Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist

at  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

The NHS has committed in the Long-Term Plan to improving care for children and young people with complications related to severe obesity. In the East Midlands 2.5% of reception and 4.7% of year 6 children are severely obese (BMI >99.6th percentile). NHS England have commissioned specialist Complications related to Excess Weight (CEW) clinics across the country to start to develop a systematic approach to gathering evidence and optimising treatment for this cohort. This is an exciting new role for a psychotherapist to be embedded within the hospital MDT to provide a comprehensive psychotherapy service to children, young people, and their families attending the new CEW service.
To ensure the systematic provision of highly specialist systemic and family psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, their families and/or carers within the Paediatric CEW Clinic at Nottingham.
To work autonomously within professional and trust guidelines and manage an individual caseload comprising particularly complex systemic assessments, treatment and consultation work.
To provide highly specialist assessment and therapy to patients diagnosed with severe obesity associated with complications and their families
To provide highly specialist advice regarding diagnosis and treatment to professional medical and nursing colleagues at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, CAMHS, external agencies eg. social care, schools
To undertake complex multi-agency work with outside agencies (for example community paediatrics, education, social care) and colleagues within the Trust.
To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist provision of specific projects and services under the supervision of the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric CEW Team at Nottingham.
To take responsibility for contributing to research, audit, policy and service development in line with clinical governance standards.
Additional duties of the job are listed in the job description.
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.
We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children’s Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
As one of the NHS Trusts identified in the New Hospital Programme, a programme of investment in NHS hospitals, we have extensive plans to improve our hospitals and the services we deliver for patients.
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