Senior Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

To provide specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support.
The post holder will be the Sub-team Lead for the Neurodevelopmental care pathway. The post holder will be a senior member of staff and will hold clinical and operational responsibilities.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
The post holder will provide generic initial CAMHS assessments and interventions as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Family & Systemic Psychotherapist to join Westminster CAMHS. The post holder will provide a specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service.
The Sub-team Lead for the Neurodevelopmental care pathway will work in partnership with the Consultant Sub-team leads as well as Borough Leads and service manager to provide effective clinical leadership of the multi-disciplinary sub-specialty team. The post will require skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.
Providing specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers. To provide advice and consultation on their care to non-family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
There is a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. Were always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you’re at, there’s always a place for you at CNWL.
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Provide initial CAMHS assessments and contribute to MDT discussions from a systemic point of view.
Provide family therapy assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Be responsible for implementing a range of family therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy. These will include long and short term interventions as appropriate to need.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
Provide case management / care coordination for a caseload of children and young people following the service clinical models and specific guidance.
To facilitate clients and families in providing substantive feedback to the service using ROMs, Experience of Service questionnaires and other feedback mechanisms including FFT, patient support services and Datix.
feedback.
Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care

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