Psychological Therapist or Family Therapist

The post holder will provide high quality systemic assessments, evidence based interventions and consultation to client systems including children young people their families, carers and professional networks. As a psychological therapy resource to the team, they will work collaboratively with CYP, families and multi-disciplinary colleagues to formulate effective care plans of intensive community support and interventions for CYP.

Provide specialist systemic assessment and interventions to CYP and their families with significant and complex problems in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescent's mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing research based evidence. This may include consideration of some of the following issues: risk, parenting, family breakdown, child protection, sexual abuse, serious mental illness in client or parent, childcare, family rehabilitation, and civil or criminal court proceedings.

This may include provisions of professional reports to other agencies including court where appropriate.

• Provide specialist treatment to both individual CYP and families, drawing on a range of models to meet individual needs and taking into account complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes when evaluating treatment options.
• Provide specialist consultation to children, young people and their families.
• Provide consultation, advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with complex, emotive and sometimes conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self-harm, violence, trauma and suicide risk.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management strategies.
• Work closely with the Team Manager for ICCS and relevant colleagues to develop specialist training, teaching and consultation in order to enhance systemic thinking and practice across the team and for the multi-agency professionals involved.
• Support with the line management and clinical supervision of staff within EL Crisis Services as required, in line with People & Culture policies.
• Contribute to wide team functions such as being part of service rotas' including duty and being involved in service development work such as audits, quality improvement, and research and service evaluation.

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live.

Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement.

A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the…