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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
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.
Highly Specialist Systemic Family Therapist
Accepting applications until: 14-Nov-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 14-Nov-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- New Park House
- Cyfeiriad
- North Street
- Tref
- Horsham
- Cod post
- RH12 1RJ
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC/Secondment to 14/10/25)
- Oriau
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Systemic Psychotherapy
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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
A rare opportunity has arisen in North west Sussex CAMHS for a Highly Specialist Systemic Therapist to cover maternity leave from November, 2024. The role would ideally suit a systemic therapist with experience of delivering family therapy to families in which there is a child who is experiencing moderate to severe mental health problems. However, consideration would be given to candidates looking to make a step up to the position from an experienced band 7 post.
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Co-ordinating and delivering a quality family therapy service to families in which there is a child or children experiencing moderate to severe mental health problems.
Co-ordinating the provision of single session family therapy clinics as part of the early steps offer in CAMHS.
Supervision of members of the family therapy team.
Taking on the role of lead practitioner in cases of complexity.
Working with the leadership team in NWS CAMHS to ensure the delivery of the assessment and treatment service to local children and their families.
Consultation to the multi-disciplinary team and facilitation of reflective practice groups
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in West Sussex.
Working in Sussex: · Travel easily between coast and stunning countryside · Embrace village, town and city life with great access to visit Brighton and London · Easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK
We’d love you to join our organisation - it is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority. Other key staff survey results include: · 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work · 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team · 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.
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REQUIREMENTS - Accreditation in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). - Substantial experience post qualification in a relevant field of practice
DESIRABLE - Evidence of post qualification training in clinical supervision
Access to own transport is recommended as this post involves occasional travel to sites across West Sussex. SPFT staff have the capacity to work from home remotely where clinically applicable and in agreement with your line manager.
MAIN DUTIES · To provide high-quality specialist systemic psychotherapy to children, young people, families, groups and networks of care, within and across teams
· To hold and manage a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and client assessment, treatment and discharge, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
· To take clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
· To clinically supervise Systemic Psychotherapists, systemic practitioners, systemic trainees and other staff as appropriate.
· To provide systemic consultation, mentorship and supervision to team and service members and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate.
· To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of Family Therapy and systemic practice within Horsham CAMHS, and to the team’s operational policies and services
· To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.
Clinical:
· To formulate and implement highly specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining formulations and hypotheses.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
· To provide specialist Family & Systemic Psychotherapy perspectives, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans and to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across relevant settings and agencies.
· To undertake risk assessment, formulation and management for individual clients with complex presentations. · To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning client assessment, formulation and treatment plans and to monitor progress during uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
· To promote and participate in multi-disciplinary team working, development and liaison.
· To act as a care coordinator or lead practitioner as appropriate
· To promote actively, user and carer involvement in care planning and service development.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Please apply using the link in this advert. For more information explore the attachments and/or contact: Jan Parker, Principal Family & Systemic Psychotherapist: [email protected]
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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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Recognised accredited post graduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the relevant Appendix
- Professionally registered as specified in the appendix
Knowledge/Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (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
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
- 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 psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy 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
- Experience of conducting formal research, audit or service evaluation in a healthcare setting
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Jan Parker
- Teitl y swydd
- Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 03003040218
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