Systemic Practitioner CYPMHSinwelwyn garden cityinwelwyn garden cityPUBLISHED TUE 11 MAR 2025

This highly sought-after post will appeal to those individuals who have successfully completed the Intermediate Family and Systemic Training or CYP IAPT Systemic Training Programs. and have a core profession relevant to working with Young People with mental health difficulties. You have an opportunity to extend and develop your systemic skills through work with individuals and families. You will join the specialist family therapy clinic to offer screen and reflecting team interventions and systemic consultations. You will also be part of the Trust wide systemic forum and have access to internal and external systemic CPD training opportunities. You will be based in a Children and Young People's Mental Health Service working with complex cases including neurodiversity, risk and systemic difficulties.

Although funding cannot be guaranteed, should you wish to continue your systemic training, you can apply for this training opportunity when it comes up.

Interviews will be on Wednesday, 2 April at Hoddesdon Health Centre

Job Responsibilities:

To join the multi-disciplinary CYPMH Service in the delivery of mental health care and risk assessment to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.

To deal with a range of clients and clinical situations, including those involving emotive communication and the need to apply initiative, tact and persuasion in the face of psychological resistance.

To offer systemically informed advice on clients' psychological care to individuals external to CYPMH working under supervision of an approved systemic supervisor or fully qualified Family / Systemic Psychotherapist.

Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CYPMH care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.

To facilitate clients and families in providing substantive feedback to the service using ROMs, Experience of Service questionnaires and other feedback mechanisms

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To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner to the parents, carers, professionals involved and CYP concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi- disciplinary care.

To liaise and maintain good communication with referrers and other professionals involved with CYP on matters of mutual concern regarding individual service users.

To work with other team members in implementing priorities and initiatives as agreed by the Community CYPMH Service Manager and Professional leads.

To have good working relationships with multidisciplinary colleagues

To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families, carers and other external agencies

. To work collaboratively with colleagues to develop and improve the service.

. To and comply with the operational policy of the team and all operational procedures.

. In conjunction with the local lead of Family & Systemic Family Psychotherapy and senior management team, identify and propose potential changes to work practices and procedures in own area of work and contribute to discussions on service wide and specialism issues.

To communicate to both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where clinical and/or organisational matters warrant concern or improvement.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to supportpractice in individual work and work with other team members to improve the quality of care provided to CYP and their families served by CYPMHS

To contribute to the development of the highest professional standards of practice in CYPMH and Family and Systemic Psychotherapy

Administration and Clinical Recording

To enter required data into the Trusts patient administration systems and to make use of data bases as directed by managers

To undertake administrative tasks in line with service requirements, making appropriate use of administrative support

To contribute to systemically informed learning that may be required to meet the demands and objectives of CYPMHS

To support the Trust wide Systemic & Family Psychotherapy Discipline in establishing standards and creating opportunities for research into aspects of systemic practice and mental health services.

To contribute to clinical audit as appropriate.

To ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive in line with Trust policy.

To work within the framework of CY-IAPT and to use Routine Outcome Measures as part of your work.

To record relevant information as consistent with Trust and Council record keeping policy.

To hold a caseload and receive clinical supervision from an approved systemic supervisor or fully qualified Family / Systemic Psychotherapist in accordance with Trust clinical governance standards and the codes of practice and ethical guidelines of Association for Family Therapy (AFT) and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

To attend clinical and professional supervision within the context of the Knowledge and Skills Framework.

To participate in a Personal Development Review and an annual Appraisal within the context of the knowledge and skills framework.

To attend Multidisciplinary CPD as agreed in job plan.

To attend Professional Meetings for Systemic & Family Psychotherapy discipline as appropriate.

To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, which may include electronic data entry and recording, report writing through the exercise of professional ethical standards and a continuing adherence to the professional codes of practice of the AFT and UKCP

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

This is an outline of the postholders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.

To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary CYPMH service, within the clinical governance structures and protocols of the service.