We have an exciting part-time opportunity for an 8a Systemic family psychotherapist and a rare Therapy Supervision, Consultation and Training Course that will allow for development of an in-team Family Therapy Clinic.
The Aquarius Adolescent Unit is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team including a dedicated full time Consultant Psychiatrist and Ward Manager, CAMHS nursing team, psychologist, occupational therapist, systemic family psychotherapist, social worker and support workers. The Wandsworth Local Education Authority provides regular teaching staff to the ward and the CAMHS Campus School as part of the Home and Hospital Tuition Service. We are an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team looking for a passionate systemic family psychotherapist to join us.
Aquarius ward operate as an integrated service with a single referral pathway for the local 5 boroughs, enabling the young person to access the level of care they require at different stages of their recovery and to retain links with their local area/
We have an exciting specialist part-time opportunity for a Band 8a highly specialised systemic family psychotherapist seeking experience in or who already enjoys working in an inpatient setting with children and young people.
We are looking for a committed systemic family psychotherapist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.
This role is open to a qualified Systemic Family psychotherapist with the following:
Qualification as Systemic Family Therapist registered with the UKCP
Experience of working with children and young people in a CAMHS or inpatient setting
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
The ability to efficiently manage a caseload
Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
Applications are invited from clinicians interested in joining this developing service.
About us
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1. To provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young persons care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.
8. To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
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