Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (Band 7) with generic CAMHS experience to work within a multi‑disciplinary team in Harrow CAMHS. This part‑time permanent post is part of a well‑established systemic discipline where professional development and innovative work are actively encouraged. Harrow CAMHS is a dynamic, friendly service part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust.

We are committed to collaborative multi‑disciplinary work and have strong links with partnership agencies in the borough.

The post will be supervised by the Lead Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in Harrow Tier 3 CAMHS and line‑managed by the Principal/Lead Systemic and Family Psychotherapist. Harrow is a culturally diverse borough and we are keen to provide culturally appropriate services to families.

• Provide family assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate and implement care plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Implement a range of family therapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of systemic and family therapy.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management.

We are passionate about delivering first‑class patient‑centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. We recruit outstanding people who go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust. We seek to support our staff with opportunities to develop their careers and provide a diverse culture with opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorders, neuro‑developmental disorders, enhancement treatment, learning disabilities and more.

Provide specialist family therapy service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi‑disciplinary CAMHS service. Provide specialist family assessment and therapy to service users and their families/carers and advice and consultation on their care to non‑family therapy colleagues and the professional network involved in their support. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.

They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people, their families and carers.

Provide generic CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing specialist family therapy interventions and contribute to support plans for the care of children and young people with learning disability, young offenders, refugees and asylum seekers and eating disorders. They will also contribute to highly specialist assessments of children with complex mental health presentations such as ASD, OCD and eating disorders and support case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence‑based interventions.

They will also undertake parenting capacity assessment as part of a multidisciplinary court assessment service.

Provide advice and consultation to non‑family therapists in the service on family therapy and…