CAMHS Acute Systemic Psychotherapist inHaywards Heath inHaywards Heath PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

Are you a senior/ highly specialist family & systemic psychotherapist, currently working in CAMHS or Acute Adult Services, and looking for a new challenge by being part of the new CAMHS service?

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and innovative family & systemic psychotherapist to work within the CAMHS Acute Care Service. You will be involved in an exciting new development of the enhanced crisis / home treatment 7 day a week service, as an alternative to inpatient admission for Children and Young People experiencing acute mental health difficulties.

You will be part of developing the service to give children and young people living in Sussex a more appropriate and integrated range of services to meet their clinical needs. As the senior/highly specialised family & systemic psychotherapist you will be part of the clinical team to ensure that young people and their families receive timely, targeted assessment and effective family & systemic interventions.

The aim of the Sussex CAMHS 'hospital at home' is to provide an alternative to admission to support the local network around the young person (aged 12-18) whilst they are in the acute stage of mental health difficulties. You will be working closely with the Psychological Professions staff, as well as nursing, psychiatry, occupational therapy, psychologists, social worker and mental health practitioners.

Working as part of the Sussex CAMHS crisis and intensive home treatment service you will be responsible for offering family & systemic assessments, formulations and interventions. You will be joining a team which currently includes a Principal Psychologist, Consultant Family and Systemic psychotherapist, and a range of Psychological Professions. You will be supporting the professional and clinical supervision of these colleagues, and CAMHS colleagues as appropriate.

You will use your extensive clinical experience to assess and support the young person, alongside their parent and carer in order to enhance their clinical outcomes and quality of life. Delivering interventions, offering training and supervision to colleagues whilst being integral to multi-disciplinary working are central components of this role. With this, there is the opportunity to work across crisis, home treatment and inpatient care embracing a one service, system response to the care of young people in an acute phase who need intensive input from CAMHS.

The post is at band 8A and full time and covers Sussex-wide. We would consider flexible working patterns and job sharing opportunities for the ideal candidate(s).

SPFT provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex. The trust is rated as ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC.



SPFT encourages flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide.

You will receive supervision from the CAMHS Consultant family & systemic psychotherapists whose role covers the wider CAMHS services. You will have opportunities to network with Psychological Professionals across Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Perinatal and Early Intervention services in Sussex, as well as the wider Trust.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation

This Is An Excellent Time For Psychology Professions To Be Joining Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust As We Have Launched Our Strategy And Can Offer The Following To You

A commitment to improving matters of Equality, Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights for Children and Young people, their families and staff.

• The opportunity to participate in a range of quality improvement work and service innovations.
• Access to a wide range of training and CPD opportunities through
• The Psychological Professions Practice Networks
• The Leadership Programme for Senior Psychological Professions.
• Quarterly Psychology Professions CAMHS, Early Intervention and Perinatal Senior Leadership Forum
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Cavanagh Job title: Consultant Family & Systemic psychotherapist Email address: Telephone number:

Nicola Chainey (Head of service, CAMHS Acute and eating disorders)