Family & Systemic Therapist - Banbury

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and newly qualified or experienced systemic family therapist, who will be able to work with our young people and their families and carers as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Come and join our thoughtful and reflective team within Getting More Help CAMHS in Oxfordshire. We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. 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 patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. We are a diverse team who support families in the Banbury, Bicester, Witney and Oxford City area. We have base sites in Banbury and Oxford and satellite sites in Bicester and Witney.
You will be part of an experienced and reflective multi-disciplinary team offering generic and specialist assessments.
Systemic thinking is highly valued in the team. You will offer systemic consultations to the team and wider services to support children and young people. You will supervise and support the multidisciplinary team in thinking systemically about complex cases.
To hold a protected family therapy caseload and actively support the family therapy clinic, with a reflecting team.
To provide specialist family therapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To plan and implement family therapy treatment or management of a client’s mental health problems using evidence based practice.
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 family .
To support the duty provision, taking part in the duty rota.
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, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.

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

Please refer the Job description for details