Senior Family Therapist

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/cares. 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.
The post holder will be based in the Emotional and Behavioral care pathway providing generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions to contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people and their families. They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and Eating Disorders and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions (NICE Guidance).
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Doing generic CAMHS assessments of children and young people referred to the Emotional and Behavioral team within a time frame
Formulate and implement care plan for the 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, careers, families and groups, within and across teams. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors
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Harrow CAMHS is based at Ash Tre Clinic, Harrow. The team is well established and is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work. Hillingdon CAMHS consists of four main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team, and Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g. schools). The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.
Doing generic CAMHS assessments of children and young people referred to the Emotional and Behavioral team within a time frame
Formulate and implement care plan for the 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, careers, families and groups, within and across teams. These will include long and short-term interventions as appropriate to need.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people.
Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Contribute directly and indirectly to a framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies.
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
Act as care coordinator/lead professional taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans.
Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people.
Be part of Community duty Rota in the clinic

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