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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Contact

Address: Trust Headquarters; Warneford Hospital; Warneford Lane; Headington; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX3 7JX
Contact Number: 01865 901000

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Ref: 267-OC6630550 Vacancy ID: 6630550

Family & Systemic Therapist - Banbury

Closed for applications on: 4-Oct-2024 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 4-Oct-2024 00:02

Location

Site: Orchard Health Centre
Address: Cope Road
Town: Banbury
Postcode: OX16 2EZ
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time
Flexible working

22.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We offer regular clinical supervision from our senior family therapists, as well as management supervision within an environment that values the mutual support and skills of team members. In addition, you will be part of a team of family therapists across Oxford Health Foundation Trust who meet for CPD to share our work and consider new learning. You will be invited to part of delivering systemic training to CAMHS staff.

We have an industrious local Association of Family Therapy which has an active reading and writing group, as well as offering exciting face to face CPD opportunities.

To provide specialist systemic assessments of clients referred to the team utilising information from a range of systemic methodologies (identifying and prioritising interactional patterns/ dynamics/ context) and employing research based models in order to formulate and implement plans with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.
To plan and implement formal family therapy treatment and/or management of clients mental health problems, based upon clients problems and employing methods of proven efficacy.
To implement appropriate systemic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family or group.
To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by family therapy based standard care plans.
To provide specialist systemic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, in the context of multi-disciplinary team working.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals on systemic aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals within the service, both individually and by attendance at team referral and review meetings.
To take part in the duty rota and emergency assessments as agreed with the Operational Lead
To work as a key worker/contextual intervention/care coordinator for complex cases.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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

Postgraduate qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy
Registration as a systemic psychotherapist with UKCP or equivalent body

Desirable criteria

Post graduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare (or established equivalence according to AFT criteria)

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of assessment / intervention with children, young people and families in a mental health or equivalent setting

Desirable criteria

Experience of running/co-running groups.
Experience of other treatments options

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Specialist knowledge and application of family therapy assessment, interventions and family therapy process relevant to client group
Knowledge of evidence base in relation to child mental health
Knowledge and application of standardised assessments and outcome measures

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Sharleigh Hills

Job title

Clinical Team Manager

Telephone number

01865 904700

Additional information

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.