Systemic Family Therapist

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To provide a qualified systemic family therapy service within the Specialist Intervention Team, including assessment, care planning and therapeutic intervention. To provide consultation, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team who provide family based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
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To plan and organise a broad range of therapeutic activities or programmes, some of which are on-going, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.
The ability to deal with untoward situations that may suddenly occur within the clinical environment quickly and effectively with limited other clinical staff support to manage the situation.
To support the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic care plans by other team members, and share clinical responsibility for their delivery.
To ensure the provision of support to children/young people and their families/carers, which is likely to include frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances.
To plan and prioritise own clinical caseload, and respond to and adjust schedule of work when required. which may include crisis assessments in cases of self-harm in young people.
To make judgements on an individual basis involving highly sensitive and complex information and/or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and the comparison of a range of options, and to provide support to other team members regarding their clinical decision making and risk assessment.
To lead on appropriate aspects of service audit
To act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.
To be able to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance and CPA and demonstrates the ability to apply them in practice.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

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