Systemic Psychotherapist

Bexley CAMHS provides specialist mental health care for children and young people from birth to 18 years with their parents/families/carers. We provide specialist assessment and treatment for children and young people with severe and enduring emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties. Specialist CAMHS has a responsibility to assist professionals working with children in universal services to enhance the capacity and capability of these services to identify and provide early intervention for children with mild to moderate mental health needs.

This is provided through support, advice, mental health consultation, training and joint clinical work. The service provides a responsive, timely and accessible service, targeted at those children, young people and their families who are most in need of specialist mental health services., These posts will provide: i) Assessments and multi-disciplinary clinical interventions for children, young people, their families and carers with moderate significant and enduring mental health difficulties.

The clinical work is short and medium term. ii) Care in partnership with the child's caring network - to advise and support where necessary. iii) Mental health advice, consultation, training and support to professionals working with children in order to enhance the capacity and capability of those professionals / services to identify mental health problems and provide early intervention of mild to moderate mental health difficulties.,

The full time Systemic Psychotherapist will join a team which provides a well-established, highly specialist service for young people in Greenwich. You will work with young people up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant and acute mental health difficulties. This post holder is situated within Greenwich CAMH Service. To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.

To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS. To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required. To contribute to the development, implementation, and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.

• Experience working with YP, risk, nhs 2+ yrs
  Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
  
  Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
  
  We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure
  unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.
  
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