode
- BN2 3EW
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
We're looking for a Systemic/Family Psychotherapist to join our friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists in the Brighton & Hove Assessment & Treatment Service.
This is a permanent Band 8a post (WTE 0.5; 18.75 Hours per week, with options for flexible working) where you will be working with adults with complex mental health problems, their families and carers.
You must be registered as a Systemic/Family Psychotherapist with the UKCP.
We are keen to support your professional development and will support you to undertake additional specialist training relevant to the post, plus the regular CPD opportunities for the psychological professions available in the Trust.
Advert
You will be part of the Brighton and Hove Assessment & Treatment Service (ATS), which provides community mental health services for adults of all ages. The service is multi-professional and based across two hubs; East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre and Mill View Hospital. This post will be based within our East Brighton hub, but clinical work will cover both hubs. The ATS places a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary team working and close working relationships with other local mental health services and community organisations.
We are looking for an enthusiastic systemic/family psychotherapist to support and develop our existing systemic work, which includes a well-established Family Therapy Clinic with a multidisciplinary reflecting team, and a network of Family Interventions for Psychosis/Bipolar Disorder (FIp) practitioners. The role will support systemic/family work across all care pathways, will offer systemic assessments and interventions and will support systemic skills and family inclusive practice in the teams. There will also be a supervisory role in the Family Therapy Clinic and for FIp practitioners and other systemic practitioners working in adult services in Brighton.
You will be joining a group of psychological practitioners who embrace systemic ideas. There will be a view to develop your supervision and leadership skills in this area.
Working for our organisation
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
Your benefits:
- Access to a host of discount schemes including reductions on fuel, high street and online purchases, as well as Blue Light Card advantages!
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Discounted gym memberships
- Free parking on-site
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Living & working in Brighton:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed
- Great transport links with Brighton train station linking up directly with major cities such as Portsmouth and London, whilst also being a 30-minute train ride to Gatwick Airport
- The city is also host to lots of cosy pubs and quirky bars for you to visit
- There are also plenty of shops for you to browse during your lunch break or after work, with Churchill Square shopping centre being the main attraction
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To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS
In order to be a successful Systemic Psychotherapist in our team, you will have:
- Recognised accredited post graduate level training in family & systemic psychotherapy
- Professional registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with the UKCP
- Experience of providing a systemic psychotherapy service to adult clients and their families/networks, or enthusiasm for developing these skills, and experience of providing systemic supervision to practitioners offering systemic interventions
We encourage and support flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Brighton Psychological Practitioners are valued members of the service and offer specialist assessments and interventions, psychological formulation and team consultation. The psychological professions workforce in ATS has expertise in a wide range of therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, EMDR and systemic family therapy.
You will be creative and flexible in adapting to change and able to educate and inspire others in working with people with complex mental health problems.
Psychological services in Brighton place a strong emphasis on co-production and drawing on the expertise of people with lived experience, and we welcome staff who share these values to join our service.
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site: https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Dr Andrea Cohen (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Systemic Psychotherapist) or Dr Susan Whiting (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to learn more about the post on 0300 304 0094 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised accredited post graduate level training in family & systemic psychotherapy, as specified in the relevant Appendix
- Professionally registered as specified in the appendix
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of systemic psychotherapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
- Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context.
- Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
- A high level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist systemic psychotherapy therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of systemic psychotherapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix.
- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
- Experience of the application of Systemic Psychotherapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy for specific difficult to treat groups served by the service (e.g. complex comorbidity, physical health problems or disability etc).
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the appropriate professional bodies and outlined in the Appendix.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr. Andrea Cohen
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0094
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