CAMHS - Registered Practitioner - Systemic Family Psychotherapy

This is a part time post for 30 hours a week. We are excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled and motivated CAMHS Specialist Registered Practitioner Systemic Family Psychotherapy to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This is a split role, combining clinical leadership within our Family Therapy provision with a generic CAMHS practitioner role, including care coordination responsibilities.

50% of time leading the Family Therapy Clinic, providing systemic assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families. 50% of time holding a core CAMHS caseload, including undertaking assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, and acting as Care Coordinator where appropriate. You will play a key role in embedding and sustaining a strong systemic offer within the service, while contributing fully to the wider multidisciplinary team.

• Provide a range of highly specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) and their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.
• Provide clinical leadership within the team and Family Therapy Clinic alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high-risk clinical formulation and decision making. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical safety needs and other complex/multi agency needs.
• Take lead Family Therapist role in weekly Family Therapy Clinic with support of wider FT reflective team and Family Therapy colleagues in service, providing live supervision of the clinic as required.
• Provide CAMHS specialist clinical safety assessments (including Self Harm assessments) and complex safety management planning as part of routine clinical work. This will include leading and actively contributing to multi-disciplinary clinical discussions and formulations.
• The voice of the child will be central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within peoples homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trusts priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

• Lead and deliver systemic family psychotherapy clinics.
• Provide specialist systemic assessment and formulation.
• Deliver family-based interventions for complex and high-risk presentations.
• Hold a defined caseload of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
• Act as Care Coordinator in line with service and CPA processes.
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management planning.
• Provide consultation and systemic thinking within the multidisciplinary team.