Family & Systemic PsychotherapistinLondoninLondonPUBLISHED WED 19 MAR 2025

The Paediatric Mental Health Team provides integrated care to children, young people and their families at Whittington Hospital. In partnership with our paediatric colleagues, we offer assessment, treatment and consultation across the outpatient services, children's wards, neonatal unit and emergency department.

We are looking for an experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our dedicated team for a year, covering a colleague's career break. The role will involve working closely with children, young people and their families who have both physical and mental health difficulties. Skills, experience and passion for working across a range of social and cultural contexts are essential.

• assessment, treatment and consultation with children, young people, families and their networks presenting to Whittington Hospital with physical and mental health problems

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MAIN DUTIES

1. Clinical:

to assess, formulate and devise treatment plans for referred children and families to deliver interventions using a range of generic and systemic models, applied in the hospital setting to work autonomously and independently in carrying out assessments and treatments to best meet children and families needs and in line with service practice, with the support and guidance of the PMHT Lead Clinician, Manager, Lead and multi-disciplinary team to hold and manage a caseload of children and families to provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to paediatric colleagues and other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, and treatment of children and families to assess and manage risk and safeguarding needs to contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary and joint assessments and treatment, when appropriate and agreed by the MDT to provide reports and communicate in a skilled, sensitive and timely manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of children and families

liaise with other health, social care, and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children and families from each service to gather outcomes and feedback for the treatment offered

2. Teaching, training and supervision

to continue to develop skills in systemic psychotherapy through training and clinical supervision to access regular continuing professional development and supervision as appropriatefor the role to supervise and manage others, where appropriate to provide training, advice, and consultation where appropriate as part of the paediatric multidisciplinary team, as well as social care, voluntary sector and education staff to take part in research, service evaluation and development to undertake project management, e.g., audit or service evaluation, in line with agreed service and department goals to utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-basedpractice in individual work and family work, and with other team members and inter-agency colleagues

3. General

to practice in a culturally competent manner, with understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion factors affecting access to mental health care to ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards ofpractice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training anddevelopment programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional andservice managers. to work flexibly and with initiative to meet the core aims of service delivery to children and families to contribute to the development and articulation of best practice within the serviceareas, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective practitioner, taking part inregular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagementwith current developments in the post holders area of specialism and in child mentalhealth and related disciplines to maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic dataentry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with Service and Trust policies and procedures to maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issuesof relevance to the service and client group to undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of thepost, as may be agreed with the service managers to attend Community CAMHS meetings and participate in the monthly Family Therapy Discipline meetings (takes place every first Wednesday of the month) as agreed withthe Head of Discipline and Service Manager

4. To be noted

This is not an exhaustive list of tasks; the employee will be asked to undertake other ad hoc tasks relevant with the scope and purpose of this role. This job description reflects the present requirements of the role, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post-holder.